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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Open-enrollment"”.
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Parental Selection of Public Elementary Schools in an Open Enrollment System
… this study who are leaving the district through open enrollment. Non-district resident parents seeking transfers to a district school reported convenience of the school as the most important reason for requesting a transfer. District resident parents were more likely to report the most important …
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Open Enrollment in Advanced Placement Courses: Experiences of Traditional and Non-Traditional Students
… and that secondary schools should not limit AP enrollment based on prerequisites such as teacher recommendation, GPA, and class rank. As a result of these factors, the AP program began to see dramatic gains in the number of students enrolled in its courses over the past decade. With the rapid …
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A Case Study on Open Enrollment: Reimagining the Future of the Small Rural School
… who are focused on increasing inter-district open enrollment in K-12 schools as a means of combating declining enrollment in rural schools. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the factors that may impact parents’ decisions to open enroll their children in a school …
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Superintendents' perceptions of the impact of open enrollment on public school districts in Indiana
… and analyzed superintendent perceptions of open enrollment in Indiana public schools. Superintendents are uniquely positioned to be at the forefront of open enrollment trends and must work to balance the issues associated with the transfer of students in and out of the local district. The …
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Analysis of Special Education Compliance and Special Education Funding in Four Texas Open-Enrollment Charter Schools.
… examination of special education services in open-enrollment charter schools in north Texas and to examine relationships between special education compliance and funding. Six questions guided the research: How have the charter schools designed special education services, and do these services …
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Open-enrollment charter school laws and special education: A study of state and local policies in Texas
This study is a review of open-enrollment charter school laws in the State of Texas to document how needs of students in special education are addressed in accordance with Texas charter school statutes and practices. It includes a background on charter schools in Texas, a survey report of key …
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Navigation and social learning among first semester retained university students : exploration of programs and experiences at a comprehensive, public, open-enrollment institution
Retention is an important measure of success (Tinto, 1999); therefore, student success is an area of interest among professionals in the field of higher education (Hunter, 2006; Rendon, 1995). This qualitative study sought to understand how first-year students navigate the university and aimed to …
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Educational orientation of adult and traditional students in community college vocational programs
… in this country. Due in part to their open enrollment structure, the nation's community colleges have been among the first to experience this influx of nontraditional learners. Many of these returning students are seeking to further their education for employment-related reasons, and …
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Impacts Of Transportation And Population Upon Western North Dakota School Consolidation
… be the school board members plus patrons; and 4) open enrollment is not so important. Similar issues exist in other rural areas experiencing energy booms, which is why this research has applicability beyond western North Dakota.</p>
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A qualitative instrumental case study investigating the interrelatedness of adult learning theory, targeted professional development, and the creation of professional learning communities during the implementation of an elementary school improvement model
Federal school reform mandates and open enrollment policies have challenged U.S. public school leaders to find and implement innovative improvement programs. Research has shown effective professional development that is targeted to student, teacher, and school needs is essential to implementing new …
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A qualitative case study investigating the graduation and job placement outcomes of college students with autism spectrum disorder : implications for higher education leaders
… Disorder (ASD). Data collection took place at Open Enrollment Midwestern University, a pseudonym, through document analysis and interviews. Document analysis focused on the policies relevant to students admitted with disabilities, specifically ASD. Interviews were held with current students …
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Characterizing and evaluating student dropout through understanding student’s journey in a MicroMasters program
The latest evolution of Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) includes MOOC based programs where students across the world can complete a series of MOOC courses to achieve microcredentials. However, the high dropout problem in MOOCs also persists in MOOC based programs, with the additional …
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Researching Critical Incidents of Transformation
… from a population of 100 participants in an open-enrollment workshop, the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium produced by the Pachamama Alliance. The program employs high-impact training approaches to inform participants about social injustices and environmental practices that …
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Use of various health care providers and the associated clinical and humanistic outcomes in an ambulatory Medicare population
… Northern/Central California during the 2014 open enrollment period. Trained student pharmacists (working under licensed pharmacist supervision) provided beneficiaries with comprehensive medication therapy management (MTM) services. During each intervention, demographic, quality-of-life, …
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SCHOOL CHOICE, COMPETITION, AND MARKETING PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF A LARGE DIVERSE SUBURBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN TEXAS
… has existed for decades through school choice, open enrollment, and voucher programs. These concepts were foreign to the Texas public school system until the late 20th century. Because of an increase in competition and school choice, enrollment and state funding for public school districts in …
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An Analysis of Students' Perception of Biblical Community Within the Environment of Digital Media: A Mixed Methods Study
… a sample of teens that attend classical, open enrollment, and closed enrollment Christian schools of various denominations as well as no denomination. A survey presenting a list of the essential principles of biblical community, regardless of environment, including questions for each …
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The Effect of Mode of Instruction on Composition I Students at Des Moines Area Community College
… and writing in a way that addresses the needs of open enrollment community college students. The paradigm shifts in both reading and writing theory point to the social nature of language and indicate the need for linking these activities in useful ways. This project is a way of determining if a …
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A trend analysis of Ohio's state funding for public and nonpublic school students
… such as intradistrict and interdistrict open enrollment policies and a pilot scholarship program for low income children in the city of Cleveland. It has also been judged as maintaining an unconstitutional school funding system which has resulted in highly disparate educational …
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Understanding Transfer Student Pathways to Engineering Degrees: A Multi-Institutional Study Based in Texas
… While these efforts have moved the needle on enrollment and retention for undergraduate students in engineering, growth and improvement measures have started to taper in recent years. To meet current and future workforce demands for more STEM professionals in the United States, we must be …
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Web-Based Reading and Writing Instructional Tools: A Case Study of Student Perception and Satisfaction
… (TSIA) restricted students at a two-year, open-enrollment, technical college regarding the ease of use and usefulness of this type of web-based instructional. In addition, this study investigates the perceptions of instructors of underprepared college students about this type of …
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