Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings From an Evaluation at Six Community Colleges

Education and Literacy

Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings From an Evaluation at Six Community Colleges

Summarizes findings from Opening Doors Demonstration programs to raise college completion rates through financial incentives, instructional reforms, including learning communities, and enhancements in targeted student services such as academic counseling.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California;North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Education and Literacy;Government Reform

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Outlines how reduced federal support for states between 2012 and 2021 will affect Ohio's public services, including K-12 education, work study and aid for low-income college students, health and human services, food aid, and housing and urban development.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Education and Literacy;Government Reform

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Outlines how reduced federal support for states between 2012 and 2021 will affect Ohio's public services, including K-12 education, work study and aid for low-income college students, health and human services, food aid, and housing and urban development.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Education and Literacy;Government Reform

The Budget Control Act of 2011: Impact on Public Services in Ohio

Outlines how reduced federal support for states between 2012 and 2021 will affect Ohio's public services, including K-12 education, work study and aid for low-income college students, health and human services, food aid, and housing and urban development.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio

Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State, The

Education and Literacy

Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State, The

Is it time for Ohio to take bolder steps toward turning around its most troubled schools and districts? If so, what might the alternatives look like? Options for rebooting these troubled schools have come in the form of mayoral control, state takeovers, market competition through charter schools and other choice programs, as well as millions of federal dollars spent on "school turnaround", yet it seems that it might be time to try something new in Ohio. In looking for alternatives to simply doing more of the same, Ohio policymakers are looking to the experiences of other states. Among the boldest and most interesting of these is Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD), which is accomplishing both significant gains in student achievement and consequential impacts on district-level standards. In this recent report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute author Nelson Smith asks if and how the RSD concept might be a model for Ohio.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Ohio, North America-United States (Southern)-Louisiana

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