Peabody College Leadership, Policy, and Organizations: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)Under the terms of the NCLB Waiver, each state was required to identify and label the lowest-performing five percent of schools for "priority" status. Districts were offered four models from which they could choose: external ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017)Birmingham-Southern College, a small, private, liberal arts institution in Birmingham, Alabama, asked for an evaluation of their academic advising program. Anecdotal evidence, as well as the findings from a Vanderbilt ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018)Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and affiliated with the Mennonite Church USA. The institution enrolls 1,880 students; approximately ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is one of twenty-three universities in the California State University (CSU) system and is a highly diverse, four-year, public university located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)Tennessee has set ambitious student achievement goals for itself that include increasing students' levels of achievement and decreasing achievement gaps. A strategic plan, Tennessee Succeeds, codified these goals in October ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-04-19)Over the last decade, an increasing number of school districts have focused on school finance reform as a critical component of school improvement initiatives. One approach - known as student-based budgeting, student-based ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-04)This study explores the most effective approach for designing an educational ecosystem for a fledgling master-planned community that is grounded in an array of industry, community, and higher education partnerships. More ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)Regarding adult learners Kasworm (2008) aptly stated, "learning is an act of hopeÓ (p. 27). Adult learners" (those classified as students over the age of 24) motivation for pursuing higher education is a story of hope in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018)This report was requested by Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to examine teachers' perceptions of district-level professional learning experiences in Metro Nashville Public Schools. In analyzing how teachers think ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)The Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association (TICUA) asked us to explore why adult students, individuals age 25 and over, in Tennessee choose to enroll in private nonprofit institutions like their ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)In the last three decades, career academies have grown in popularity as a mechanism to bolster high school students’ college and career readiness. Career academies offer small learning communities, project-based/work-based ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)The Tennessee Charter School Center (TCSC) formed in 2013 through the merger of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator and the Tennessee Charter Schools Association. The TCSC combines the functions and resources of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)To understand and enhance the adult student retention rates, Dyersburg State Community College (DSSC) contacted the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University to have graduate students conduct a study of the adult student ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05-23)This mixed-method capstone project examines district-level strategies designed to create a strong sense of belonging and personalized learning in the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, KY. Our research focused ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)The Sterling Ranch Development Company is developing 3,400 acres of land in Douglas County, Colorado. This open range along the Colorado Rocky Mountains will be home to 40,000 people and 12,000 homes at its full development. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)On average, more than a quarter of all entering first-time, full-time students do not return to their institution for a second year. One in five fail to persist at all. Yet, “of the 45 percent of students who start college ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-04)This project is a one‐year investigation of the nature of academic supports afforded to limited English proficient students in the Jefferson County Public Schools district in Louisville, KY. Surveys, interviews, observations, ...
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