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Effective Implementation of a Comprehension-Improvement Approach in Secondary Schools. Summary.
Levine, Daniel U.; Sherk, John K. – 1990
This document summarizes a report on the implementation and impact of instructional strategies to improve students' comprehension skills at three diverse urban secondary schools. While activities and characteristics varied, educators at all three locations were implementing local variations of a school-improvement approach based on the use of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Effective Implementation of a Comprehension-Improvement Approach in Secondary Schools.
Levine, Daniel U.; Sherk, John K. – 1990
This report describes in depth the implementation and impact of instructional strategies to improve students' comprehension skills at three diverse urban secondary schools. While activities and characteristics varied, educators at all three locations were implementing local variations of a school-improvement approach based on the use of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Implementation of Reforms to Improve Comprehension Skills at an Unusually Effective Inner City Intermediate School.
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Levine, Daniel U.; Sherk, John K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1989
Describes reforms at a Bronx intermediate school which registered large gains in students' comprehension performance. The success depended on active, engaged learning, intensive assistance for low achievers, personal development of students, coordination of instruction, availability of instructional support personnel, outstanding leadership, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Comprehension, Educational Change
Reforms That Can Work.
Levine, Daniel U.; Ornstein, Allan C. – American School Board Journal, 1993
A number of recent approaches to instruction appear to improve the thinking skills and academic performance of low achievers. Lists six steps to successful reform and an additional six strategies focused on alienated low achievers. Provides information sources for programs described. (MLF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education