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Brunner, Josie – Online Submission, 2011
Students who attended Austin Independent School District (AISD) Read Prekindergarten School in 2006-2007 performed better than the state average on their Spring 2011 3rd grade math Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) and had a greater percentage scoring commended on math TAKS than did other AISD pre-K students or those assumed to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement
Reznichenko, Nataliya – Online Submission, 2013
The call for "mathematics for all" reaffirms the belief that all students should have equal access, equal educational experiences, and equal educational outcomes. Existing gap in students' mathematics achievement have long been coupled with the demographic categories of race and ethnicity, culture and language, SES and social class,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education
Brock, Daniele; Lambeth, Dawn – Online Submission, 2013
Gaps in achievement test scores continue to exist in students depending upon race, gender, income, and ethnicity according to the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an advocate for public schools. School districts and schools are struggling to close the achievement gap that exists. In the 2010-2011 school years, 34.4% of African American students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Hayden, Emily; Trainin, Guy; Javorsky, Kristin; Murphy-Yagil, Malinda; Cook, Kathryn – Online Submission, 2008
The 2007-08 Annual Report presents and analyzes the performance of students in Nebraska Reading First schools during the 2007-08 school year. Teacher log information is also presented, and a district performance comparison is made from the year just previous to Reading First implementation across the four years of implementation. [This report was…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Primary Education, Annual Reports, Academic Achievement
Trainin, Guy; Wilson, Kathryn – Online Submission, 2010
Reading First has been implemented in Nebraska since the 2004-5 academic year. In two rounds of funding and participation, schools have transformed the way they trained their teachers, measured student progress, and taught. This transformation is one of the hardest tasks in education and it has taken the considerable dedication of school personnel…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness, Educational Change
Ikegulu, T. Nelson – Online Submission, 2004
Background: The overall goal of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 is to close, by the end of the 2013-2014 academic year, "the achievement gap between high- and low- performing students, especially the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students and, between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers"…
Descriptors: High Schools, Ethnicity, Middle Schools, Equal Education