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Shore, Rebecca A. – School Administrator, 2009
Within America's school systems, sometime between kindergarten and secondary education, a wide variation appears among the achievement levels of different children. The learning gap between high-achieving high schoolers and dropouts is certainly no secret to educators. Huge sums of federal funds and foundation support have been injected into K-12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Dropouts, High Achievement
Immroth, Barbara; Ash-Geisler, Viki – 1995
The U.S. National Education Goals were enacted into federal law in 1994 as the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act." The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin is addressing the first of these goals, which states that by the year 2000 all children will enter school ready to learn. This paper…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Language Usage, Learning Readiness