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Lilles, Elena; Furlong, Michael; Quirk, Matthew; Felix, Erika; Dominguez, Karin; Anderson, Mona – California School Psychologist, 2009
The transition into kindergarten is important because it sets the foundation for future academic achievement. Identifying a child's readiness at school entry and intervening appropriately facilitates positive academic outcomes. The Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile (KSEP) is a school district developed universal screening measure used to…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Child Development, Academic Achievement, Profiles
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Lipp, Ellen; Jones, Brad A. – CATESOL Journal, 2011
In this pilot study, participating Hispanic and Southeast Asian freshmen took a writing-intensive history survey course with a weekly analytic journal task. The study examined the helpfulness of the weekly journal and the scaffolding steps provided by the professor and teaching assistants, by peers in their learning community, and by out-of-class…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students, College Freshmen, Journal Writing
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Arenas, Rosie A. – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2008
Books written and illustrated by Chicano authors and illustrators give young Chicano students a different perspective to life that contrasts that of traditional school textbooks. They depict life as it was and continues to be. However, during the past few years, educational policy and law in California has imposed a strong focus on the teaching of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Textbooks, Mexican Americans, Cultural Awareness
LaBarbera, Robin; Soto-Hinman, Ivannia – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
A significant number of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) who attend partially or fully integrated classrooms in the United States in increasing numbers, show distinctive difficulties in reading comprehension and difficulty acquiring the foundational oral language skills necessary for reading development. In this paper we describe a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Oral Language, Language Skills
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Beal, Carole R.; Adams, Niall M.; Cohen, Paul R. – Urban Education, 2010
The study focused on the relationship of English proficiency and math performance in a sample of high school students, including 47% English language learners (ELLs). Data sources included state math test scores, study-specific pre- and posttest scores, problem solving in an online math tutorial, and responses to a self-report assessment of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Problem Solving, English (Second Language)
Center on Education Policy, 2010
This paper provides information about California High School Exit Examination, a comprehensive standards-based exam. The purpose of the exam is to: (1) Determine prospective high school graduates' knowledge and skill levels relative to those needed for entry-level employment; (2) Determine prospective high school graduates' mastery of the state…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academic Failure, High School Graduates, Exit Examinations
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Montelongo, Jose; Herter, Roberta J.; Ansaldo, Robert; Hatter, Naomi – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article presents a lesson cycle of activities for teaching reading and writing skills for expository text. The lesson cycle consists of four parts: (1) vocabulary words, (2) text structures, (3) modified sentence completion activity, and (4) rewriting text. Sixth- and seventh-grade summer school students were taught to recognize and…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Reading, Vocabulary
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de Oliveiria, Luciana C. – History Teacher, 2008
Being a teacher is a multifaceted process situated in contexts that deeply influence one's experiences and development. History teachers face a number of challenges while simultaneously holding particular goals for history teaching. Drawing on interview data from focus teachers with different levels of teaching experience, this article presents…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Teaching Experience, History Instruction, History
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Pacheco, Mariana – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This case study of reading activity in third-grade bilingual classrooms at a state-sanctioned "successful" school examines the influences of the California accountability framework--Proposition 227, No Child Left Behind, and the federal Reading First program--on shifting beliefs and practices around what "counts" as reading.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education, Reading Achievement, Bilingualism
Thomas, Gregg; Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2009
Throughout the world, interest in gauging learning outcomes at all levels of education has grown considerably over the past decade. In higher education, measuring "learning outcomes" is viewed by many stakeholders as a relatively new method to judge the "value added" of colleges and universities. The potential to accurately…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Measurement Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Majors (Students)
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Robertson, Lisa – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2007
In this article, the author shares her journey with evidence-based reading instruction. Her experience with evidence-based reading instruction (as the adult basic education coordinator at Windham Adult Education in Windham, Maine) has been a journey of change both professionally and programmatically, and the students at Windham Adult Education are…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Pilot Projects, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators Foundation, 2009
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) 21st Century Retro: For All the Emphasis on…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Newsletters, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Palmiter, Andrea S.; Arcaira, Erikson R.; White, Richard N.; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
Since the 2003-04 school year, Save the Children, U.S. Programs, has supported programming designed to improve reading skills among struggling students in rural areas. The literacy program includes both afterschool and in-school interventions with small groups of children. These are implemented by well-trained paraprofessionals and are designed to…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education
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Thompson, Gail; Madhuri, Marga; Taylor, Deborah – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Two pressing education reforms entail improving students' reading skills and improving high schools in the United States. In this article, the authors focus on both of these issues by adding the voices of students in an underperforming high school to the discussion about reading reform. We present the results of a larger study pertaining…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Educational Change, Reading Skills
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H. Lee Swanson; Rollanda O'Connor – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
The authors investigated whether practice in reading fluency had a causal influence on the relationship between working memory (WM) and text comprehension for 155 students in Grades 2 and 4 who were poor or average readers. Dysfluent readers were randomly assigned to repeated reading or continuous reading practice conditions and compared with…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Short Term Memory, Grade 2
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