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Stephany Renee Carr – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Reading Recovery is a first-grade literacy intervention program with notable short-term benefits, but there are sustainability studies that highlight inconclusive evidence of its enduring success. It was unclear if formerly enrolled Reading Recovery students continue to have long-term literacy skill retention after exiting the literacy…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Grade 4, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Lehnen, Robert G. – 1993
Each year when the Educational Testing Services releases state average SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores of high school students, Indiana officials are asked why Indiana ranks so low and what's being done to improve it. Leaders reply that scores are lower because more students take the test than in states with higher scores. This report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, College Entrance Examinations, Evaluation Problems
Garber, Michael P.; Heet, Justin A.; Styring, William III – 1999
Extensive testing data from federal, state, and private sources indicate that Indiana students underperform their peers in most other states. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the shortcomings of Indiana students relative to students elsewhere are most severe among students from middle- and upper-income families. Forty percent of 3rd-graders, 52…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Family Financial Resources
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Parr, N. Carlotta; Radford, Jan; Snyder, Susan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1998
Describes a Michigan City, Indiana initiative called "Kaleidoscope," a multilayered school improvement plan encompassing four goals: (1) to infuse arts into language arts and math curricula; (2) to foster collaborations between classroom teachers, arts specialists, and the community; (3) to build greater multicultural connections and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change