NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Hedrick, Amanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Shawnee State University (SSU) founded Project BEAR: Building Emerging and Achieving Readers, an AmeriCorps program, to support literacy development and improve school readiness in the Appalachian region. After the first 2 years of program implementation, areas for growth including enhanced service member recruitment, member onboarding, and…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Government, Volunteers, School Readiness
Achieve, Inc., 2013
This policy brief is a guide for state education policy leaders to use in selecting and prioritizing college- and career-ready student performance indicators. These indicators can be built into the state's accountability system through public reporting, statewide performance goals, school-level incentives, and accountability formulas used to…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Landry, Susan H.; Anthony, Jason L.; Swank, Paul R.; Monseque-Bailey, Pauline – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study compared effectiveness of "business as usual" to that of 4 professional development (PD) programs that targeted teachers of at-risk preschool children. A 2 x 2 design was used to cross mentoring and progress monitoring conditions among the 4 PD programs. Specifically, some teachers received both in-classroom mentoring and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mentors, School Readiness, Online Courses