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National Center for Educational Communication (DHEW/NIE), Washington, DC. – 1973
This program initiated by the Central Cities Educational Development Center was designed to offer experiences which lay the groundwork for intellectual development and school achievement to underprivileged children two to five years of age. The Center has assumed a somewhat different composition and focus in each of the four years of its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
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Davenport, Sandra V.; Arnold, Mitylene; Lassmann, Marie – Reading Improvement, 2004
The purpose of this study was to determine if cross-age peer tutoring of fifth graders with learning disabilities and kindergarten students would have an effect on reading attitudes and reading achievement. A tutoring program was designed to meet the literacy needs of fifth grade special education resource students as well as provide enriching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Kindergarten, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
Empirical Education Inc., 2006
The authors conducted an experiment during the 2003-2004 school year to determine whether "On Our Way to English" ("OWE"), a product to help elementary students learn to read and speak English, was more effective in a California and a Texas school district than materials already in place. In the California study, 384 English…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Students
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The "2011 State…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
McDonald, Robert B.; Bethel, Lowell J. – 1994
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the knowledge regarding marine organisms and their feeding relationships of fourth grade residents of one coastal and one inland community in south Texas and to generate grounded theory concerning the participants' construction of such knowledge. Four male and four female students were randomly…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Geographic Regions, Grade 4
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1979
Ideas and suggestions to help teachers provide creative and aesthetic experiences for elementary children are presented in this document. This guide is meant to be used for upgrading present programs as well as for providing new ones. The document outlines the goals and objectives of an art program at the elementary level; the role of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Facilities
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Curriculum Development. – 1980
Instructional guidelines for grade 3 objectives being tested by the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) are presented. The guidelines are designed to be helpful to primary grade teachers in clarifying expectations regarding the TABS tests. Looking at the grade 3 basic skill descriptions will indicate what students in kindergarten through grade…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Mathematics
Klein, Stephen P.; Hamilton, Laura S.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Stecher, Brian M. – 2000
Texas students have made extraordinarily large gains on statewide achievement tests, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), gains so dramatic that they have been dubbed the "Texas miracle." There is general agreement that these gains are attributable to the high stakes accountability system in Texas, but there is some question…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, National Competency Tests
Barker, Daniel A.; And Others – Small School Forum, 1983
Describes four small school programs, i.e., curriculum enrichment through use of volunteer instructors, "Saturday Class" assignments for disciplinary purposes, elementary science classes visiting high school classes, and improving basic instruction through meaningful inservice programs. (AH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Enrichment, Discipline, Educational Innovation
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Monk, Sarah K. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1995
Describes how a first-grade class in East Texas learned to garden in a project that allows children to plant seeds and watch their plants mature while developing skills in mathematics, science, reading and writing, and interpreting a calendar. (SW)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Experimental Teaching
Pino, Carol – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
Ninth graders in a six-week reading improvement class at San Marcos High School (Texas) acted as tutors in an elementary school. The ninth graders' self-confidence, attitude, and attendance improved dramatically, but their own progress in reading did not, because of the short duration of the project. (DM)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, High School Freshmen, Peer Teaching
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Tellez, Kip – Bilingual Research Journal, 1998
Analysis of longitudinal data on approximately 11,000 limited-English-proficient elementary students in Texas found that course placement in English-as-a-second language (ESL) or bilingual education was uneven and resulted in language learning disruptions and possibly in lower achievement. However, the school data does not allow much useful…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
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Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G. – Education Next, 2004
Experienced teachers are, on average, more effective at raising student performance than those in their early years of teaching. This gives rise to the concern that too many teachers leave the profession after less than a full career and that too many leave troubled inner-city schools for suburban ones. Until now, the roots of these problems have…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Salaries
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Barroso, Cristina S.; McCullum-Gomez, Christine; Hoelscher, Deanna M.; Kelder, Steven H.; Murray, Nancy G. – Journal of School Health, 2005
School-based programs offer an efficient means of promoting the health of a large number of children. The Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) program was designed to decrease risk factors for chronic disease in elementary school children and includes separate coordinated interventions for child nutrition services, physical education (PE),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Child Health, Risk, Nutrition
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Carson, Diane E. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2005
Childhood obesity is on the rise and there is no indication that the trend is reversing. To reverse this trend, it is critical that children develop and foster healthy eating behaviors and physical activity patterns to help reduce the risk of developing long-term chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and others. One…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Education, Child Health, Health Programs
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