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Hess, Frederick M.; Squire, Juliet P. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2009
What to do about persistently low-performing schools is a pressing challenge for policymakers and educators across the nation. Schools that fail to make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) for five consecutive years under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) must be "restructured". The 3,500 schools in the United States currently in…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Anderson, John Albert – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This quasi-experimental study strives to ascertain whether the change from a public school traditional calendar to a modified or year-round calendar effects academic achievement in English and mathematics. The twelve public elementary schools, not U.S. Department of Defense schools, in the core of this research are identified only as serving…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Academic Achievement, Statistical Significance