Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 4 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Source
| Journal of Learning… | 1 |
| National Center for Education… | 1 |
| National Center for Research… | 1 |
| RAND Corporation | 1 |
| RMC Research Corporation | 1 |
| Urban Institute | 1 |
Author
| Aaron Douglas | 1 |
| Alan Hershey | 1 |
| Augustine, Catherine H. | 1 |
| Beam, Margaret | 1 |
| Bonnie Faddis | 1 |
| Bozeman, Velette | 1 |
| Brasseur-Hock, Irma F. | 1 |
| Christianson, Karen | 1 |
| Daniels, Rebecca | 1 |
| Duvel, Brenda | 1 |
| Edelstein, Sara | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Tests/Questionnaires | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 2 |
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
| Secondary Education | 4 |
| Elementary Education | 3 |
| Intermediate Grades | 3 |
| Junior High Schools | 3 |
| Middle Schools | 3 |
| Grade 5 | 2 |
| Grade 6 | 2 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| Grade 4 | 1 |
| Grade 7 | 1 |
| Grade 8 | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Location
| District of Columbia | 1 |
| Illinois (Chicago) | 1 |
| Kansas | 1 |
| Maryland (Baltimore) | 1 |
| Michigan | 1 |
| Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
| ACT Assessment | 1 |
| Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests | 1 |
| Iowa Tests of Basic Skills | 1 |
| SAT (College Admission Test) | 1 |
| Test of Word Reading… | 1 |
| Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 3 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 6 |
Direct linkAugustine, Catherine H.; Engberg, John; Grimm, Geoffrey E.; Lee, Emma; Wang, Elaine Lin; Christianson, Karen; Joseph, Andrea A. – RAND Corporation, 2018
Across the country, school districts, their stakeholders, and policymakers have become increasingly concerned about suspensions, particularly about suspending students from elementary school and disproportionately suspending ethnic/racial minority students. Suspended students are less likely to graduate, possibly because they miss the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Urban Schools, Suspension, Program Effectiveness
Download full textWang, Jia; Herman, Joan L.; Epstein, Scott; Leon, Seth; La Torre, Deborah; Bozeman, Velette – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2020
Engaged in the evaluation of LDC tools since June 2011, UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is using multiple data sources and a quasi-experimental design to examine LDC implementation and impact in two cohorts of schools in two large, urban school districts. This report presents the results…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Literacy Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Theodos, Brett; Pergamit, Michael R.; Hanson, Devlin; Edelstein, Sara; Daniels, Rebecca; Srini, Tanaya – Urban Institute, 2017
Senior year of high school can be a pivotal time in a young person's life. For some, it is the last step on the path to college and work. For others, finding stable employment or attending university after high school is far from guaranteed. Urban Alliance, headquartered in Washington, DC, helps students at risk of becoming disconnected from work…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Internship Programs, Mentors, College Readiness
Peer reviewedHock, Michael F.; Brasseur-Hock, Irma F.; Hock, Alyson J.; Duvel, Brenda – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Reading achievement scores for adolescents with disabilities are markedly lower than the scores of adolescents without disabilities. For example, 62% of students with disabilities read "below" the basic level on the NAEP Reading assessment, compared to 19% of their nondisabled peers. This achievement gap has been a continuing challenge…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities
Beam, Margaret; Faddis, Bonnie – RMC Research Corporation, 2012
The purpose of this evaluation of Scholastic's "System 44" conducted by RMC Research was to expand the existing research on students with learning disabilities by conducting a randomized study of struggling readers with approximately half of the sample comprised of students with learning disabilities. Specifically, this evaluation…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, Phonics, Decoding (Reading)
Susanne James-Burdumy; Wendy Mansfield; John Deke; Nancy Carey; Julieta Lugo-Gil; Alan Hershey; Aaron Douglas; Russell Gersten; Rebecca Newman-Gonchar; Joseph Dimino; Bonnie Faddis – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2009
This document reports on the impacts on student achievement for four supplemental reading curricula that use similar overlapping instructional strategies designed to improve reading comprehension in social studies and science text. Fifth-grade reading comprehension for each of three commercially-available curricula (Project CRISS, ReadAbout, and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Observation
