Students who succeeded in school are almost always supported by their families, while other students struggle without support from home. For a school to develop a partnership program involving all parents in ways that increase student success requires new ways of thinking about family and community involvement. All schools need a purposeful,…

This article features University Park Campus School, a 7-12 grade school in Worcester, Massachusetts. University Park was created through a partnership between Clark University and Worcester Public Schools. It opened in 1997 as a public school educational alternative for students from the challenging inner-city neighborhood directly adjacent to…

A Texas district shows what can be done when school-based staff developers work with teachers dedicated to improvement--student achievement improves in just one year. The author points out the factors that helped make it work and offers tips for traps to avoid. (Contains 10 charts.)

The 2005 National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conference marked the 20th year of work on critically important accountability topics by the UCLA institution, "a tremendous accomplishment for a research center," according to Aimee Dorr, dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.…

Chapter 1 In-Class programs are designed to improve the curriculum and instruction for Chapter 1 students, increase coordination and student time on task, enhance student self-esteem, and increase the student's academic achievement and test scores. This report describes a Chapter 1 In-Class Service model used within the Newark (Ohio) school…

The information in this update has been selected and presented because it appears relevant and useful to teacher trainers who are working with teachers to ensure that all students learn, as well as achieve, throughout their school experience. The sections of the update parallel the five major strands of the scope of work for the Theme E project.…

A study explored whether instruction involving an emphasis on study skills could help seventh grade students retain material encountered in science classes. Subjects were 32 students from two intact science classes in a predominately white, middle class school in New Jersey. The experimental group received an advance organizer as an overall…

The Ardmore, Oklahoma, School District developed the 3-year Pyramid Project to implement the following recommendations of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Study of exemplary programs for high ability students: (1) broaden the process for assessing student abilities, (2) adopt continuous progress and appropriate pacing, (3) cultivate students'…

This report presents an analysis and synthesis of student performance data collected through state-mandated testing programs. The common performance areas assessed were basic skills achievement. The unique performance areas assessed were content skills within a particular state. Achievement data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress…

The 1983-84 academic year marked the first year of the Biliteracy Skills Development Program at New York City's George Washington High School. Program students were all Hispanic and spoke Spanish exclusively at home. The major program goal was to facilitate the acquisition of English through the development of literacy in the native language, with…

The Austin Independent School District Office of Research and Evaluation (AISD-ORE) has recently completed a three year study of the effects of retention on elementary students. As in other studies comparing the academic achievement of elementary retainees and similar students not retained, findings indicated that promoted students generally show…

The most accepted theoretical model for explaining how school desegregation produces academic benefits for minority children assumes that (a) school desegregation generates intergroup and interracial contact which (b) enables the achievement related values possessed by white children to be transmitted to minority students, which in turn (c)…

THE APPLICATION OF GROUP COUNSELING TO EDUCATION WAS INVESTIGATED WITH RESPECT TO ANALYSES OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PERSONALITY INTEGRATION FOR USE WITH DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SOUND MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS. SUBJECTS WERE 15 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS, DIVIDED INTO 2 COUNSELING GROUPS AND CONSIDERED TO BE GIFTED UNDERACHIEVERS. EACH…

Analyzes teacher beliefs concerning academically at risk students in inner urban schools. Categorizes teacher beliefs on the following two dimensions: (1) whether teachers believe some type of instructional assistance could improve achievement or whether they ignore low performance; and (2) whether teachers assume the responsibility for improving…

Asserts that teachers should help students develop learning strategies, and describes how teachers' actions can increase students' success. Notes that, if students are given a "second chance" at completing their tasks, their chances of achieving academic success are improved. (MM)