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Academic Case Management: Promising Interventions for Closing Achievement Gaps in Multicultural Urban Settings
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Van Kannel-Ray, Nancy; Zeller, Pamela J.; Lacefield, Warren E. – ERS Spectrum, 2009
This article explains how individual academic case manager intervention programs were implemented in three urban middle schools. Academic case managers helped students integrate their personal lives with academic expectations by helping students learn to cope with their own personal challenges with the goal of improving their academic performance.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Early Intervention, Urban Schools, Middle Schools
Meeting the Challenge of Closing the Achievement Gap: What Can We Learn from Urban, High-Poverty/Racially Mixed Schools?
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Daeschner, Stephen W.; Munoz, Marco A.; Barnes, Joyce A. – ERS Spectrum, 2004
This article describes lessons learned in a case study of three high-poverty/racially mixed elementary schools in Louisville, Ky. An approach that included: 1) setting specific, measurable goals, 2) frequent monitoring of student work, and 3) applying distributive leadership elements enabled two of the schools to significantly decrease the…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Poverty, State Legislation, Academic Achievement
Collaborating to Improve Instruction: It's about Time
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Zimmerman, Judith A.; Grier, Harriett L. – ERS Spectrum, 2005
The success of implementing school change is determined in large part by the effectiveness of building leadership and time utilization. This paper describes the changing role of an urban principal as her building moved from a traditional junior high structure to a more collaborative small-school structure involving interdisciplinary grade-level…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Time Management, Principals, Educational Change