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Direct linkEdwards, Matia, Ed. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2016
"Gauging Progress, Accelerating Pace" is the seventh biennial report to SREB states on their progress in meeting SREB's Challenge to Lead goals for education. Each customized state report documents progress on both measurable outcomes and state policies. Through effective policy implementation, the goals can help states drive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Middle Schools, High Schools
Download full textMcGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY. Educational and Professional Publishing Group. – 2002
This publication tells the stories of eight schools from around the nation that have used the Open Court Reading program, describing the history of the schools, the challenges they faced, and their attempts to meet those challenges. The schools are located in California, Florida, Texas, and New York. Each of the school stories includes a focus on…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Faculty Development, Instructional Leadership
Spillman, Carolyn V.; And Others – 1994
Noting the general lack of research on handwriting instruction, a study examined hand and eye dominance, hand positions, and handwriting production of children. Subjects were 310 children from grades one through five in classrooms of regular children, mainstreamed team teaching classrooms, and self-contained gifted classes in a large elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handedness, Handwriting, Lateral Dominance
Elligett, Jane K.; Tocco, Thomas S. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to assess the reading growth of pupils in the Pinellas County (Florida) Reading System (PCRS) as compared with pupils in other types of reading programs. Data on 757 children in the target schools and 768 children in the comparison schools was analyzed. The conclusions reached in this evaluation were: that this study…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Program Evaluation
Mendenhall, Susie B.; And Others – 1976
This document written in Spanish describes a personalized reading program and discusses the results of its implementation. The focus of this approach to reading is based on the individual child and his feelings. This model personalizes the child's reading material in the classroom. In personalizing the reading material, the child's attitudes…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Oral Reading, Program Content, Program Descriptions
Markham Elementary School, Pompano Beach, FL. – 1967
The communications program developed by Markham Elementary School personnel of Pompano Beach, Florida, is planned so as to utilize fully the diagnostic and team approach to learning. Instruction in communications skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing, handwriting, and spelling) is structured by sequential achievement phases which allow the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Evaluation
Ballator, Nada; Jerry, Laura – 1999
The 1998 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) state level reading assessment measured fourth- and eighth-grade students' reading proficiency in situations that involved reading for three purposes: reading for literary experience, reading to gain information, and reading to perform a task (grade 8 only). This report describes the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Jerry, Laura; Lutkus, Anthony – 2003
This report provides selected results from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for Florida's public-school students at grades 4 and 8. Since 1992, reading has been assessed in four different years at the state level (at grade 4 in 1992 and 1994, and at both grades 4 and 8 in 1998 and 2002). Florida participated in all of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2006
On July 28, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Secondary Education
