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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
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"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
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McElravy, L. J.; Hastings, Lindsay J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
The transfer of leadership to younger generations is an important factor in agricultural communities and is likely one reason developing leaders is a central mission of many youth organizations, including 4-H and FFA. In adults, researchers have extensively explored the relationship between personality traits and leadership (Judge, Bono, Ilies,…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence, Youth Programs
Olson, Mark E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this study, the researcher sought to determine whether Nebraska teachers and administrators agreed about what constitutes sound grading practice. The results of this study indicated that Nebraska teachers and administrators working in public schools in 7th-12th grade settings did not always agree about what constituted sound grading practice.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Grading, Public Schools
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Harris, Sandy; Isernhagen, Jody – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2003
Explored where bullying occurred, what kind of bullying happened, how often bullying occurred, and whom students confided in when bullying occurred at school. Surveys of rural 9th and 10th graders indicated that bullying was a very real part of their daily lives. Nearly 75 percent reported some type of bullying at school, and many observed…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 10, Grade 9, Rural Schools
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Cox, H. A.; Stephens, L. J. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 2006
A study was conducted on high school students, comparing those with some music credits to those with none. No statistically significant difference was found in their mean math grade point averages (GPA) or their mean cumulative GPAs. Students were then separated into two groups based on the number of music credits. Students who had earned at least…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Grade 9, Grade 11, Credits
PARRISH, EDWIN H. – 1964
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO GATHER AND EVALUATE PERTINENT INFORMATION CONCERNING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN METROPOLITAN OMAHA, NEBRASKA. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED BY QUESTIONNAIRE FROM EIGHTH GRADERS, NINTH GRADERS, 12TH GRADERS, 1963 GRADUATES, DROPOUTS, PARENTS, LABOR UNIONS, APPRENTICES, AND BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS. STUDENTS IN THE EIGHTH…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Dropouts, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections