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Direct linkAlliance for Excellent Education, 2009
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Informing Adolescent Literacy Policy and Practice": Alliance Brief Offers Lessons Learned from Federal…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropouts, Literacy, Accountability
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Time to "Learn": Comprehensive Literacy Bill Introduced in Congress; (2) "Teaching for a New…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Public Education, Educational Policy
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Urban Renewal: New Alliance Research Shows U.S. Urban Economy Will Grow By Billions of Dollars If High School Dropout…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Young Adults
Download full textMaine Township Diagnostic and Remedial Learning Center, Park Ridge, IL. – 1970
The Maine Township Diagnostic and Remedial Learning Centers were established to provide educational, diagnostic, and remedial services to selected students who were so handicapped by their inability to make use of the communications skills, particularly reading and writing skills, that their school experience became one of frustration and failure.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Dropouts, Inservice Teacher Education, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedFisher, Douglas; Ivey, Gay – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
Struggling adolescent readers need interventions that provide them with opportunities to read more and to read better. The authors examine two case studies of interventions at work and propose criteria on which to evaluate intervention programs. Their review of the evidence on these programs for struggling adolescent readers suggests that at least…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education, Adolescents
