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Download full textHanks, Dorothy – 1996
School choice for poor children is likely to be an issue in many state and congressional races. Lawmakers and parents need to pay close attention to the quality of academic evaluations of school choice programs. Evaluations of the program in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) provide a case in point. In 1990, Milwaukee instituted the nation's first publicly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Vouchers
Houston Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Accountability. – 1997
The Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program was developed to provide an education for students who were expelled from school or who were adjudicated to attend an alternative school. The program was operated by the Harris County Juvenile Board, but the Houston Independent School District contracted with the county to place expelled students…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Delinquency, Expulsion
Peer reviewedFantuzzo, John W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1995
Urban at-risk elementary school students (n=72) who experienced both parent involvement (PI) and reciprocal peer tutoring interventions or the PI intervention alone reported higher self-concept and greater gains in mathematics achievement than students in practice control conditions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students
Webster, William J. – 1998
This study reports the results of the implementation of Project SEED, a mathematics program for urban elementary school students, in five urban districts: Camden (New Jersey); Dallas (Texas); Detroit (Michigan); Indianapolis (Indiana); and the West Contra Costa Unified School District in Richmond and San Pablo (California). Students exposed to at…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Algebra, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Weiler, Jeanne – 1998
Success for All (SFA), a schoolwide research-based reform model developed by Robert Slavin and his associates at Johns Hopkins University, is based on the premise that all students can and must succeed in the early grades. The program targets students in the lower grades, providing them with intensive instruction in language arts. This effort is…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Research
Fruth, Marvin J.; Yee, Albert H. – 1971
The purpose of the Integrated Black History Institute was: (1) to educate administrators and teachers; and (2) to develop units of instruction on the black man's contribution to American history. Historians, curriculum experts, media specialists, teachers, principals, and curriculum supervisors participated in the construction of the units. Eight…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change
McHugh, Barbara; Stringfield, Sam – 1998
This report provides background, implementation, and diverse outcome data from the first 3 years of an ongoing effort to implement a highly specified school reform design in a high-poverty, urban elementary school, Woodson Elementary School, Baltimore (Maryland). The design that is being implemented is the Calvert School model. The Calvert School…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
