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Calderone, Cynthia; Bennett, Susan V.; Homan, Susan; Dedrick, Robert F.; Chatfield, Anne – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative study, funded by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) through Just Read, Florida!, was to investigate the use of Tune in[TM] to Reading, an innovative reading intervention, with struggling adolescent readers in the juvenile justice system. One hundred and three students who exhibited issues ranging from…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Residential Institutions, Secondary Education, Antisocial Behavior
Thomas Kyle Wallace – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2001 brought about a multitude of education reform policies for education institutions that made the future of Career and Technical Education's (CTE) role in secondary educations unclear. These mandates forced educational leaders to emphasize student enrollment in tracks that prepare them…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Davis, Jon D.; Shih, Jeffrey C. – School Science and Mathematics, 2007
Research on student achievement within the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP) at the secondary level is beginning to accumulate, however, much less is known about how prepared these students are for post-secondary education. Therefore this study involving students within one tracked…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Placement, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
WestEd, San Francisco, CA. – 2002
The Secondary School Literacy Project (SSLiP) is a partnership between the Bay Area Coalition of Essential Schools (BayCES) and the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd (SLI). SSLiP is a professional development and capacity building program for teams of teachers in the BayCES network of schools. During the 1999-2000 school year, seven school…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Reading Comprehension
Williams, Natasha J.; Noble, Julie P. – ACT Inc, 2005
This study investigated school-level benefits of using the PLAN program over time. Outcome variables included the average gain in ACT Assessment scores, the proportion of students whose ACT scores achieved college readiness benchmarks, and the proportion of students who took particular patterns of college preparatory coursework in high school.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Student Evaluation
Allen, Joseph P.; Philliber, Susan – 1991
An evaluative study was done of the Teen Outreach Program, a national, multi-site effort to reduce teenage pregnancy, school failure, and dropout. The study sought to identify the critical "active ingredients" of the program responsible for its success. The study was based on analyses of data collected at 114 different sites nationally,…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention