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Wu, Margaret; Donovan, Jenny; Hutton, Penny; Lennon, Melissa – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2008
In July 2001, the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) agreed to the development of assessment instruments and key performance measures for reporting on student skills, knowledge and understandings in primary science. It directed the newly established Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Science Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Maryland State Department of Education, 2006
On June 9, 2003, the Task Force on the Education of Maryland's African-American Males was convened by the Maryland K-16 Leadership Council (chaired by the University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan, former Maryland Acting Secretary of Higher Education John A. Sabatini, Jr., and Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S.…
Descriptors: Social Environment, School Readiness, Males, Expulsion
Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), a technology-based program for early elementary grades, was provided through Arizona all day kindergarten funds to kindergarten students in 15 Title I elementary schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in the 2005-06 school year. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Gray (Naomi) Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1984
The training manual is designed to accompany "The Story of California," a set of bilingual instructional materials for limited-English-proficient, native Spanish-speaking students in urban middle schools intended to ease their transition into comfortable use of English while maintaining Spanish language skills. The manual is to be used…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Instructional Materials
Bryant, Bunyan; Jones, Alan H. – 1993
This handbook focuses on five long-standing correlates for effective schools postulated by the late Ron Edmonds. Edmonds searched long and hard for those variables that were present in successful inner-city schools populated primarily by African American children. His work demonstrated that it is possible to educate so-called hard-to-reach…
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Education, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Kopacsi, Rosemarie; Hochwald, Eve – 1998
A collaborative project of Bank Street College and the Newark Public Schools, the New Beginnings initiative was designed to bring about progressive restructuring of kindergarten classrooms. This study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the impact of the initiative on curriculum, professional development, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution
Arnot, Madeleine, Ed. – 1985
This reader is one of four parts of the Open University (in the United Kingdom) Course E333, "Policy-making in Education." The ten articles included focus on the patterns of race and gender inequalities in British education, and the methods used by central and local government and educational institutions to address those inequalities.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
Fairbairn, Kerry; Pegolo, Catherine – 1983
Six case studies of foreign language programs in diverse Australian secondary schools conducted as part of an effort to learn the state of secondary level foreign language instruction are presented. The studies were conducted through administrator, teacher, and student interviews, on-site observation, and verification of the final report by the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Catholic Schools
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1981
A Ford Foundation program funded individual institutional programs focusing on higher education access and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of learning problems, and information services to help individuals make program choices. Three institutional programs are reported. In…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Basic Skills
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Edwards, Daneell – Afterschool Matters, 2005
The term "doing hair" is utterly familiar. However, while the term can refer to simple acts of combing, brushing, washing, and styling hair, in the culture of adolescent African-American girls, doing hair is a social practice that represents power, creativity, and sometimes popularity. This article describes a three-month afterschool…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Adolescents, After School Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This second part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February and March 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 17 pieces of testimony on the special needs of vocational education in rural and urban areas. Persons giving testimony included representatives of the following institutions: Houston…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Barnes, Keith D. – 1980
This resource booklet contains an operational appraisal instrument for use in evaluating the program effectiveness of secondary school guidance and counseling activities. It first presents criteria for exemplary guidance programs, which form the basis for the evaluation. Program areas appraised by this instrument include philosophy and objectives,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Education, Consultation Programs, Counseling Services
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Patten, W. George – 1979
A study (1) identified curricular areas administrators of vocational education considered helpful in strengthening managerial and administrative skills and (2) solicited response to special service areas considered helpful in expanding the delivery of postsecondary vocational education to the structurally unemployed and undereducated. From a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrators
Walsh, John; Breglio, Vincent J. – 1976
Major purposes of the urban cooperative work education programs study were to assess the effectiveness of secondary and postsecondary cooperative education programs in the nation's hundred largest cities and to analyze the postprogram experiences of both participants and nonparticipants. Thirty case studies were compiled from 19 secondary and 11…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors
Draa, Virginia Ann Bendel – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the implementation of a mandatory uniform policy in urban public high schools improved school performance measures at the building level for rates of attendance, graduation, academic proficiency, and student conduct as measured by rates of suspensions and expulsions. Sixty-four secondary…
Descriptors: School Uniforms, School Policy, Program Implementation, Context Effect
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