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Download full textGray, Rosemarie – 1985
This review of research, part of the Illinois State Board of Education's Early Childhood Education Policy Study, focuses on issues related to potential state funding for full-day kindergarten and changes in the age at which children enter kindergarten. Specifically addressed are the following issues: (1) a review of the legislative background on…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement, Birth Order
Helmich, Edith – 1985
This report, one of several background papers for a comprehensive policy study of early childhood education, examines the effects of preschool experience on Illinois children from low income families. The 1980 U. S. Census for Illinois identified 81,959 preschool-age children (3 to 5 years old) from poverty-level families; 54 of these young…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Early Experience, Economic Factors
Whaley, Margaret – 1985
The purpose of this report, one of several prepared for a comprehensive study of early childhood education in Illinois, was to collect, compile, and analyze specific data concerning early childhood education policy and practices from all fifty states. Each state was queried regarding the following: (1) compulsory attendance age, (2) mandated…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Age Grade Placement, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
Chicago Board of Education, IL. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
The 1984 "Introduction to High School" program provided seven weeks of academic training for about 600 underachievers in reading and/or mathematics at six Chicago high schools. Evaluation findings indicate that (1) the process of student selection and program implementation during the 1984 program was markedly better that that of the 1983 initial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Meredith, Vana H. – 1981
The aim of the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program was to meet legislative requirements, to improve instruction and to integrate instructional sensitivity into the state's educational programs for grades K-12 in the basic skill areas of reading, writing and mathematics. In their task of identifying, compiling and revising educational…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Newman, Anabel P. – 1980
As part of a longitudinal study, student and parent interviews were conducted to collect data on the research question, "What is the impact of literacy on the occupations/schooling of 20 1976 high school graduates who had been classified as low readiness students in the first grade?" Of the 20 students originally in the "Twenty Lives" longitudinal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Followup Studies, Learning Readiness
BROWN, JUDITH; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1966 ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE OF THE PORTLAND, OREGON, COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION, INCLUDED TWO ADDRESSES BY DR. MORTON BOTEL AND 27 DISCUSSION SESSIONS CENTERED AROUND THE THEME "DEVELOPING THE MATURE READER." BOTEL'S ADDRESSES FOCUSED ON THE DEFINITION OF A MATURE READER, THE ROLE OF THE…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, High Schools
Bureau of School Systems (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Div. of Education for the Disadvantaged. – 1980
This handbook offers practical suggestions on how parents can be better teachers at home and help their children learn better at school. Ways in which parents can work with the schools to insure the best possible education for children are discussed. The first of five sections deal with parents' rights and responsibilities in relationship to their…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Responsibility, Elementary Education, Home Study
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1974
This report describes and evaluates a bilingual early education intervention program, designed to provide children with successful experiences, using the concept of responsive environment in language development (English and Spanish) and in cognitive and affective development. Instructional, community-parental involvement, staff development, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Liikanen, Pirkko – Jyvaskyla Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, 1975
This book describes a study (conducted in Finland) which examined antecedent conditions for the development of creativity in children and evaluated a kindergarten activity program designed to increase children's creativity. Subjects were 168 kindergarten children (86 girls and 82 boys). Extensive information about each child's family was gathered,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Comparative Analysis, Creative Activities, Creative Art
Moore, Kristin; Brown, Brett; Halle, Tamara; Pitzer, Lindsay; Calkins, Julia – 2002
In 1999, South Carolina's First Steps to School Readiness was launched as a comprehensive early childhood initiative to improve childrens school readiness by improving the efficiency and coordination of existing services to children from birth to age 5 and their families, and by providing new services where gaps are identified. A legislatively…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Community Programs, Counties
2003
This document presents the learning goals for children participating in Georgia's prekindergarten program. Twenty-three learning goals with accompanying subgoals are delineated in the following areas: (1) language development; (2) mathematical development; (3) scientific development; (4) creative development; (5) physical development; and (6)…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Objectives, Emotional Development, Language Acquisition
Thompson, Charles L., Ed.; Cunningham, Elizabeth Kolb, Ed. – 2000
This first annual report details North Carolina's performance and progress in five areas of its First in America goals: high student performance (every student in school and making strong progress, every graduate ready for college and work, and every school accountable for student learning); every child ready to learn (every child with access to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Day Care, Educational Environment
Nievar, M. Angela; Fitzgerald, Hiram E. – Online Submission, 2005
The goal of the Success By Six program was to provide seamless, universal services to young children in a rural county in order to prepare them for a successful kindergarten experience. The process evaluation describes the implementation of interventions in the community and collaborations of community agencies. This rural community faced a number…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Formative Evaluation, Parent Participation, Community Involvement
Darby, Linda; Dorfman, Cynthia Hearn; LeGrand, Bob; Miranda, Simone; Sheedy, Christopher; Silverman, Kim; Vespucci, Barbara – 1997
This pamphlet is designed to serve as a prompt for principals and teachers to help them anticipate questions parents might ask when they send their children to school for the first time or when they enroll their children in a different school. The pamphlet can also serve as a checklist for parents as they become involved with their children's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Family School Relationship, Inquiry
