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Spencerport Central Schools, NY. – 1987
During the 1982-83 school year the Spencerport (New York) Central School District began a comprehensive project to study the effective schools research and its implications at all levels of a suburban school system. A leadership planning team (consisting of teachers, principals, and district personnel) participated in a series of workshops and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning
Spencerport Central Schools, NY. – 1986
This document is the third annual status report of the Spencerport (New York) More Effective Schools/Teaching Project. Section 1 describes nine documents developed during the project; identifies persons participating in the project; states the applicability of effective schools research to all levels of a suburban school system; and sets forth the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Definitions, Educational Assessment
Spencerport Central Schools, NY. – 1986
This document presents an overview of the design and implementation stages of a Spencerport (New York) project, designed to improve the educational program and student learning in each building in the district. The first section describes the project's goal for each building, which is that (1) 95 (or greater) percent of all students should…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competencies, Program Design
Download full textCitron, Christiane H. – 1983
This brief report states that legal problems with competency testing have been more procedural than substantive-more concerned with implementation than legitimacy. The right to notice is the most straight-forward and firmly established principle to emerge from competency testing litigation. Students must have fair warning and opportunity to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Legislation
Wyoming State Dept. of Education, Cheyenne. – 1982
This handbook is designed to help local school districts to implement the November 8, 1980, State Board of Education policy requiring school districts to identify individual student needs in reading, writing, computation, and civic and economic responsibility and to provide assistance to those students. The Wyoming approach to minimum competency…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Holmes, Wendell P., Jr. – American School Board Journal, 1986
Describes 11 effective steps taken by the Duval County (Florida) school board to improve the academic achievement of minority students, as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test. Programs include eliminating social promotion, developing tests of essential skills and minimum skills, involving the family, and helping with personal problems. (IW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Community Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Liebowitz, Marty; Robins, Amy; Rubin, Jerry – 2002
This document describes a research study of the status of basic adult literacy services in New England, particularly the inadequate link between adult basic education (ABE) and work- force preparation programs. The report describes a system that has failed to adapt to the region's increased need for articulation among English as a Second Language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Articulation (Education)
