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Direct linkWilliams, Jessica; Sarchet, Thomastine; Walton, Dawn – Community College Review, 2022
Objective/Research Question: Students with disabilities, including deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students, are enrolling in college at rates higher than in the past with most of them pursuing an associate's degree. For DHH students, their reading ability is a predictor of their academic achievement in college. However, more than half of DHH…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, At Risk Students, Deafness
Download full textSteven M. Urdegar; Kareem D. Piper – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2023
This report examines the implementation of Summer 305, an enhanced summer program that operated from June 14 through August 5 during the summer of 2022 at 113 sites in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Twenty program offerings were provided to accelerate learning recovery, develop foundational skills, and address social and emotional…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Remedial Instruction, Social Emotional Learning, Reading Instruction
Boschert, Barbara N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
At-risk students arrive on community college campuses lacking the proper preparedness to cope with the complexity of assigned reading. This study investigated whether using metacognitive prompts could improve both the metacognition and reading comprehension of at-risk community college students in a Western Civilization I class. The use of…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students
Steven M. Urdegar – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2022
This report examines the implementation of Summer 305, an enhanced summer program which operated from June 14 through August 5 during the summer of 2021 at 179 sites in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Eighteen program offerings were provided in a variety of physical and virtual delivery modes. Summer 305 was comprised of a suite of…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Public Schools, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning
Houston Independent School District, 2019
In 2017-2018, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) launched Achieve 180, a program centered upon a comprehensive action plan to increase student achievement at 45 schools, including the 27 schools that received the Texas Education Agency Campus Accountability rating of "Improvement Required" (IR) in 2016-2017 and 18 former IR…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, School Districts, Educational Environment
ACT, Inc., 2016
The "Condition of College & Career Readiness 2015" is the ACT annual report on the progress of US high school graduates relative to college readiness. This report provides a national snapshot of academic performance among African American students in the 2015 high school graduating class who took the ACT® test and addresses questions…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Readiness, Career Readiness, African American Students
ACT, Inc., 2016
This report is the ACT annual report on the progress of U.S. high school graduates relative to college readiness. This year's report shows that 64% of students in the 2016 US graduating class took the ACT test, up from 59% in 2015 and 49% in 2011. The increased number of test takers over the past several years enhances the breadth and depth of the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Core Curriculum, College Preparation
