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Wagner, Mary M.; Sumi, W. Carl; Woodbridge, Michelle W.; Javitz, Harold S.; Thornton, S. Patrick – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2009
In implementing its Behavior Research Initiative, the U.S. Department of Education funded four Behavior Research Centers, each to test the efficacy of a separate intervention to improve the behavior of elementary school students with or at risk for serious behavior problems. The initiative also established the National Behavior Research…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Elementary School Students
US Department of Education, 2003
Volume II contains six appendices to Volume I, including short summaries of the 18 schools that were studied. Appendices included in this report are: (1) Evaluation Methodology; (2) Promising Reform Strategies; (3) Descriptions of the Research-Based Methods or Strategies Being Used; (4) Short Summaries of 18 Comprehensive School Reform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Government School Relationship, School Districts
Yin, Robert; Kim, Dawn – US Department of Education, 2003
Comprehensive school reform calls for a "whole-school" and coordinated approach to improve schools. The strategy differs from piecemeal and fragmented efforts that also in the past have seemed only to lead to short-lived changes. To stimulate whole-school reform across the country, Congress appropriated funds in FY1998 for the U.S.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness