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Kolberg, Todd Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study uses an existing evaluation model and previously established measurement tools to evaluate the quality and success of Urban Compass, a private non-profit after-school program for elementary school children in the Watts district of Los Angeles. This evaluation had two major objectives. The first objective was to assess program quality by…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Program Evaluation, Urban Schools, Alignment (Education)
Carlisle, Joanne F.; Cortina, Kai Schnabel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The goal of the RF program, Part B of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), is to have all children reading at grade level by the end of third grade. There is no legislative precedent for this program, focused as it is on preventing reading failure in the early elementary years (US Department of Education, April 2002). Because the design of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Programs, Goal Orientation, Reading Achievement