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Download full textShira Mattera; Carolyn J. Hill – MDRC, 2024
The Ready for School, Ready for Life initiative in Guilford County, North Carolina, aims to support interconnected programs and services for young children and their families with the goal of having children enter kindergarten ready for learning. The initiative aims to strengthen connections among existing programs in Guilford County and provide…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Screening Tests, Infants
Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
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Direct linkJones, Giavana; Ostojic, Dragana; Menard, Jessica; Picard, Erin; Miller, Carlin J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Reading is typically considered a survival skill in our technology- and literacy-bound culture. Individuals who struggle with learning to read are at significantly elevated risk for a number of negative outcomes, including school failure, under- and unemployment, and special education placement. Thus, those who do not learn to read fluently will…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Reading Failure, Reading Programs
Kaldon, Carolyn R.; Zoblotsky, Todd A. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Previous research has linked inquiry-based science instruction (i.e., science instruction that engages students in doing science rather than just learning about science) with greater gains in student learning than text-book based methods (Vanosdall, Klentschy, Hedges & Weisbaum, 2007; Banilower, 2007; Ferguson 2009; Bredderman, 1983;…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation, Federal Aid
Gallagher, H. Alix; Woodworth, Katrina; McCaffrey, Teresa; Park, Christina J.; Wang, Haiwen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Improving teacher effectiveness is a key strategy to ensure student readiness for college and careers and to address achievement gaps and persistent low performance. In response to the new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS-ELA) the National Writing Project (NWP) created a professional development (PD) program to support…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Common Core State Standards
Popp, Patricia A. – National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2007
This handbook is the second volume in a publication supported by the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) to explore reading instruction for students experiencing high mobility as a result of high poverty. The initial document, "Reading on the Go! Students Who Are Highly Mobile and Reading Instruction," reviewed the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Reading Instruction, Supplementary Education, Poverty
Walking Eagle, Karen P.; Miller, Tiffany D.; Cooc, North; LaFleur, Jennifer; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
New Jersey After 3 (NJ After 3) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to expand and improve afterschool opportunities for New Jersey's youth. Using both public and private resources, it supports a network of youth-service providers that deliver afterschool services based on NJ After 3's program model. Under an agreement with NJ…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Program Content, Nonprofit Organizations
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Stambaugh, Tamra – Gifted Child Today, 2006
This article describes Project Athena, a Javits program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and developed through the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. Project Athena seeks to find ways to help impoverished children develop advanced skills in reading comprehension, literary analysis, and persuasive writing. Its…
Descriptors: Literacy, Poverty, Skill Development, Reading Comprehension
