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Wexler, Jade; Pyle, Nicole; Fall, Anna Maria – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Project GOAL is a systematic dropout prevention model including individual and peer-mediated group interventions for at-risk students. This article provides an overview of the Project GOAL model and describes a 2-year experimental pilot study of Project GOAL with a cohort of eighth-and ninth-grade students in a low-income school district in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Secondary School Students, Pilot Projects
Schellinger, Adam M.; Toby, Megan; Jaciw, Andrew P.; Zacamy, Jenna – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
Empirical Education Inc. is the independent evaluator of WestEd's 2012 i3 Development grant for Internet-based Reading Apprenticeship Improving Science Education (iRAISE). This interim report provides an update on the progress of the randomized control trial (RCT) during the 2014-2015 school year. The RCT measures the impact of iRAISE on student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Randomized Controlled Trials, Experimental Programs
Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Jang, Heeju; Nunes, Nicci; Stone, Elisa – Issues in Teacher Education, 2010
Recruiting, preparing, and retaining high quality secondary mathematics and science teachers are three of the most critical problems in the nation's urban schools that serve a vast majority of children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Although the factors contributing to these problems are complex, one area that has caught…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs