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Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Fancsali, Cheri; Abe, Yasuyo; Pyatigorsky, Mikhail; Ortiz, Lorena; Chan, Vincent; Saltares, Eliana; Toby, Megan; Schellinger, Adam; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
The Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework was developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) two decades ago to help teachers provide the literacy support students need to be successful readers in the content areas. It has since reached over 100,000 teachers in schools across the country, at the middle school, high school, and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Program Implementation
Garcia-Navarrete, Sylvia; Sax, Caren; Levine, Joel – NADE Digest, 2012
The nature and role of developmental education classes are under tremendous scrutiny across the nation today. Specifically, students are entering community college and four-year institutions of higher education unprepared to understand and apply much of the reading material presented to them in college-level classes. This article describes the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Developmental Programs, Reading Instruction
Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Koedel, Cory – Public Policy Institute of California, 2010
The San Diego Unified School District, the nation's eighth-largest, launched an ambitious program of literacy reforms in 2000 aimed at narrowing reading achievement gaps. Known as the Blueprint for Student Success, the program ran through 2005. The reforms succeeded in boosting the reading achievement of students who had been identified as lagging…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gap, Program Evaluation
Llosa, Lorena; Slayton, Julie – Language Teaching Research, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how program evaluation can be conducted and communicated in ways that meaningfully affect the education of English language learners (ELLs) in US schools. First, the paper describes the Waterford Early Reading Program Evaluation, a large-scale evaluation of a reading intervention implemented in schools with…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Program Evaluation, Early Reading, Reading Programs
Pease-Alvarez, Lucinda; Samway, Katharine Davies; Cifka-Herrera, Carrie – Language Policy, 2010
In an effort to reverse the reading crisis purported to plague public education, schools and districts are mandating prescriptive reading programs and teacher-centered instructional practices in hopes of improving the academic achievement of minority students, including English learners (ELs). The wide-spread implementation of these programs in…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Academic Achievement, Student Interests, Second Language Learning
Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Llosa, Lorena – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Most K-12 evaluations are designed to make inferences about how a program implemented at the classroom or school level affects student learning outcomes and such inferences inherently involve hierarchical data structure. One methodological challenge for evaluators is linking program implementation factors typically measured at the classroom or…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Implementation
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Right to Read Unit. – 1974
This visitation form for the reading task force of the California Right to Read program consists of eight categories. "Needs Assessment" asks for information on student performance, teacher performance, resources, and decision making; "Reading Programs" includes philosophy, goals, objectives, and priorities; "Program…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Needs Assessment, Program Evaluation, Reading
1964
AS PART OF THE CONCERTED EFFORT TO ALLEVIATE READING PROBLEMS IN PROJECT SCHOOLS, LIBRARIAN SERVICES WERE PROVIDED TO ASSIST IN DEVELOPING READING PROGRAMS AND IN AIDING TEACHERS IN FINDING APPROPRIATE MATERIALS. FULL TIME LIBRARIANS WERE ASSIGNED TO THE TWO PROJECT SCHOOLS. THE PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO STIMULATE STUDENT INTEREST IN THE LIBRARY, TO…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Library Services, Program Evaluation, Reading Development

Nicoll, Paul – Evaluation Review, 1981
Technical aspects of the evaluation report are described and criticized as being determined by federal and state government regulations. The official evaluation report's unfortunate effects on the school are noted. It is suggested that the case study has revealed further serious weaknesses in mandated evaluation. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Federal Regulation
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Right to Read Unit. – 1974
The reading program planning procedures presented in this manual are based upon material developed by the National Right to Read Program. The contents include: "Introduction"; "Step One: Right to Read Center Data," which discusses the establishment of baseline data for a particular school; "Step Two: Needs Assessment…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Design, Program Development, Program Evaluation

California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Right to Read Unit. – 1974
This document consists of worksheets used by the California Right to Read program. The worksheets include "Student Performance Data by Class,""Student Performance Data" (for a given grade), "Summary: Data on Reading Program,""Summary: Reading Methods,""Teacher Skill Assessment Form,""Skill…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Needs, Personnel Needs, Program Evaluation
Kaufman, Maurice; Lynch, Mervin D. – 1971
The Beverly Public Schools Comprehensive Remedial Reading Program, funded under Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, was evaluated in the Spring of 1971. The program was comprised of Reading Laboratories using materials produced by Educational Development Laboratories, Inc. in three elementary schools, two junior high schools, and a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Program Evaluation
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. – 1970
Contents of this compendium of technical reports on 1969-1970 Los Angeles City School programs funded under ESEA Title 1 are organized by division. Division of Elementary Education programs include reading, mathematics, English as a second language, teacher-librarian, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, Follow Through, Intergroup Relations, Parent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Elementary Education
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