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Phelan, Julia; Egger, Jeffrey; Kim, Junok; Choi, Kilchan; Keum, Eunhee; Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2021
The National Math + Science Initiative (NMSI) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving educational outcomes that traces its roots back to the early 1990s. NMSI's College Readiness Program (CRP) is a long-standing program with the goal of promoting STEM education in high schools to improve students' preparation for college. The three-year…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Nonprofit Organizations, Program Evaluation, STEM Education
Strategies for Scaling Up: Promoting Parent Involvement through Family-School-Community Partnerships
Hayakawa, Momoko; Reynolds, Arthur – Voices in Urban Education, 2016
Flexibility, creativity, and collaboration are required to successfully meet the needs of each school when scaling up family engagement programs across a diverse range of communities. Flexibility, creativity, and collaboration are required to successfully meet the needs of each school when scaling up family engagement programs across a diverse…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Creativity, Student Diversity
Kaufman, Sherry – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
In spring 2012, Sherry Kaufman, a consultant at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, was asked to support kindergarten teachers in deepening their practice of constructivism and exploring the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Central to such an approach is the belief that all learning is socially constructed through interaction…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent School Relationship
Hayakawa, Momoko; Englund, Michelle M.; Candee, Allyson; Lease, Erin; Sullivan, Molly; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
The Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center Education Program (MCPC) is a pre-K to 3rd grade intervention program aimed at improving economically disadvantaged children's school success by enhancing continuity in instruction and increasing parental involvement. Opened in Chicago in the 1960s, this school reform model has undergone significant…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, Intervention, Parent Participation
Guthrie, Kathy L.; McCracken, Holly – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
Development in the understanding and education of responsible citizenship is an important priority for higher education institutions. Evidence of this importance is expressed in the mission statements of many colleges and universities throughout the United States. As increasing numbers of students take advantage of distance education, it is…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Service Learning, Citizenship Education, Experiential Learning
Lee, Seon-Young; Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Peternel, George – Roeper Review, 2010
Good verbal skills are crucial for success in school and in many career fields. Project LIVE was a program of enrichment and acceleration focused on the development of verbal talent. It was implemented for 3 years with a group of middle-school students who indicated an above-grade-level reading proficiency and came from families having…
Descriptors: Talent, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Writing Skills
Deschenes, Sarah; Little, Priscilla; Grossman, Jean; Arbreton, Amy – Afterschool Matters, 2010
Adolescence is a period of rapid developmental changes. Only in the early years of childhood do individuals experience such a brisk pace of change. However, all too often, out-of-school time (OST) programs do not recognize how quickly the needs and interests of adolescents shift along with their developmental changes. Program staff know--and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Adolescent Development, Adolescent Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Afterschool Alliance, 2013
The Afterschool Alliance and MetLife Foundation are proud to celebrate a fifth round of the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Awards. For the past five years, we have collaborated to highlight the work of quality afterschool programs that support children, families and communities across the nation. This compendium is a compilation of four…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Middle School Students, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
Jones, Orville E., Ed.; Swan, Malcolm D., Ed. – 1972
At a meeting in DuPage County, Illinois, in April 1972, speakers representing the PTA, students, school teachers and administrators, outdoor education, the Illinois School Boards Association, and the Open Lands Project voiced enthusiastic support for introducing environmental education into the school curriculum. One of the County's several…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Support, Curriculum Development

Driscoll, Mark – Rural Educator, 1986
Discusses factors related to the success of a mathematics program selected for excellence by criteria that included student performance on standardized math tests and the intensity of involvement in extracurricular activities. Outlines characteristics of the school's rural farm community, administrative and teacher leadership, and the role of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competition, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Orr, Nate; Bodilly, Susan J.; Naftel, Scott; Constant, Louay; Scherer, Ethan; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Management Information Systems, Financial Support, Data

Gholson, Ronald E.; Buser, Robert L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Provides results of a survey concerning student activities programs in Illinois public high schools. (JM)
Descriptors: Athletics, Extracurricular Activities, High Schools, Program Descriptions
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Dept. for Exceptional Children. – 1973
The four Follow Through projects in Illinois are described and evaluated. These projects involve approximately 1,450 children in K-3 in Mounds, East Saint Louis, Waukegan, and Chicago. The Chicago project is subdivided into three individual projects and is trying three experimental programs. Emphasis is given to the nature of the environmental…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007
In the more than 10 years since the inception of EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Brownfields Program, brownfields have been redefined. Properties that were shunned or eyed warily by those with the resources to transform them are now viewed as dormant opportunities for economic and environmental rebirth. Communities that suffered aesthetic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Student Attitudes, Land Use, Hazardous Materials
Lowenthal, Barbara – 1984
A preschool intervention program for handicapped children in Wheeling, Illinois provides a noncategorical approach to developing positive self-concepts, which are thought to lead to greater success in learning. Referrals of children at risk for developmental delay come from a variety of sources, including parents, doctors, hospitals, and vision…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Handicap Identification, Individualized Education Programs, Intervention
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