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Slaby, Robert M. – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1980
Describes a California high school program called Students Exploring, Analyzing, Researching, Caring, and Hoping (SEARCH) that uses teacher-counselors and an individual curriculum. (JM)
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Counseling Services, Individualized Programs, Nontraditional Education
Cox, June – G/C/T, 1982
The article describes four schools that use a continuous progress or nongraded approach to pace gifted elementary students. Article inserts present information on the Richardson Study (a national study of gifted education) and guidelines for developing continuous progress and nongraded models. (SW)
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Demonstration Programs, Educational Methods, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedCharlesworth, Rosalind – Young Children, 1989
Discusses four educational methods designed to deal with the risk of kindergarten failure. Methods include increased provision of prekindergarten programs; adoption of a later school entrance age; a developmental placement system; and a continuous progress plan with multi-age groupings. (BB)
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Early Childhood Education, Educational Methods, Failure
Ervin, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
In Bangor, Maine, a seamless, continuous-progress performance assessment in reading is evolving--all because 24 first-grade teachers objected to using standardized achievement tests. Teachers have developed the Bangor Assessment of Reading (BAR), a triennial process of assessing fluency, meaning construction, comprehension, reading strategies, and…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Grade 1, Performance Based Assessment, Primary Education
