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Improved Middle Grades Schools for Improved High School Readiness: Ten Best Practices in the Middle Grades
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Bottoms, Gene; Timberlake, Allison – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2012
In 2009, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Committee to Improve High School Graduation Rates and Achievement, led by then-Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia, released a report of 10 key recommendations for ensuring more students graduate from high school, and they graduate ready for college and careers. Among these 10 recommendations was…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Graduation Rate, National Competency Tests, Middle Schools
Years of Transition: Times for Change. A Review and Analysis of Pilot Projects Investigating Issues in the Transition Years. Appendix To Volume Two.
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Leithwood, Kenneth; And Others – 1993
This appendix was created to minimize aspects of the data analysis carried out for the quantitative study of Transition Years Initiatives in Ontario (Canada) schools. Technical appendices for the multivariate statistical procedures used in this analysis were needed for chapters 5 through 9 of the main report. The bulk of these appendices are path…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools
Bridging the Gap: A Sheltered Approach to Language Acquisition and Academic Success. Third Evaluation Report (1990-1991). A Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Transitional Bilingual Program Funded under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in Torrance Unified School District, Torrance, California.
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Kester, Donald L. – 1991
Achievements made during the third year of a transitional bilingual program for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean middle school students in the Torrance Unified School District (CA) are reported. The project focused on four goal areas: student instruction, staff development, materials, and parent involvement and education. At each of the district's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Awareness