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Deschamp, Philip – 1995
A survey of 150 schools in Western Australia asked principals, teachers, and parents about the extent to which the First Steps program literacy component was operating in their schools and their perceptions of the results of the implementation. The First Steps program is designed to support the development of literacy and numeracy among…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, High Risk Students
Fass-Holmes, Barry; Ciriza, Frank – 1996
The Reading Recovery (RR) program of the San Diego City Schools (California) has expanded over the last 5 years and now includes 38 schools. This report documents the program's short-term and sustained efforts to increase reading achievement and its central office costs. RR is a Title I-funded early intervention program that uses one-on-one…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans
Strang, William; von Glatz, Adrienne – 1999
Authorized in 1994, schoolwide programs are intended to enable high-poverty Title I schools to improve curriculum and instruction for all students without restricting services to only some students. Also part of Title I, the Migrant Education Program (MEP) supports supplemental instruction and support services for qualifying migrant children. In…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Assessment
Russell, Christina A.; Reisner, Elizabeth A.; Pearson, Lee M.; Afolabi, Kolajo P.; Miller, Tiffany D.; Mielke, Monica B. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2006
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) launched services under its Out-of-School Time (OST) Programs for Youth in September 2005, with the award of funds to support more than 500 programs across New York City. Together, DYCD and the city's nonprofit community, working closely with the New York City Department of…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Program Implementation, Politics of Education, Employed Parents
Nettles, Saundra Murray; McHugh, Barbara; Gottfredson, Gary D. – 1994
This is the third report from the evaluation of the Multicultural Education Program in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), a major effort to address racial and ethnic diversity in a middle school. Section 1 of the report provides background on the multicultural education movement and the aims of the Pittsburgh program. Section 2 describes the status of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1994
This publication provides the basic statistics needed to illustrate the impact of North Carolina's Basic Education Program (BEP), an educational reform effort begun in 1985. Over 85% of the positions in the BEP are directly related to teaching and student-related activities. The new BEP programs result in smaller class sizes in kindergartens and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Counties, Educational Change
Quimper, Barry E.; Claus, Richard N. – 1993
An evaluative study was done of the supplemental education delivery system in reading and mathematics in the School District of the City of Saginaw (Michigan) at 28 schools. At the elementary school level the system includes push-in and pull-out programs in reading and mathematics and in reading intervention that served 2,494 students in grades…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Sinclair, Beth; Gutmann, Babette – 1992
This report summarizes the 1989-90 State Performance Reports for the Chapter 1 Basic Grants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and the Chapter 1 State Agency Neglected or Delinquent Program. The Neglected or Delinquent Program served youths in state-operated adult and juvenile correctional facilities and facilities for neglected children. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Delinquency, Educationally Disadvantaged
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 2001
This report provides 2000-2001 information on funding, staffing, facilities, and enrollment at all Washington State community and technical colleges. It also includes demographics on student characteristics, enrollment, graduation, and transfer rates. Highlights include: (1) the colleges enrolled the equivalent of 158,192 full-time students; (2) a…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, College Faculty, College Transfer Students
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Baker, Ron – 1997
In 1997, a survey of distance education activities was distributed to all 32 Washington State community and technical colleges measuring number of courses, total seat counts, and quarterly full-time equivalent students (FTES). Survey findings included the following: (1) within individual distance education implementations, telecourses and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Correspondence Study, Distance Education
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2008
In 2008's Public Chapter 863, the General Assembly directed the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) to work with the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Board of Regents to facilitate "universal articulation" of lower division "transfer paths" to baccalaureate majors. This legislation builds on a 2000 Act…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges
Shapley, Kelly; Sheehan, Daniel; Maloney, Catherine; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2009
The Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP), created by the Texas Legislature in 2003, was based on the assumption that the use of technology in Texas public schools could be achieved more effectively by "immersing" schools in technology rather than by introducing technology resources, such as hardware, software, digital content, and educator…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Technology Integration, Academic Achievement
Millett, Susan; Lindwall, Will – 1996
In February 1988 the Board of Education of the San Diego City Schools (California) adopted a core curriculum for all district schools. The implementation of this policy was studied in 1990 and 1992, and again in this followup study. Part I of this report provides an analysis of student enrollment and achievement data from 24 selected sites and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Core Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
New York Chapter of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, New York. – 1998
The New York Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) studies of public schools continue with this report on course work for gifted students and public middle school students in general. Fourteen ACORN volunteers made 52 visits to 28 schools studied in 1996. Findings from these visits and the review of school system documents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Black Students, Disproportionate Representation
Thayer, Donald, Ed. – 1989
This report describes fiscal year 1989 activities of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and other federal agencies in meeting the legislative mandates of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The first section of the report covers general provisions relating to the Office of the Commissioner, "American Rehabilitation" (RSA's…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Agency Cooperation, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
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