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Lovett, Maureen W.; Lacerenza, Lea; Borden, Susan L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
This article describes PHAST (for Phonological and Strategy Training), a research-based remedial reading program that focuses on the primary obstacles to word identification learning and independent decoding that most students with reading disabilities face and the steps necessary to help these children achieve independent reading skills.…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonics, Phonology
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Quintero, Elizabeth; Huerta-Macias, Ana – School Community Journal, 1993
Project FIEL, Family Initiative for English Literacy, was designed to provide participatory literacy and biliteracy development opportunities for (Hispanic-American) families in El Paso. This article discusses program goals; theoretical perspectives; project design rationale; population characteristics; curriculum development, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Hispanic Americans
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Larter, Sylvia; Donnelly, James – Educational Leadership, 1993
Benchmarks are designed to demystify educational goals and illuminate the nature of good performance for teachers, students, and parents. Since 1987, the Toronto Board of Education has developed over 100 language and mathematics benchmarks at grades 3, 6, and 8, combining observation with holistic evaluation. Instruction, learning, and evaluation…
Descriptors: Accountability, Benchmarking, Boards of Education, Educational Objectives
Fipp, Mary E. – Equity and Choice, 1994
Describes implementation of a whole-language approach in a middle school that has a majority of students for whom English is a second language. The transitional English program for sixth graders used high-interest, high-action novels in combination with a writing program and portfolios. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Grade 6, Language Skills
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Pinnell, Gay Su – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Describes the implementation and evaluation of an early intervention program, Reading Recovery, designed to help young, at-risk children become writers. Research evaluation results in New Zealand and in the United States and a case study of a five-year-old child are presented. (BB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Kelliher, Margaret F. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Describes community service learning (CSL) programs at Pottenger School, Springfield (Massachusetts). The kindergarten through grade-12 school, a literature-based whole-language school, integrates CSL into the curriculum through writing about student experiences. CSL projects have included feeding the homeless, corresponding with a soldier, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Citizenship Education, Community Programs, Elementary Education
Newman, Denis; And Others – 1993
In the fall of 1990, seven teachers at the Ralph Bunche School, a public elementary school in Harlem (New York) began an experiment in school restructuring they called the Computer Mini-School. An unexpected outcome of the project was an increase in standardized test scores among their 120 students. This outcome is explored. It is argued that the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Educational Change
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
A family literacy demonstration project was conducted to offer family literacy classes in three public schools in Philadelphia. Instruction was offered for 2.5 hours per day 4 days per week for parents of kindergartners and first graders from January to June and for parents and children together in July. The project was designed to help adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Family Involvement
Wilcken, Lois – 1992
The Middle Level Demonstration School of the New York City Public Schools, in operation since September 1991, is committed to creating a middle school in which both students and teachers are active participants in a supportive learning community characterized by high standards, mutual respect, and cooperation. Parents are seen as important members…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Interaction