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Interscholastic Sports: A Character-Building Privilege
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Lumpkin, Angela; Stokowski, Sarah – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
While interscholastic sports help young athletes enhance sport skills, physical fitness, self-discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork, time-management skills, self-confidence, and mental toughness, they also promote life skills and lessons and enhance academic performance as well. Coaches have a tremendous opportunity--and responsibility--to instill…
Descriptors: Extramural Athletics, Athletes, Personality, Personality Development
A School and Home-Based Bilingual Education Model (Grades 3-6): End-of-Year Evaluation Report, 1979-80 (Fifth-Year Evaluation Study).
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1980
A Clovis, New Mexico, project designed to develop over five years a model English-Spanish bilingual program for limited English proficiency students from nursery school through grade 6 did not fully meet its objectives during the 1979-80 school year, the project's fifth and final year. One hundred forty students enrolled in grades 3-6 in two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
A School and Home-Based Bilingual Education Model: End-of-Year Evaluation Report, 1978-79 (Fourth-Year Evaluation Study).
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1979
Designed to develop over five years a model bilingual program for nursery school through grade 6, the demonstration program provided early bilingual education intervention to facilitate the simultaneous learning of two languages and thus develop the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills of children with limited English speaking ability from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Developing Character: Transmitting Knowledge. Sustaining the Momentum for Reform in American Education. A Thanksgiving Day Statement by a Group of 27 Americans.
Thanksgiving Statement Group, Posen, IL. – 1984
A joint statement by 27 scholars, educators, and policymakers focuses on the question of character development in American education, as well as the general need to sustain the momentum of reform brought about by numerous national reports on education. Following an executive summary which presents a rationale for the statement, material is divided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Responsive Environment Early Education Program (REEEP). Final Evaluation Report, 1976-1977 (Second Year).
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Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1977
Formerly the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children, REEEP is an educational intervention program for "high risk" (of low birth weight) 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children, living in the Clovis, New Mexico area. Goals of REEEP, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III program, are: to prevent school failure…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs
Responsive Environment Early Education Program (REEEP): First Year Evaluation Study. Year-End Evaluation Report, 1975-76.
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Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1976
Formerly the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children, REEEP is an educational intervention program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old "high risk" (of low birth weight and with various handicaps) Spanish American children. Goals of REEEP, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III program, are to: prevent school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs