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Download full textBalu, Rekha; Malbin, Joshua – MDRC, 2017
Students learn or progress at their own paces. Each needs different amounts of support, at different points in a school career and at different times of the school year. Some need very little help to stay on track, while others are facing serious challenges in learning, in their behavior, or at home, and need significant interventions. It would…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Educational Practices, Academic Support Services, Intervention
Direct linkHess, Frederick M. – School Administrator, 2004
The author recently had the same conversation about local school reform with two superintendents--one from a large, urban district in the East and the other from a small district in the Midwest. Both superintendents were working with their respective boards to approve, design and fund reading initiatives consistent with the new federal guidelines.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Restructuring, Magnet Schools, Collective Bargaining
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Educational Leadership, 1996
Schools can reduce special-education and remedial instruction costs by helping students succeed in early grades. This article profiles several prevention and early intervention programs, including Success for All, Reading Recovery, Prevention of Learning Disabilities, the Carolina Abecedarian Project, Comer's School Development Program, and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Family Programs
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) House Committee Approves Education Funding Bill: Striving Readers Program Would Receive $5 Million Increase; (2) Role…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Nonprofit Organizations, Talent Development
Baltimore, Maryland: Labor-Management Partnership at Work. Educational Issues Policy Brief Number 16
American Federation of Teachers, 2003
An alarming trend of low performance and legal problems dogged the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) in the early and mid-1990s. In 1997, the Maryland State Legislature adopted a law creating a partnership between the sate, city and BCPSS, creating a new Board of Commissioners to run the school district. Under this leadership, serious…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Standardized Tests, School Restructuring, State School District Relationship
Educational Programs That Work: The Catalogue of the National Diffusion Network (NDN). 20th Edition.
Leutheuser, Jami, Ed. – 1994
This publication provides current descriptions of exemplary educational programs in many areas that meet National Education Goals and Department of Education's Program Effectiveness Panel standards. Opening sections list the National Goals for Education, offer questions and answers about the volume, list projects approved since the last edition…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adult Education, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
