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Grossman, Jill; Cawn, Brad – New Leaders, 2016
At KIPP Comienza Community Prep--an elementary school in Huntington Park, California, where 94 percent of students qualify for free lunch, and more than 60 percent are English language learners--most kindergarteners start out well below pre-reading levels. In 2015, however, just a few years after these students walked in the school doors unable to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Data, Elementary Schools
Sklarsh, Sandra Janet – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Mixed methods were used to determine teachers' and administrators' perceptions of the degree of implementation of Response-to-Intervention (RtI) in four areas: research-based and standards-driven instruction, assessment practices or monitoring, intervention strategy identification, and decision-making processes. One hundred sixteen teachers and…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, School Districts, School District Size, Urban Schools
EdSource, 2011
This playbook draws from the findings of "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades," the largest empirical study of this grade level conducted to date. The "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades" study was designed to find out what higher-performing schools do differently. The result is a compelling set of specific, actionable…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Administrator Role, Academic Achievement
Marsh, Julie A.; Pane, John F.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2006
Data-driven decision making (DDDM), applied to student achievement testing data, is a central focus of many school and district reform efforts, in part because of federal and state test-based accountability policies. This paper uses RAND research to show how schools and districts are analyzing achievement test results and other types of data to…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Data Analysis, Educational Improvement