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Marij A. Veldman; Mariëtte Hingstman; Hester de Boer – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Success for All (SfA) is a comprehensive school reform program designed to support schools serving many students of disadvantaged backgrounds to increase students' achievement. SfA includes daily 90-min reading lessons with extensive use of cooperative learning, tutoring for struggling readers, and an emphasis on parental involvement. School teams…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading Skills, Success, Disadvantaged
Kelly Robson Foster; Tanvi Kodali; Bonnie O’Keefe; Andrew J. Rotherham; Andy Jacob – Bellwether, 2024
Improving reading instruction is one of the hottest topics in K-12 education today. It is also one of the most complex, encompassing pedagogy, policy, and politics -- all rooted in a long history of arguments about the best way to teach kids to read. This analysis is a primer on the "Science of Reading" and efforts to implement it across…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Educational Trends, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction
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Centeio, Erin Elizabeth; Somers, Cheryl Leigh; Kulik, Noel; Garn, Alex C.; Shen, Bo; Martin, Jeffrey; Fahlman, Mariane M.; Mccaughtry, Nathan A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Background: The relationship between physical activity (PA) and academic achievement has received much attention given the recent push to increase children's PA levels through Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAP). Methods: In this study we followed 214 urban elementary students through an 8-month healthy school transformation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Carter, Teresa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students in a rural elementary school in the southeastern United States were not performing well in comprehension development. Educators at the school needed more information on ways to enhance student understanding and performance. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how elementary teachers' implemented comprehension…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Program Implementation
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Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A.; Quint, Janet – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
"Success for All" (SFA) is one of the best known and thoroughly evaluated school reform models. Further evaluation of the initiative is especially important for two reasons. First, the program model has continued to evolve over time, with a greater emphasis placed on the use of engaging technology in the classroom and on the deployment…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Educational Innovation
Dulaney, Shannon Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to record Cedar Middle School's (CMS) response to intervention implementation journey. It is a qualitative case study that examines one school's efforts to bring school improvements under the response to inventory (RtI) umbrella in order to achieve a more systematic approach to providing high-quality…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Focus Groups
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Quick, Heather E.; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Chaney, Kassandra R. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2009
As with many districtwide reform efforts, the San Diego reform sought to improve classroom instruction by focusing on building the capacity of teachers. This article examines practices of teacher professional development in the district and their impact on literacy instruction. Through examination of the literature on effective professional…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Change, Literacy, Teaching Methods
Plank, Stephen B.; Young, Estelle – 2000
Comprehensive school reform efforts are an increasingly visible part of the educational landscape. Policymakers, educators, and researchers are eager to assess the effectiveness of these models, especially regarding their utility in the most troubled settings. This paper reports results from one such reform, the Talent Development Middle School…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Middle School Students, Middle Schools