Success for All (SFA), one of the best-known school reform models, aims to improve the reading skills of all children but is especially directed at schools that serve large numbers of students from low-income families. First implemented in 1987, SFA combines a challenging reading program, whole-school reform elements, and an emphasis on continuous…

Success for All (SFA), one of the best-known school reform models, aims to improve the reading skills of all children but is especially directed at schools that serve large numbers of students from low-income families. First implemented in 1987, SFA combines a challenging reading program, whole-school reform elements, and an emphasis on continuous…

Project Linking Learning ("Link") was created to target the needs of gifted students in urban school districts with historically underserved populations. Project Linking Learning implemented a linking curriculum between in-class instruction and an afterschool enrichment program for selected students in second through fifth grade.…

First implemented in 1987, Success for All (SFA) is one of the best-known and most thoroughly evaluated school reform models. It combines three basic elements: (1) Reading instruction that emphasizes phonics for beginning readers and comprehension for students at all levels, and that is characterized by a highly structured curriculum, an emphasis…

The goal of the Elementary Counseling Project is to assist pupils to function more effectively socially, academically, and personally in their social environment. Specifically, the project seeks to improve the level of reading achievement as well as the personal and social behavior of selected pupils in the school setting. During the 1983-84…

Elementary children of all ability levels benefited from participating in the Mini-Society, which is a highly individualized economics education program. Significant gains in terms of economic decision making, attitude toward school, and attitude toward learning were manifested by low, middle, and high ability youngsters. (RM)

Observations and interviews were used to evaluate the East Providence Career Education Project for 1973-1974. Data available on processes and products suggest that the program is substantially meeting its goals in spite of low attendance figures and student performance on various tests. A lower socioeconomic class of students with its resultant…

This handbook suggests ways for parents to help improve the achievement of their middle school-age children. A general introduction discusses the development of 10- to 14-year-olds and ways parents can help these children reach their potential. Chapter 1 begins with a description of middle schoolers and changes in their growth, the way they act…

A report is given on the Extended Elementary Teacher Education Program (EETEP), a five-year alternative to the regular four-year elementary program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The purpose is to prepare elementary teachers who exhibit higher levels of teaching performance than coteachers prepared in the regular program. Primary…

The reading achievement test performance of 180 sixth grade students in contrasting reading programs was examined. One program (Matteson) was an explicitly sequenced, behaviorally oriented skills program; the other (Scott Foresman) placed more emphasis on rich language experience and less emphasis on specific skill development. An…

In a 2-week course designed to give information about and experience with gifted students, 36 regular education teachers gained knowledge of educational diagnosis and assessment, instructional methodology, the characteristics of gifted students, and professional responsibilities as determined by pretest and posttest scores on the Clark Assessment…

DARE is a preventive drug education program intended to combat drug use by students before it commences. The elementary school program is the core curriculum of DARE. It is designed to help those enrolled to develop skills that will allow them to resist the pressures to use substances such as illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Students are taught…

This report evaluates the Portland Public Schools Title I preschool education program. Organized into four sections, the report provides comments and recommendations, a description of the program, a discussion of evaluation method and findings, and reports of a follow-up study of former program participants. The comments and recommendations…

Study examined why one school district required some children to take two years to reach first grade. Staff interviews, classroom observations, and demographic analysis indicated extra-yearing was implemented by a small, powerful few. More poor and fall-born children were placed in the program, which did not affect student achievement. (SM)