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Robin Thorne Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This comparative case study investigated how two Title I elementary schools within the same school district implement, promote, and maintain familial/community engagement programs. The district adopted and implemented a family engagement model based on Dr. Karen Mapp's Academic Parent-Teacher Team approach within the Dual Capacity-Building…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, At Risk Students, Family Involvement, Community Involvement
Lynch, Sarah; Lucas, Megan; Davies, Elizabeth; Sahasranaman, Aarti; Schwendel, Gemma – UK Department for Education, 2022
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP), introduced in the academic year 2020-21, is an important part of the Government's COVID-19 recovery response, supporting schools to respond to the disruption to education caused by the pandemic and subsequent school closures, offering targeted tuition support to disadvantaged pupils who have been hit hardest…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Staunton, Ruth; Worth, Jack; Lynch, Sarah; Lucas, Megan – UK Department for Education, 2022
This document contains the blueprint for the project "Evaluation of the National Tutoring Programme Year 2." It contains a summary and context for the programme, the research questions to be answered, and the methodology and timeline of the study. [For the Research Report, see ED624473. For the Technical Appendix, see ED624478.]
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
UK Department for Education, 2022
This appendix supports the report, "Independent Evaluation of the National Tutoring Programme Year 2: Implementation and Process Evaluation." It contains the quantitative methodology and data tables. [For the Research Report, see ED624473. For the Study Plan, see ED624476.]
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
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Chen, Hsiao-Lan Sharon; Yu, Patricia – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
Educators have increasingly implemented remedial education in elementary and secondary schools throughout Taiwan as a systemic approach toward closing achievement gaps. However, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and those in remote areas have shown little improvement in academic achievement. This issue raises the question of how…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Teacher Response, Remedial Instruction, Educational Policy
Biag, Manuelito; Gerstein, Amy; Fehrer, Kendra; Sanchez, Monika; Sipes, Laurel – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2016
The four case examples presented in this brief are drawn from the Gardner Center's substantial experience conducting rigorous research in research-practice partnerships. The first case describes a partnership approach that enhances a school district's capacity to use integrated longitudinal data to tackle persistent problems of practice and…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Inquiry, Educational Research, Partnerships in Education
Mathews, Jay; Mathews, Linda – School Administrator, 2012
International Baccalaureate (IB) programs are turning up in a diverse mix of school districts, an attempt to add rigor and depth. For rich and for poor, for big schools and small ones, IB has become a way to add rigor and depth to public school curricula. But each school district has adapted IB for its own needs. Some use it in all schools for all…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, School Districts, Program Implementation, Competition
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Hallett, Ronald E.; Skrla, Linda; Low, Justin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
School districts play a key role in identifying, supporting, and educating homeless students. This qualitative case study of a school district in Northern California illustrates how district leadership serves as a bridge between federal policy and local school sites. In this case study, federal funding funneled through the state served as the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Homeless People, Disadvantaged Youth, At Risk Students
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Nebauer, A. J.; Sungaila, H. M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1980
The evaluation revealed that most of the Disadvantaged Schools Program's initiatives reflected the guidelines provided and that, in many instances, several imaginative and well-planned programs were undertaken. However, the objective of involving the community was found to be less well-attained. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Ginsberg, Margery B.; Johnson, Joseph F., Jr.; Moffett, Ceryelle A. – 1997
This book is a resource for educators in any setting who are trying to implement school support teams. New legislation requires states to establish systems of intensive and sustained support for schools that receive Title I funds. School support teams are to become the primary component of these systems. These support teams, external groups of…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
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Davis, William E. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1995
Explores the concept of full-service schools for students at risk, identifying five specific obstacles or cautions that are especially important to consider when full-service schools are being developed. Such schools require understanding of the collaboration process and willingness to make major commitments in time and resources. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Pechman, Ellen M.; Fiester, Leila – 1994
This handbook provides information on how to use comprehensive schoolwide models to improve learning for more students. It paves the way for creating programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that are grounded in the lessons of successful Chapter 1 schoolwide programs. Following the executive summary and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educationally Disadvantaged
Jennings, John F. (Jack) – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Title I) embodies a 35-year national commitment to help educate economically and educationally disadvantaged children. Enhanced achievement expectations and a resurgent child poverty rate should spur Congress to renew Title I funding by the end of 1999-2000. (14 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational History
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Crist-Whitzel, Janet – 1985
One of three publications of the Research on Equitable Access to Technology project, this paper provides a literature review of the issues surrounding the provision of equitable access to computers for all children. Both the extent and types of inequities are explored, including hardware and software issues, and language and sex inequities. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Literacy, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
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Plunkett, Virginia R. L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1997
Describes the new directions, or paradigm shift, that schools must learn to deal with under the 1994 Improving America's Schools Act as subsumed under five headings: (1) standards; (2) focus on teaching and learning with an accelerated curriculum; (3) flexibility for local initiative; (4) links among schools, parents, and communities; and (5)…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
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