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Moskowitz, Fern C. – Executive Educator, 1988
To help boost children's study skills, this article provides tips for organizing parent education sessions, establishing an after school homework assistance program, providing homework organizers for students, and creating a homework hotline. Once the school program is in order, parents can be invited to participate as partners. (MLH)
Descriptors: Homework, Learning Strategies, Parent Education, Parent Participation
Boers, David; Caspary, Patricia – Executive Educator, 1995
For certain kids, doing homework is a near impossibility. Educators increasingly realize that they must change their traditional homework assignments to create opportunities for children to succeed. Written assignments can be replaced by interviewing projects, inclass cooperative learning activities, or afterschool study centers with appropriate…
Descriptors: After School Education, Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Stine, Marc D. – Executive Educator, 1990
A three-step plan to improve attendance at Aurora Central High School, Colorado, has successfully reduced truancies to less than 1.25 percent. Students with exemplary attendance are exempt from taking final exams; chronic truants are suspended; and all students are required to do makeup work for all absences. (MLF)
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Discipline Policy, High School Students, High Schools
Green, David – Executive Educator, 1985
Presents nine public relations programs developed for a Connecticut elementary school that were adapted from other schools and tailored to the school's specific needs. (MD)
Descriptors: Animals, Elementary Education, Homework, Newsletters
Bottoms, Gene; Mikos, Pat – Executive Educator, 1995
The Southern Regional Education Board's High Schools That Work program has successfully raised academic standards for non-college-bound students (the majority of students). Over 400 schools in 19 states now participate. The best HSTW schools feature higher expectations, tougher academic and vocational curricula, heftier homework assignments, and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Sang, Herb A. – Executive Educator, 1986
In a Florida county school system the combination of three afterschool homework assistance programs has increased students' responsibility for assignments. Students question teachers through telephone assistance. Students and parents talk with volunteer teachers in school libraries. A cooperative-use agreement with the educational channel brings…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, College School Cooperation, Creative Teaching, Educational Television
McAdams, Richard P. – Executive Educator, 1994
Fulbright teachers from England, Germany, Denmark, and Canada aired their views about American education during a 1991 conference. The foreign teachers admired America's commitment to providing universal access to education and academic second chances. They deplored local school funding disparities; teachers' heavy workloads and low status; and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
