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No Child Left Behind and Tutoring in Reading and Mathematics: Impact of Supplemental Educational Services on Large Scale Assessment
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Munoz, Marco A.; Chang, Florence; Ross, Steven M. – Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (NJ1), 2011
The present quantitative study evaluated the effects of Supplemental Educational Services (SES), a federally mandated component of No Child Left Behind, on student achievement in reading and mathematics. SES provides free tutoring outside of school to disadvantaged students who attend Title I schools in their third year of failing to achieve…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Urban Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Improving of Reading in High Schools: Outcomes of Ramp Up to Advanced Literacy in a Large Urban District
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Munoz, Marco A. – Planning and Changing, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of Ramp Up to Advanced Literacy, an unbundled Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) model, on the reading achievement of ninth grade students in a large urban school district in Kentucky. Using a pre- and posttest impact evaluation design, data from participating and non-participating…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Grade 9
Comprehensive School Reform in Middle Schools: The Effects of Different Ways of Knowing on Student Achievement in a Large Urban District
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Munoz, Marco A.; Ross, Steven M.; McDonald, Aaron J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2007
Comprehensive school reform (CSR), a federally funded program, is designed to raise student achievement via the implementation of whole school reforms. Unfortunately, although close to 400 CSR models have been adopted by schools nationally, there is relatively limited empirical evidence from rigorous research studies regarding the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Middle Schools, Achievement Gains