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Okatch, Dorothy – Childhood Education, 2021
Young people in East and Southern Africa need greater access to reliable information about health and education in order to make informed decisions on health matters--focusing on HIV and teenage pregnancy--and to increase basic education outcomes. Young 1ove organization, established in March 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana, is a grassroots, youth-led,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Health Promotion, Peer Teaching
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Downing, Jane; Williams, Jason; Holden, E. Wayne – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2009
This article reports an evaluation of a reading remediation program delivered to 151 high-risk students in a public school setting. Implementation fidelity was assessed by the amount of time each child was exposed to the program. Despite receiving fewer than the recommended hours of instruction, analyses of standard achievement scores indicated…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Public Schools, Remedial Reading, Reading Fluency
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Trembley, Phillip W.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Remedial math instruction emphasizing auditory procedures with 224 elementary students with learning disabilities in arithmetic resulted in significant improvements in the Standard Aptitude Test for third-grade scores in computation and concepts, fourth- and fifth-grade scores in concepts, and sixth-grade scores in computations. (CL)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
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Prichard, Allyn; Taylor, Jean – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
The SALT (Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching) remedial reading program was utilized with 18 elementary grade learning-disabled students. Gain scores were high on the Spache oral and silent reading subtest, less so on the word recognition subtest. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
Jackson, Merrill; Dando, Frank – Exceptional Child, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Males
Ziomek, Robert L.; Schoenenberger, William J. – 1980
School district personnel responsible for administering Title I programs recognize that for a student to take advantage of remediation the individual must be present for instruction. Many evaluations of Title I programs have attributed increased achievement to increased attendance, without explicitly investigating this assumed relationship. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Franson, Joseph Paul – 1979
The author describes an approach to mainstreaming handicapped middle school students in which students were placed in a regular remedial class with a regular education teacher, a special education teacher, and an aide. The model evolved originally because of staffing problems, but achievement in both self confidence and academics resulted in its…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
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Ayres, A. Jean – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1978
Investigated with 92 learning disabled elementary grade students were disorders of the vestibular system (response to gravity and changes in rate of movement). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Disabilities
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Allington, Richard; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Concludes that remediation often consists of students completing skill lessons in workbooks with the teacher serving as manager, that most remedial activities are not congruent with classroom tasks, and that remedial students generally receive no additional instructional time to acquire reading behaviors. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Content, Program Effectiveness, Reading Instruction
Slavin, Robert E.; Madden, Nancy A. – 1987
This paper examines research on classroom programs for elementary school students who are at risk for learning problems. The full range of alternative classroom organization models designed to meet the needs of low-achieving or heterogeneous classes is explored in an attempt to discover which type of program is most effective and why. The goal of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Continuous Progress Plan, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Koenke, Karl – Reading Teacher, 1988
Provides a picture of remedial reading instruction based on three views: (1) an observational study of Chapter l programs; (2) an observational study of 79 Chapter l teachers in a large city; and (3) an analysis of the case reports of a college reading clinic. Calls for reform based on theory and research. (NH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials, Language Arts
Lechowicz, Joseph S. – 1976
The Perceptual Conditioning for Decoding Program, funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature, was designed for the teaching of decoding as the first phase in learning to read to 1900 kindergarten through third grade students in eleven schools in Queens County, New York. For those target students not knowing the alphabet, a…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Minority Group Children, Program Descriptions
Almeida, Cynthia H. – 1976
This report is an evaluation of a selected New York City Umbrella program, funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature. The primary goal of the program was to improve the reading achievement of first and second grade pupils in selected schools through the use of photographs taken by the pupils. The program was conducted in six…
Descriptors: Attendance, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1986
The District of Columbia's Student Progress Plan (SPP) was designed as the delivery system for the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), and regulates student promotions based on skill attainment and mastery of the instructional objectives. An evaluation of SPP was conducted in the second semester of school year 1985-86, and its findings are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1985
The nineteenth annual summary of activities provided through Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and its Title I predecessor, this report includes statistics for fiscal 1984, participation trends, instructional impact, expenditure and staffing patterns, parent involvement, and five-year trends. After a brief discussion of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Federal Programs
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