This study examined the impact of the Lighthouse program, a school-based, after-school remediation program in the Chicago Public Schools, on student academic achievement. The Lighthouse program included an extra hour of instructional time and an hour of recreational time. Between the two activities, students received a healthy late afternoon meal.…

Administrators, trained Reading Recovery teachers, teachers in training, classroom teachers, and parents of Reading Recovery students from across the state of Maine were asked to complete surveys about their impressions of the Reading Recovery program during the 1994-95 school year. Respondents' comments were summarized by Reading Recovery team…

This report summarizes and evaluates the Reading Recovery (RR) program across the state of Maine for the 1994-95 school year. The report examines the children who were served, their progress through the program, and their performance on various measures of literacy skill. It states that about 41% of all children in Maine who were eligible for…

Concerns that higher standards and demanding high-stakes tests will disadvantage students who have attended weak, unsuccessful, or under-resourced schools have typically been met with the counter-claim that poorly prepared students will be provided with the extra help and support they need to succeed. Efforts to provide extra help are in their…

The poor record of affirmative action plans in government demonstrates that the Carter administration's plan to reform the Civil Service is not working. It is the management that has failed to take the steps necessary to translate pronouncements into practice. (Author/EB)

Compares attrition rates for students in a developmental science course to those for students with the same standardized Science Inventory scores who did not enroll in the developmental section. Indicates that students who completed the developmental science course had a higher rate of success than students who did not. (MAB)

A project identified as potential dropouts 53 Springfield (Ohio) South High School freshmen and 24 London (Ohio) High School juniors and seniors who demonstrated irregular attendance patterns and poor grade achievement. The 53 freshmen and 15 London High School students were enrolled in a career club, an intervention program to address their…

Boston's 1981-82 Title I program, consisting of supplementary reading instruction in the elementary grades and reading and language arts at the middle and secondary levels, is evaluated in this report. In the elementary grades, the average pre-post test gain was well above the program success criterion. On the average, a greater percentage of…

Operation Success is an innovative approach to dealing with potential dropout/high-risk students. The program operates out of the Center for Arts and Technology-Pickering Campus in Northern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The campus offers the students a full-day program, half academic, half vocational. The building of self-esteem and…

This study addressed the writing of college educated officers compared to their overall performance in an introductory Army course. The effects of an effective writing (communicative skills) program and a remedial enrichment program were also examined. A total of 137 U.S. Army lieutenants, who were students in the 15-week Military Police Officer…

The following findings are presented in this second evaluation of Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981: (1) the achievement of disadvantaged students has improved since 1965, relative to the general population; (2) Chapter 1 students experience greater increases in achievement test scores than others; (3) students…

A profile of Oregon's Chapter 1 programs during the 1982-83 school year is provided. During that year, 8 percent of all Oregon students participated in Chapter 1 programs, and 21 percent of these belonged to an ethnic minority. Of the students who received Chapter 1 instruction, 59 percent had help in reading, 24 percent received help with math…

This report presents a broad overview and assesses the effectiveness of the summer 1984 pilot of the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP). Chapter I provides a general introduction. These three program objectives are cited: increase participants' level of achievement, increase their ability to make responsible decisions about sexual…

This topical synthesis addresses the problematic issue of whether the techniques, processes, and procedures that generally result in effective, high-quality education will also achieve results with at-risk youth. After an extended introduction that raises this question, the key characteristics of effective schools are specified as leadership, a…

The objective of the final conference was to provide an opportunity for the 10 Associate institutions of National Project II to share what they had learned, both individually and as a consortium. Each institution had been chosen to participate in the project on the basis of an exemplary program for underprepared college students. This document…