Today's children are bombarded with images of violence in cartoons, news reports, television shows, computer games, movies, and other media. In growing numbers, they are also exposed to real-life violence in their own homes and communities--as witnesses, victims, and increasingly, as perpetrators. Emphasizing the need for early intervention and…

This final report details the results of a federally funded project designed to investigate reading comprehension in students with learning disabilities and their ability to identify themes. The first part of the report discusses reading instruction and students with learning disabilities, and provides an overview of the research. The second…

This brief paper describes a Behavioral Intervention Program (BIP) in Georgia in 1995-1997 that provided services at the local level for 88 students with severe and challenging behaviors. Under the program, students with severe behaviors are identified at the local level and referred to the BIP through a request for service process. The local…

A study evaluated the Speech-Language Program in school district #68, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. An external evaluator visited the district and spent 4 consecutive days in observing speech-language pathologists (SLPs), interviewing teachers, parents, administrators, and examining records. Results indicated an extremely positive response to…

Evaluation is an important component of measuring educational effectiveness. The purpose of this survey is to analyze the attainment of "graduate standards," a school district's list of ten statements of adult roles, skills, and education all students need in order to be successful after high-school graduation. These standards encompass areas such…

A case study of 6 high school English teachers illustrates their attitudes, perspectives, and experiences as they became immersed in the first year of a collaborative inquiry community of school and university-based colleagues who redesigned a teacher education program together. Three major categories of growth emerged: (1) perceptions of English…

A practicum was designed to determine board-wide standards for assessing student achievement in reading and writing in kindergarten through grade 8 by creating analyzed exemplars of student work. Reading and writing indicators were developed to be used as the basis for analyzing the reading and writing exemplars. Teachers collected writing…

In this study the counseling services of a suburban high school were evaluated. Counseling services were viewed as those normally available at a high school, namely, direction, advice, and guidance for academic, career, and personal matters. Specific research questions were guided by the individual questions on the two surveys that were…

A literacy/basic skills training project, revised to allow for the realities of the economic recession in New England, successfully trained 590 employees and 364 unemployed men and women. Revised positive outcomes included employment in companies outside the eight original companies in the project, enrollment in higher-level education and skills…

TRIO programs offer support services to students beginning at the 7th grade and continuing through to graduate school. Student Support Services projects provide instruction, tutoring, counseling, learning skills, and writing skills to primarily low income and first generation or disabled college students. Student Support Services projects are…

This paper presents an analysis of a long-term project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to insure that effective teaching is rewarded. The document attempts to frame the issues and explore the effects of the project first in the area of the role of teaching in the awarding of tenure. Noting the tradition in academe of awarding tenure on…

This document is the third in a series of collection of papers from workshops sponsored by the Faculty of Education at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. It contains three papers from a seminar on educational evaluation held early in 1984. The papers present ideas involving the need for the evaluation of instruction within school…

This overview focuses on two out of the six categories of organized youth sports; namely, agency-sponsored and interscholastic athletics. The discussion of the current status and proposed future direction of organized athletics for youth includes seven components of the problem: the role of youth sports in American culture; the role of athletic…

This report summarizes information about the nature and extent of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) prevention and health education being implemented in Colorado's youth-serving facilities, based on a mail survey of facilities serving youth in out-of-home placement. Forty-three of 78 facilities identified as serving youth age 12 and above…

An evaluation of the Educational Partnerships Program (EPP) examines the feasibility of using earlier research on educational change to foster such change. Also, studying educational partnerships between businesses and schools can determine the limits and possibilities of using them to foster change. The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) and…