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Sundell, Kirsten; Castellano, Marisa; Overman, Laura T.; Aliaga, Oscar A. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2012
Over the past five years, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) has sponsored five research studies of Programs of Study (POS)--including three ongoing longitudinal projects--with the goal of informing the field about how and under what conditions POS impact student engagement, achievement, and transition to…
Descriptors: School Culture, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Vocational Education
Datnow, Amanda; Castellano, Marisa – 2000
This is the final report of a 2-year qualitative study of 3 elementary schools implementing the Success for All (SFA) program. Success for All is a research-based reform model that organizes resources to focus on prevention and early intervention to ensure that students succeed in reading throughout the elementary grades. Data were gathered in 61…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Prevention
Castellano, Marisa; Harrison, Linda; Schneider, Sherrie – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2007
Many state educational administrators are currently working to define secondary career and technical education (CTE) content standards that specify the knowledge and skills students are expected to master in CTE program areas. The two-phase project on which this report is based explored (a) the progress and status of states in developing statewide…
Descriptors: Technical Education, State Standards, Educational Practices, Career Education
Castellano, Marisa; Stringfield, Samuel; Stone, James R., III – 2001
A literature review examined educational research on school reform and vocational and technical education. The first area examined student risk factors in education, the state of the art in secondary vocational education (career and technical education or CTE), and the interplay of these new forms of CTE and other comprehensive school reform…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention
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Datnow, Amanda; Borman, Geoffrey D.; Stringfield, Sam; Overman, Laura T.; Castellano, Marisa – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003
This article presents findings from a 4-year study of 13 culturally and linguistically diverse elementary schools implementing comprehensive school reform (CSR) models. The study focused on: (a) the actions at the state and district levels that facilitated or inhibited reform implementation; (b) the adaptability of the various reforms in…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, School Restructuring, Multicultural Education, Multilingualism