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Farrington, Camille A.; Small, Margaret H. – American Youth Policy Forum, 2008
The chronic academic underperformance and student failure of most American urban high schools are actually created by the antiquated way that schools evaluate student academic performance and award (or deny) course credits. When the school leaders in a small inner-city high school in Chicago began to question the "received wisdom" of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grading, High Schools, Urban Schools
National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children, New York, NY. – 1974
Initiated in the mid-sixties under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Uniform Migrant Student Record Transfer System (UMSRTS) was designed to maintain ready accessibility via computer data base to the health and academic records of migrant children. The National Committee on the Education of Migrant Children (NCEMC)…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Databases