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Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
This report by the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent nonprofit organization, examines trends in the achievement of high school students on the state reading/English language arts (ELA) and mathematics tests used for accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This study confirms that there is reason for concern about…
Descriptors: Accountability, High School Students, Teaching Methods, High Schools
Mulvey, Janet – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
The evidence is clear: America's boys are being left behind by current practices in the classroom. Boys are dropping out of high schools in significant numbers, failing to complete college degrees, and behaving more violently. The author states that teachers should pay close attention to statistics that track these trends, seriously regard the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Males, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences
Cangemi, Joseph P. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Discussion of the role of the school and its personnel toward children from disturbed homes. Condensed from "Kentucky School Journal, XLVIII (October 1969) p. 16, 34-35. (AP)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Educational Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Jennings, Jack; Rentner, Diane Stark – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent nonprofit research and advocacy organization, has been conducting a comprehensive and continuous review of NCLB, producing the annual reports contained in the series "From the Capital to the Classroom" as well as numerous papers on specific issues related to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education, School Districts, Public Education