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Fahey, John M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Low graduation rates of high school students are a problem for the Native American community. One possible solution for low graduation rates is a credit recovery program that may assist Native American students to recover credit not earned in their early high school years. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a credit…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Navajo (Nation), Graduation Rate, American Indians
Teh, Bing-ru; McCullough, Moira; Gill, Brian P. – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
In recent years, some of the most ambitious charter school operators, with the support of philanthropic investors, have sought to increase the scale and scope of their work by creating charter management organizations (CMOs) that aim to replicate effective charter school models across multiple campuses. CMOs are nonprofit organizations with…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement
Hebbeler, Kathleen M. – 1985
The study reported here examined the long term performance of three groups of children who attended the Head Start program in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. The students attended Head Start as preschoolers in 1970-71, 1974-75, and 1978-79, and were in grades 4, 8, and 12, respectively, during the 1983-84 school year. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students