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Rochford, Joseph A.; O'Neill, Adrienne; Gelb, Adele – Stark Education Partnership, 2010
During the 2009-10 academic year, 1,444 8th grade students in the Canton City, Plain and Marlington Local School Districts (hereafter called Stark students) took the EXPLORE Test as part of a pilot project, "Ready to Go: Increasing Eighth Grade Readiness," sponsored by the Stark Education Partnership with funding from the Ohio College…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pilot Projects, Familiarity, Academic Achievement
Stark, Robert L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Reading (Ohio) Community Schools' successful Early ID program evaluates each kindergartener and first-grader's fine motor skills, visual perception capabilities, and knowledge of basic language concepts. The process is highly structured and allows volunteers to follow a sequential set of skill activities through primary, intermediate, and advanced…
Descriptors: Identification, Intervention, Literacy Education, Primary Education
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1983
This dropout prevention guide was designed to assist school districts in identifying potential dropouts and in developing and implementing programs that provide prevention, intervention, and remediation. The introductory section briefly reviews the purpose, design, and origin of this guide and recognizes national dropout concerns, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Rosenberg, Steven L.; McKeon, Loren M.; Dinero, Thomas E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Positive Peer Groups (PPG) is a leadership training program that helps alienated and disengaged students bond to school via participation in school-oriented service activities stressing work, discipline, and responsibility. Students form affiliations with peers involved in the same efforts. Results in Ohio schools are encouraging. (MLH)
Descriptors: Alienation, High Risk Students, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
Hexter, Holly – 1990
This paper describes state, institutional, and other community-based programs deemed exemplary (on the basis of design imperatives) for successful interventions to promote meaningful access of minority group youth to postsecondary education. The imperatives include early intervention, comprehensive and integrated intervention, intervention…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Pretti-Frontczak, Kristie; Brown, Teresa; Senderak, Amy; Walsh, Joseph – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2005
Selecting and using effective instructional strategies is a challenge facing those involved with preservice teacher education. Two instructional strategies with emerging empirical support include WebQuests and Case Method Instruction; however, both have limitations. This study examined the effects of using a CaseQuest--a hybrid of WebQuests and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Intervention