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Download full textCorrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Dopkins, Laurie; Santelices, Claudia – Boston Foundation, 2019
Recognizing the importance of immigrants to Greater Boston and the value of English classes and other supports to building an inclusive and welcoming community, the Boston Foundation and the Latino Legacy Fund commissioned a study that explores the "return on investment" (ROI) for teaching English to adults who are speakers of other…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Immigrants
Graham, Georgia – Houston Independent School District, 2021
Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
New Mexico Public Education Department, 2016
K-3 Plus was established in 2007 as a six-year pilot project that permitted schools with high numbers of at-risk students to begin the school year 25 days earlier for kindergarten through third grade. The purpose of the K-3 Plus program is to demonstrate that increased instructional time in kindergarten and the early grades narrows the achievement…
Descriptors: Public Education, Annual Reports, Early Childhood Education, Pilot Projects
Direct linkFriedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Barnett, W. Steven; Garver, Karin A.; Hodges, Katherine S.; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Gardiner, Beth Ann – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2020
The 17th edition of "The State of Preschool," the National Institute for Early Education Research's (NIEER) report on their annual survey of state preschool policies, provides government policymakers valuable information for planning short- and long-term responses to the crisis. The report includes information for every state on child…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Yearbooks
Miller, Cynthia; Miller, Rhiannon; Verma, Nandita; Dechausay, Nadine; Yang, Edith; Rudd, Timothy; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Honig, Sylvie – MDRC, 2016
Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modeled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to low-income families, provided that they met certain conditions related to family health care, children's education,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Rewards, Incentives, Low Income
Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Barnett, W. Steven; Garver, Karin A.; Hodges, Katherine S.; Weisenfeld, G. G.; DiCrecchio, Nicole – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2019
The "State of Preschool 2018" is the 16th edition of the National Institute for Early Education Research's (NIEER's) annual report tracking state-funded preschool access, resources, and quality. Since 2002, the preschool landscape has changed in many ways; and in others, it has remained the same--highlighting the need for a renewed…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Yearbooks
Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Barnett, W. Steven; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Kasmin, Richard; DiCrecchio, Nicole; Horowitz, Michelle – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2018
"The State of Preschool 2017" is the 15th edition of the National Institute for Early Education Research's (NIEER) annual report tracking state-funded preschool access, resources, and quality. Since 2002, many states have made progress, a few have fallen behind, and a handful have emerged as leaders. As a result, disparities in access to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Yearbooks
Houston Independent School District, 2014
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for HISD student participants. A total of 577 students and their parents participated in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) HIPPY program during the 2013-2014 academic year, which was more than…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Program Descriptions
Barnett, W. Steven; Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Horowitz, Michelle; Kasmin, Richard; Squires, James H. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2017
"The State of Preschool 2016" is the latest edition of our annual yearbook report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. NIEER's [National Institute for Early Education Research's] "State Preschool Yearbook" is the only national report on state-funded preschool programs with detailed information…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Yearbooks
Daley,Tamara C.; Fiore, Thomas A.; Bollmer, Julie; Nimkoff, Tamara; Lysy, Chris – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2013
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Program is the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) primary vehicle for providing technical assistance (TA) to individuals and organizations responsible for serving children with disabilities and their families. The evaluation is part…
Descriptors: National Programs, National Surveys, Technical Assistance, Program Implementation
Barnett, W. Steven; Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Gomez, Rebecca E.; Horowitz, Michelle; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Brown, Kirsty Clarke; Squires, James H. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2016
The "2015 State of Preschool Yearbook" profiles state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2014-2015 school year as well as documenting more than a decade of change in state pre-K since the first Yearbook collected data on the 2001-2002 school year.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Yearbooks
Fraker, Thomas; Black, Alison; Mamun, Arif; Manno, Michelle; Martinez, John; O'Day, Bonnie; O'Toole, Meghan; Rangarajan, Anu; Reed, Debbie – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2011
The Social Security Administration is funding a random assignment evaluation of six demonstration projects to improve employment and other outcomes for youth ages 14 to 25 who are either receiving disability benefits or are at high risk of receiving them in the future. This report reviews the Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) projects, located…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Disabilities, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Myint-U, Athi; O'Donnell, Lydia; Phillips, Dawna – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2012
This technical brief describes updates to a database of dropout prevention programs and policies in 2006/07 created by the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands and described in the Issues & Answers report, "Piloting a searchable database of dropout prevention programs in nine low-income urban school districts in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Databases, Maintenance
US Department of Education, 2009
The Talent Search (TS) program is one of the federal TRIO programs, a group of eight outreach programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education that are designed to support and assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to attainment of a postbaccalaureate degree. (Contains 6…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Talent, Disadvantaged, Comparative Analysis
