In the cities of Cleveland, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, more than 4,500 students are receiving public money in the form of scholarships and vouchers to attend private schools. The Milwaukee school choice program began in 1989, and the Cleveland scholarship program began in 1996. These school choice programs have spurred much debate, with…

Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…

This volume presents a summary of the responses of 62 first-year teachers to a seven-page instrument entitled, "An Appraisal of My Preparation as a Teacher at Bowling Green State University." A copy of the instrument is presented. Selected narrative summary comments are made, and following these comments are summary tabular data related…

Supportive services for early childhood education in the Philadelphia School District included four service areas: medical, dental, social and mental health. In six early childhood programs, 69-100 percent of the children received vision screenings, 44-77 percent received hearing screenings, 54-75 percent received growth screenings, and 73-84…

This report focuses on the extent to which conclusions about the effectiveness of compensatory education programs are affected by (1) the period of time on which the evaluation is based, and (2) the standard against which the program is judged. Previously collected evaluation data from four compensatory education programs (grades 1-8) are…

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I evaluations submitted by local education agencies to the Virginia Department of Education are compiled in this report to summarize statewide Title I implementation during the 1977-78 school year and summer. An overall summary of Title I programs is presented in narrative form, as are descriptions…

This second volume of the Head Start Program and Cost Data Analysis Final Report analyzes data from sources other than the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR). The report is divided into three sections: Distributional Impact of Head Start Financing, Pilot Study of Program Compliance, and Recommendations for Secondary Data Analysis. The…

This booklet contains an evaluation of the Urban Environmental Education Project instituted in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Data were obtained from interviews and questionnaires given to project staff, teachers, and students. Seven objectives were evaluated to rate the program: (1) assisting teachers in developing programs and…

This report reviews data from a survey of teachers conducted in April 2003, along with relevant data collected from application forms and surveys administered at the last training session attended by Intel Teach to the Future participants. All of these data were collected as part of an evaluation of the U.S. implementation of Intel Teach to the…

Analyses were conducted replicating pilot work examining the feasibility of using the Louisiana's educational assessment data in concert with the Louisiana Educational Assessment Data System (LEADS) database and other associated databases to assess teacher preparation programs. The degree of matching across years and the degree of matching between…

In its seventh year of evaluating children's services, the Children's Program Outcome Review Team (CPORT), under the direction of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, continued to collect and analyze data to improve service delivery to children and families involved in state custody. The CPORT evaluation for 2000 collected and organized…

In its sixth year of evaluating children's services, the Children's Program Outcome Review Team (C-PORT), under the direction of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, continued to collect and analyze data to improve implementation of service delivery to 11,800 children and families involved in state custody. The C-PORT evaluation for…

This report is an indicator summary, synopsizing the state of education, monitoring important developments, and showing trends in major aspects of education. It contains a sampling of charts of the 67 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2000." Graphs depict past and projected trends in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary…

This report explores the relationship between teachers' implementation of different aspects of the America's Choice program and the learning gains of their students. It draws on data from Plainfield, New Jersey, where teachers' survey responses about America's Choice schools were linked to the test gains of the students who were taught by those…

This document is the annual student satisfaction survey completed by Howard Community College students in 2003.The respondents came from all different class sections. The survey was sent out to 2386 students and 1040 replied, which is a 44% response rate. The majority of respondents had chosen HCC due to its close proximity to home (37%) and their…