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Download full textBean, Rita M.; Knaub, Rebecca; Swan, Allison – 2000
A study investigated the importance of reading specialists who work in schools identified as having exemplary reading programs and the roles and functions of these reading specialists. In stage 1 of this study, a 19-item survey questionnaire was sent to 111 school principals with exemplary reading programs, asking them about the reading…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Interviews
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Compensatory, Urban, and Supplementary Programs. – 1990
During the 1989-90 school year, the state of Maryland focused on heightening awareness, reaffirming commitments, and establishing partnerships between schools and shelters to ensure that homeless students had access to and success in school. The following accomplishments are outlined: (1) 21 local school districts implemented local policies and…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1989
In 1987-88 three small, rural elementary schools were demonstration sites for implementation of a computer-managed instructional (CMI) program. The schools were located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; Palmyra, New Jersey; and northern York County, Pennsylvania. Implementation costs were supported by the school districts, federal grant money, and…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Demonstration Programs, Educational Technology
Finson, Kevin D.; Beaver, John B. – 1994
The Illinois State Board of Education's Scientific Literacy Project provided extra funds to certain schools with the intent of creating demonstration schools useful as models for other schools to improve their science education programs. The study described in this document examined the impact of these funds on the target schools and attempted to…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
Eiseman, Jeffrey W.; Lippitt, Peggy – 1966
The first semester of a cross-age teaching project is evaluated in this report. Three adjacent inner city public schools, an elementary, junior high, and high school, were involved. Thirty-three teachers in the schools received 68 older students as educational agents to provide individual attention to their own students for approximately 4…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs
Hamilton, Ruth Walker; Zeineth-Collins, Susan – 1998
This study evaluated implementation of a federally funded outreach project, Bridges (Best Practice-Based Services for Including Students with Serious Emotional Disturbance in General Education), at one elementary school in Vermont. The project is designed to build the capacity of rural public schools to fully include students with severe…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Family Involvement
