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Download full textKnapp, Michael S., Ed.; Shields, Patrick M., Ed. – 1990
This document comprises nine commissioned papers and four literature review chapters that are part of the first report of the Study of Academic Instruction for Disadvantaged Students, a 3-year investigation of curriculum and instruction in elementary schools serving high concentrations of poor children. (A summary of this report is presented in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Strother, Deborah Burnett, Ed. – 1991
This study of students at risk was conducted to determine who is at risk, what puts students at risk, what schools are doing to help those students, and how effective these efforts are. Data were collected on about 49,000 students and almost 10,000 teachers in over 275 schools in 85 U.S. communities, and researchers conducted case studies of 65…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Allen, JoBeth; And Others – 1995
This book shows how teacher research and reform can positively change both teachers and students, making them better readers, writers, and learners. Two elementary schools in Georgia, serving students in a poor area that lacks educational resources, are the focus of the Kings Bridge Road Research Team, a group composed of public school teachers,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
