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Perhay Kuba, Summer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the difference in pro-social behavior, self-regulation, overall reading performance, Lexile levels, and teachers' perception of classroom climate of kindergarten students who received the Ready to Learn (RTL; Brigman, Lane, & Lane, 2008) classroom guidance program (treatment group: n = 173)…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Prosocial Behavior, Reading Achievement, Teacher Attitudes
Schwartz, Heather L.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Stecher, Brian M.; Steele, Jennifer L. – RAND Corporation, 2011
The upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides an opportunity to reconsider what factors school performance-reporting systems should include. Critics of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) have pointed to the narrowing effects of the law's focus on mathematics and reading achievement, and they have called for efforts…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Reading Achievement, Educational Practices
STEINHOFF, CARL R. – 1967
THIS REPORT IS AN EVALUATION OF A PROGRAM WHICH PLACED SUPPLEMENTARY PERSONNEL, SUPPORTED BY SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT, IN SELECTED ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS TO UPGRADE EDUCATION IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS. THESE SPECIAL SERVICE SCHOOLS WERE CHARACTERIZED BY HIGH PUPIL AND TEACHER MOBILITY, HIGH PERCENTAGE OF NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING PUPILS, LOW…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Citizenship, Cluster Grouping, Disadvantaged Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
This report evaluates the effectiveness of the Urban Academy program, a dropout prevention demonstration program involving a collaborative effort between Community School District 10 in the Bronx (New York) and the Victim Services Agency (VSA), a social service agency, to provide increased instructional support and social services to 78 at-risk…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement, Engineering Education