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Download full textRandall, Katie Weaver; Ward, Justin – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2018
The 2013 Washington State Legislature enacted legislation (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.165.100) requiring additional data reporting for the Learning Assistance Program (LAP). Under the guidelines provided in the law, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) produces an annual report to the Legislature summarizing the…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Mathematics Education, Supplementary Education, Learning Problems
Meisels, Samuel J. – 1998
In response to the first of the National Education Goals (1991), which reads, "all children in America will start school ready to learn," this paper addresses four interpretations of the term "readiness" and the methods that have been devised to assess children's learning at the outset of formal schooling. The idealist or nativist view claims that…
Descriptors: Definitions, Learning Readiness, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2001
In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Pisani, David N. – 1978
This document describes the design and implementation of a screening procedure for a first grade readiness class which was receiving inappropriate referrals. The class was intended to serve normal children between kindergarten and first grade who seemed to need an extra year of maturation. Because students who exhibited discipline, emotional and…
Descriptors: Identification, Kindergarten Children, Learning Readiness, Placement
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2001
In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counties, Disabilities, Kindergarten
Zill, Nicholas; West, Jerry – 2001
With the launch of the U.S. Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, measures of knowledge, skills, health, and behavior of a large and nationally representative sample of American Kindergartners are available. Drawing on data from the study, this report provides a portrait of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Family Environment
Hamilton, Alicita; And Others – 1992
This report describes significant changes which have taken place in the public schools of Jefferson County, Colorado, and discusses issues which affect the quality of education in the county's school district. After a brief introduction, the report profiles the Jefferson County Public School District, presents information about the county's public…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Class Size, Educational Change
