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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
"Green Dot Public Schools" is a nonprofit organization that operates more than 20 public charter middle and high schools in California, Tennessee, and Washington. The "Green Dot Public Schools" model emphasizes high quality teaching, strong school leadership, a curriculum that prepares students for college, and partnerships…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
Modarresi, Shahpar; Wolanin, Natalie; Cooper-Martin, Elizabeth – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2016
The Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES) program is a collaboration between MCPS, Montgomery College, and the Universities at Shady Grove to create a seamless pathway from high school to college completion; it targets students who are underrepresented in higher education, the first in their family to attend college, or both. As one…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1983
A study was conducted to assess the services provided by instructional aides, Chapter I teaching aides and teaching assistants, educational therapy aides (special education), and attendance aides in the District of Columbia public schools, 1982-83. Teachers and principals rated very highly the value of the paraprofessional services. Teachers…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attendance, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Solomon, Henry; And Others – 1986
In 1980, the New York City Board of Education set reading standards that fourth- and seventh-grade students were required to achieve before being promoted. The Gates Program was established to provide remedial education to those students failing to meet the standards. A total of 15,705 students in the two grades failed to meet the standards in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Policy, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education
Jarvis, Carolyn; Schulman, Robert B. – 1988
City-wide all-day kindergarten was instituted in the New York City public schools in the l983-84 school year. Follow-up studies of two evaluations of all-day kindergarten, a prospective study and a retrospective study, were undertaken to examine whether enrollment in all-day kindergarten (ADK) resulted in higher third-grade academic achievement…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Enrollment, Followup Studies, Grade 3
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1983
The Evaluation System of the District of Columbia Public Schools has several purposes. It is designed to enable the school system to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and to identify characteristics of programs that seem to increase effectiveness. Also, it is designed to enable the schools to follow particular students over a period of years,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Data Collection, Elementary Education
Hagin, Rosa A. – 1983
The program entitled Prevention of Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Model, developed and operated by the Learning Disorders Unit of New York University Medical Center, has three elements: scanning, diagnosis, and intervention. Educational intervention is done primarily by Board of Education teachers and educational assistants under the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
Rachal, Janella – 1986
As part of Louisiana's minimum competency program, the Basic Skills Test (BST) was administered in grades 2 through 5. Student promotion rates in these grades between 1980 and 1985 were examined. Results showed that, in all four grades, the percentage of students retained to repeat the grade increased slightly. The BST was the main, but not the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Rachal, Janella – 1985
The longitudinal effects of Louisiana's Compensatory/Remedial Program upon student performance were assessed using data from four administrations of the Basic Skills Test (BST) between 1982 and 1985. Language arts and mathematics tests were administered in grades 2 through 5. Scores increased slightly between 1982 and 1984, and declined in 1985;…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education