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Download full textSusan L. Copeland; Steven M. Ross; Marty Alberg; Jennifer M. Krajewski – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2025
The Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE) at Johns Hopkins University contracted with the Memphis Education Fund to obtain and disseminate evidence regarding Peer Power's (PP) implementation and impact of their program in six Memphis area charter middle and high schools. This preliminary report synthesizes comprehensive descriptive…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Middle Schools
Schenck, Allen; Feighan, Kelly; Coffey, Debra; Rui, Ning – Research for Better Schools, 2011
This report presents the results from an evaluation of the fourth year of the Memphis Striving Readers Project (MSRP) conducted by Research for Better Schools (RBS). MSRP, funded for five years by the United States Department of Education, comprises two interventions aimed at improving adolescent literacy and the quality of literacy instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Middle School Students
Peer reviewedRoss, Steven M.; And Others – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1997
The first-year global evaluations of the eight design implementations in Memphis, Tennessee, are based on syntheses of data from multiple sources. Common strengths included revitalized schools and initiation of new school organizations and teaching strategies. Common concerns include the need for more focused training, teacher collaboration time,…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Program Evaluation
Murray, Saundra R.; And Others – 1980
This report, the second in a series of six, describes the PUSH for Excellence (PUSH-EXCEL) Project--its origins, goals, approach, and extent of implementation. Each of the six reports tracks PUSH-EXCEL's progress in six sites: Chattanooga, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Memphis. Chapter 1 discusses the social movement that became…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, National Programs, Objectives, Parent Participation
Murray, Saundra R.; And Others – 1980
This report evaluates the implementation of the PUSH for Excellence program (PUSH-EXCEL) from September of 1979 to March of 1980. PUSH-EXCEL operated in 39 schools in six cities. For evaluative purposes, 11 schools were studied, seven of them intensively. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and examination of archival records.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
Hicks, Lisa; Olins, Alexandra; Prince, Heath – 2000
Recent efforts to build economic and work force development systems in seven leading cities were reviewed to inform similar efforts undertaken in Baltimore, Maryland. Research examining efforts to establish work force development systems in the following cities were analyzed: Austin, Texas; Berkeley, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Agents
