COVID-19 prompted unprecedented disruptions to schools with challenges particularly severe for high-poverty remote rural schools. This case study recounts the story of a rural school that had participated in a research-practice partnership (RPP) multi-year improvement effort prior to the pandemic and documents the ways the RPP and the school-based…

Schooling transitions are often challenging experiences for students with intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder (ID/ASD), their families, and their teachers. Transition processes, particularly planning, can facilitate successful transitions from primary to secondary schools, and to postschool settings. Bronfenbrenner's ecological…

The results of the first year of an ongoing evaluation of Hungarian-English dual-language programs in Hungary are reported, including foreign language proficiency for secondary school students, parent and student attitudes and motivation regarding participation in the programs, and problems in implementing the immersion model in Hungary. (seven…

A study was undertaken to determine the degree of implementation and effectiveness of the individual plan (IP) requirement for secondary school students approved by the Utah State Board of Education. Questionnaires were administered to measure the experiences and attitudes of a stratified random sample of 850 students, 759 parents, and 672…

Part of an information package developed to help eliminate sex stereotyping and to promote positive parental attitudes concerning nontraditional careers for their children, this leader's guide contains information to help Pennsylvania teachers promote and carry out a workshop to increase parents' ability to assist their children with career…

A survey was conducted in 1988 of the 14 secondary schools in Missouri and 7 schools in North Dakota involved in German I by Satellite from Oklahoma State University. Questionnaires mailed to each district included forms for the administrator responsible for initiating the program in the schools, the program coordinator, each student enrolled in…

The Department of Career and Vocational Education of the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland offers students a variety of services to help develop awareness, explore options, and prepare for career roles. In the spring of 1983, three career components were evaluated by the Department of Educational Accountability: (1) the Executive…

This report is a preliminary analysis of data provided by the 7 North Dakota and 14 Missouri schools involved in the German I by Satellite Program during the 1987-88 school year. In May 1988 each of the 21 schools participated in the first phase of a comprehensive distance learning study, the purpose of which was to identify the factors associated…