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Download full textModarresi, 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
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Student Services. – 1981
Pennsylvania's alternative education programs for youths with disciplinary problems have increased three-fold in the last five years. This publication includes descriptions of 36 such programs, chosen to be representative of the variety of programs operating in the state's schools. Each program description identifies the district, coordinator,…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Financial Support, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades
Wang, Y. Lawrence; Johnstone, Whitcomb – 1997
An evaluation of the developmental first grade, or pre-first grade, program of the Irving Independent School District (Texas) was conducted through four studies. Students are placed in the pre-first grade as a transition between kindergarten and first grade, typically on the basis of some assessment of maturity. The first study examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Developmental Programs, Ethnicity
Baenen, Nancy R.; Hopkins, Patricia – 1988
The Austin (Texas) Independent School District's (AISD) programs that were developed as alternatives to retention in grade for low-achieving students were studied. The AISD had 19 elementary transition classes (all-day classes, language arts, and language arts/mathematics) in 17 schools for 282 first and second graders in 1987-88. The Transitional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition
Scheuerer, Daniel T.; And Others – 1970
This document, the second of two volumes of a final report on a nongraded, phased, secondary school, presents the achievement instruments specifically developed as part of the operations research undertaken in that project. An intent of the project was to establish an acceptable procedure for developing instrumentation to support student placement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Role, American History, Biology
