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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The 1984-85 age-grade distribution for the New York City Public Schools shows that one-third of the city's approximately 850,000 general education and resource room students were above the standard age for their grade. The proportion of overage students increased in the upper grades; in grades nine, ten, and eleven, over half were above standard…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Age Grade Placement, Dropout Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Edmonds, Ronald R. – 1981
In accordance with research into what makes schools effective, efforts were made to translate the findings into a school improvement project in the New York City Public Schools. The research isolated five characteristics of schools identified as effective (that is, as demonstrating for 3 years the ability to deliver basic school skills to the full…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Institutional Characteristics
Download full textLeddick, Linda – 1988
This study examines promotion and retention standards at the elementary school level in Detroit Public Schools. Forty-eight teachers from five schools participated. Data collected for each of 420 randomly selected students included: (1) mastery and nonmastery ratings on each of the essential skills in language arts, affective education, and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Attendance, Elementary Education
Graue, M. Elizabeth – 1993
This book examines the issue of school readiness, focusing on children's readiness for entrance into kindergarten and promotion to first grade. Chapter 1 reviews the literature on school readiness, exploring trends in policy related to readiness and readiness as a child-centered characteristic. Chapter 2 examines various theoretical frameworks for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedMadaus, George F; Greaney, Vincent – American Journal of Education, 1985
Examines the negative outcomes of the mandatory external primary school-leaving certificate examination administered to Irish sixth-graders, 1943-67. Concludes that the Irish experience should warn American educators of the possible dangers of using minimum competency tests as the sole or primary determinant of decisions concerning grade-to-grade…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, DC. – 1992
This publication, based on a 1991 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) "Idea Exchange" meeting, addresses the issue of enhancing minority transition into graduate education, and provides an in-depth look at several types of institutional partnership programs involving universities, corporations, or research laboratories, designed to encourage…
Descriptors: Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Diversity (Student)
Chandler, Trevor L.; LaPidus, Jules – 1992
This publication, the outcome of a series of graduate dean discussion meetings, explores the role and activities of college and university graduate deans, faculty, and administrators in enhancing minority participation in higher education. Also discussed are results of the winter 1990-91 meetings of the Council of Graduate Schools on the subject…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Role, Colleges, Demonstration Programs
