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Moore, William P. – 1991
This report evaluates the implementation of the "Long-Range Magnet School Plan" at Southwest High School, a mathematics and science magnet school in Kansas City, Missouri. The evaluation covers the academic years from 1988-89 through 1990-91. After an executive summary and an introduction that describes the program, the report is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Enrollment, High Schools
Moore, William P. – 1991
The Kansas City, Missouri, Long Range Magnet School Plan includes the development of math/science elementary schools. These schools emphasize investigative learning through exploration and problem-solving activities. This document is a formative evaluation of the progress in the implementation of the magnet theme during the 1990-1991 school year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Enrollment
de Leeuw, David; And Others – 1992
This report provides examples of curricular integration produced by teachers in three career academies in Oakland, California. It describes ways in which academic and vocational teachers have created explicit connections between their separate subjects. Following a preface, "Oakland Academies Magnet Programs--An Overview" (Allie…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Curriculum
Robinson-Lewis, G. – 1991
An evaluation of the first year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Latin Grammar Magnet Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri, is reported. The program is evaluated in terms of enrollment and program capacity, implementation, perceptions and achievement. Findings indicate that certain instructional goals (i.e., computer application, public speaking,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Enrollment, Formative Evaluation
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Seever, Margaret – 1991
This report presents a formative evaluation of the East Environmental Science Magnet High School in the Kansas City School District, Missouri. It presents data collected throughout the program's first year, including student demographics; program implementation information; achievement data; and perceptions of staff, parents, and students. An…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Rating, Administrator Effectiveness
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Seever, Margaret – 1991
This report presents a summative evaluation of the first 3 years of the program of Knotts Environmental Science School in the Kansas City School District, Missouri. The school, which serves students in kindergarten through grade 5, began operation in 1988. The report focuses on the enrollment goals; the implementation of the program; the 1990-91…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Rating, Administrator Effectiveness
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Seever, Margaret – 1991
This report presents a formative evaluation of the first year's program of Trailwoods Environmental Science School, a magnet elementary school in the Kansas City School District in Missouri. The school serves students in grades kindergarten through grade 5 and began operation in the fall of 1990. The report focuses on the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Rating, Administrator Effectiveness
Davidson, Mary E. – 1992
The Monitoring Commission for Desegregation Implementation in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools formally responded to the 1990-91 Chicago Board of Education's Desegregation Review on Student Assignment. That Board report presented data on the contribution of various student assignment procedures to the voluntary desegregation of the schools.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, Black Youth
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. Office of Intercultural Programs. – 1991
This report evaluates the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District (DMICSD) Intercultural programs. The following types of programs are in place: (1) a Voluntary Transfer Program; (2) paired schools; (3) magnet schools; (4) Extended Day Kindergarten; (5) English as a Second Language (ESL)/Bilingual Education; (6) a Bilingual…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Walesh, Sidney L. – 1991
This case study of the New World School of the Arts (Miami, Florida) outlines the planning, problem solving, and management involved in establishing the school. The New World School is both a public high school and college, providing intensive training in the performing and visual arts, as well as a full academic curriculum. A brief history,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Art Education, Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Di Martino, Vincent; And Others – 1983
Project IMPACT, a magnet bilingual program for Italian-speaking students in New York City, offered in 1981-82 full academic and career programs for 210 students in grades 9-12. The philosophy of bilingual education employed in IMPACT is transitional, and a major goal is to mainstream students within an average of two years. Students receive…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Moore, Mary T. – 1986
Because magnet schools restructure school and district attendance area boundaries in order to achieve racial heterogeneity, they attempt to disassemble the very unit towards which the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 1 program targets its resources--neighborhood schools attended by poor children. A nine-district survey of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Board of Education Policy, Compensatory Education, Conflict
Massachusetts State Board of Education, Boston. – 1983
This is the first of a series of planned studies undertaken (by court order) by the Massachusetts State Board of Education in order to monitor the progress toward desegregation in the Boston Public Schools. This volume includes the reports produced by department staff in areas monitored, together with selected statistical and other information…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College School Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Conflict Resolution
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational-Technical Schools. – 1984
This combination progress record and course outline is designed for use by individuals teaching a course in signals and communications. Included among the topics addressed in the course are the following: matter, the nature of electricity, dry cells and batteries, Ohm's law, power, magnetism, measurement instruments, Kirchoff's laws,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Communications
Lines, Patricia; McGuire, Kent – 1984
This paper identifies major education goals that conflict with educational choice and explores the context and causes of the conflict. Implications for family choice of the numerous reforms currently gaining nationwide support are examined, along with public policies that deny choice, such as attendance requirements, state-imposed curriculum…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Compulsory Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
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