Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422325605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reading First states report improvements in reading instruction, but additional procedures would clarify Education’s role in ensuring proper implementation by states : report
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422325605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reading First
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984114648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Reading First: States Report Improvements in Reading Instruction, but Additional Procedures Would Clarify Education's Role in Ensuring Proper Implementation by States
Reading First
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reading (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reading First
Author: Cornelia M. AshbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
The Reading First program was designed to help students in kindergarten through third grade develop stronger reading skills. This report examines the implementation of the Reading First program, including: (1) changes that have occurred to reading instruction; (2) criteria states have used to award sub-grants to districts, and the difficulties, if any, states faced during implementation; and (3) the guidance, assistance, and oversight the Department of Education (Education) provides states. The U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) study is designed to complement several studies by Education's Inspector General (IG) in order to provide a national perspective on some of the specific issues being studied by the IG. For this report, GAO administered a Web-based survey to 50 states and the District of Columbia, and conducted site visits and interviews with federal, state, and local education officials and providers of reading programs and assessments. GAO recommends that Education establish control procedures to guide departmental officials and contractors in their interactions with states, districts, and schools to ensure compliance with statutory provisions. GAO also recommends that Education establish and disseminate clear procedures governing its monitoring process. Education, in its response to a draft of this report, agreed with GAO's recommendations. Appended are: (1) Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; (2) Descriptions of Assessment Types; (3) Comments from the Department of Education; and (4) GAO Contacts and Staff Acknowledgments. (Contains 4 tables and 7 figures.) [This report was produced by the United States Government Accountability Office.].
Reading First States Report Improvements in Reading Instruction But Additional Procedures Would Clarify Education's Role in Ensuring Proper Implementation by States
Author: Seeing Complexity in Public Education
Author: Donald PeurachPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199736537
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book examines the complexity of effective, large-scale, and sustainable education reform through a historical analysis of the Success for All Foundation, an organization that has collaborated with thousands of elementary schools across the US to enact a common design for comprehensive school reform, all in the effort to improve the reading achievement of millions of students. The purpose of the book is to develop an analytic framework to assist education reformers in seeing and confronting complexity in their own improvement efforts.
Using Test Data for Student Achievement
Author: Nancy W. SindelarPublisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1607099624
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing. Yet, NCBL and other federal and state mandates have placed educators under increasing pressure to make certain all students meet standards on high-stakes tests. Now, more than ever, teachers and administrators need to embrace testing as a valuable classroom tool to guide instruction, use efficient technological resources available for test scoring and analysis, and profit from the benefits of test analysis to increase learning and achievement. Using Test Data for Student Achievement shows educators, step by step, how to use test data to facilitate student learning. The book combines research, technology and Sindelar's experience as a teacher and administrator to provide practical and efficient ways to use test data to increase learning, close achievement gaps and even raise test scores.
No Child Left Behind Act
Author: Cornelia M. AshbyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437903428
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Handbook on Communicating and Disseminating Behavioral Science
Author: Melissa K. Welch-RossPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 145221638X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The Handbook on Communicating and Disseminating Behavioral Science assembles for the first time in a single volume research, scholarship and practices from across relevant disciplines and professions to give a coherent picture for both students in the classroom and scholars. Designed as both a text and a handbook, it provides insights into the main actors, contemporary themes and approaches, key challenges, and the broader conditions that influence whether and how the work occurs. Contributors include: behavioral scientists; journalism and communication scholars; mass media reporters, editors and producers from print, television and radio; representatives of think tanks and advocacy organizations; and professional communicators from a university, a scientific society, and a national social issue campaign. All bring an accomplished record of sharing behavioral science to inform policy, mass media, service professions, and the public. Though scholarly, the book brings together leading authorities who are both "doers" and "thinkers" to offer insights into how the work is done and to illuminate the underlying conceptual and empirical issues. The book also advances the dissemination and communication of behavioral research as an area of scientific inquiry in is own right, one that holds vast opportunities for the field of behavioral science. Contributors offer recommendations for programs of research that should be at the top of the research agenda. As a book of core readings written to be accessible to both professionals and students, the book is poised to be a staple of any serious attempt to introduce behavioral scientists to key issues in communicating and disseminating behavioral science and to advance their capacity to understand and conduct the work. It is also an unrivaled resource for student and professional science communicators seeking to learn more about the challenges of communicating behavioral research.
Improvement by Design
Author: David K. CohenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608941X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but only a few have succeeded. Improvement by Design looks at three different programs, seeking to understand why two of them—America’s Choice and Success for All—worked, and why the third—Accelerated Schools Project—did not. The authors identify four critical puzzles that the successful programs were able to solve: design, implementation, improvement, and sustainability. Pinpointing the specific solutions that clearly improved instruction, they identify the key elements that all successful reform programs share. Offering urgently needed guidance for state and local school systems as they attempt to respond to future reform proposals, Improvement by Design gets America one step closer to truly successful education systems.