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Tag: readiness Tag » readiness- 1/3/09 - Lippman, L., Atienza, A., Rivers, A., Keith, J.
This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and competencies students need in order to be successful. These prescriptions tend to focus either on college readiness or on workplace readiness. At... - 1/5/09 - Howard Adelman, Linda Taylor
When it comes to mental health, urban schools have a wide range of assets and strengths - many of which have gone untapped. These assets reside within the school staff, the students, their families, and community resources, and bring with them resilience, perseverance, and hope. Urban schools are among the most ready of our nation’s schools to focus on mental health. Part of this readiness stems from an appreciation of the importance of promoting healthy social-emotional development, and... - 1/18/09 - Education Commission of the States,
In most states, the considerable policy focus on high schools in recent years has not trickled down to a focus on the middle grades - yet preparation for “college- and work-ready standards” must begin before high school, especially for at-risk students. Although research on best practices in the middle grades is less plentiful than research on other grade levels (i.e., early learning, high school), there is growing awareness of the need for states to shift attention to what happens in... - 1/3/09 - Fixsen, D. L., Blase, K.A., Horner, R., Sugai, G.
The purpose of this Brief is to define the variables a state or large district leadership team may wish to consider as they determine if they are “ready” to invest in the scaling-up of an innovation in education. As defined here, “scaling up” means that at least 60% of the students who could benefit from an innovation have access to that innovation in schools across a State. Creating benefits to students on a comprehensive scale requires considerable change by teachers, building... - 1/2/10 - U.S. Department of Education,
"This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and principal effectiveness to ensure that every classroom has a great teacher and every school has a great leader; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children’s schools, and to educators to help them improve their students’ learning; (3) Implementing college- and career-ready... - 1/14/09 - National High School Alliance,
"In A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth, the National High School Alliance identifies six core principles and recommended strategies that will foster high academic achievement, close the achievement gap, and promote civic and personal growth among all high-school-age youth in our high schools and communities. At the center of the framework is the Alliance’s belief that the purpose of high school is to ensure that all high-schoolage students are ready for college... - 1/3/09 - L. Scott Miller, Eugene Garcia
This report addresses the need for a much expanded early childhood education research and strategy development agenda concerned with making substantial, ongoing improvements in the reading readiness and reading achievement of Latinos and African Americans. The focus is on the early childhood years because the achievement patterns of racial/ethnic groups are largely established in the period from birth through the end of the third grade (ages eight or nine for most children). The emphasis is... - 1/12/09 - Charles Bruner
This report presents information and approaches to support investments in early childhood by focusing on the investment potential of early childhood services in school readiness and other areas. - 1/9/10 - Rolfhus, Eric, Decker, Lauren E., Brite, Jessica L., Lois Gregory
"This study of four national English language arts standards compares the content of three sets of standards with a benchmark set, the American Diploma Project (ADP), to see how closely the sets agree on what students should know in English language arts to prepare for college. The match between each of the three comparison sets and the 62 content statements in the ADP benchmark varies, from 77 percent of the statements for the College Board College Readiness Standards and 68 percent for... - 1/1/04 - Charles Bruner
This monograph provides information on how advocates might work to build a broader set of allies to promote an early childhood agenda to improve school readiness. - 1/1/06 - Spielhagen, Frances R.
Recent changes in national and state mathematics standards have increased the level of algebraic thinking taught in younger grades. These changes have prompted more inclusive curriculum designs that open the opportunity to enroll in advanced mathematics courses at younger ages. Of particular interest to this study is the access to eighth-grade algebra, once traditionally reserved for select populations. This study examined long-term academic outcomes for students who did or did not enroll in... - 1/5/10 - Kimberly Boller , Sally Atkins-Burnett , Elizabeth M. Malone , Gail P. Baxter , Jerry West
"This NCEE Reference Report is a ready resource available to help evaluators researchers' select outcome measures for their future studies and also assist policymakers in understanding the measures used in existing IES studies. The two-volume "Compendium of Student, Teacher, and Classroom Measures Used in NCEE Evaluations of Educational Interventions" provides comparative information about the domain, technical quality, and history of use of outcome measures used in IES-funded evaluations... - 1/5/10 - Kimberly Boller , Sally Atkins-Burnett , Elizabeth M. Malone , Gail P. Baxter , Jerry West
"This NCEE Reference Report is a ready resource available to help evaluators researchers' select outcome measures for their future studies and also assist policymakers in understanding the measures used in existing IES studies. The two-volume "Compendium of Student, Teacher, and Classroom Measures Used in NCEE Evaluations of Educational Interventions" provides comparative information about the domain, technical quality, and history of use of outcome measures used in IES-funded evaluations... - 1/5/09 - Donna Bryant, Karen Taylor
The primary goal of Smart Start is to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. Based on extensive evidence that child care quality can positively affect children's learning, one of the main ways that Smart Start has tried to achieve the readiness goal is by improving the quality of children's experiences in early care and education programs. Smart Start has funded a variety of technical assistance (TA) activities to improve child care including on-site technical... - 1/1/07 - Foster, Wayne A., Miller, Merideth
Purpose: The major goal of this study was to specify the developmental trajectories for phonics and early text comprehension skills of children from kindergarten through third grade. Method: Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (N = 12,261) were used in this study. The participants were divided into 3 school readiness groups based on an assessment of literacy skill development at the time of entrance into kindergarten. The different groups were tracked on phonics and text... - 1/1/07 - Foster, Wayne A., Miller, Merideth
Purpose: The major goal of this study was to specify the developmental trajectories for phonics and early text comprehension skills of children from kindergarten through third grade. Method: Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (N = 12,261) were used in this study. The participants were divided into 3 school readiness groups based on an assessment of literacy skill development at the time of entrance into kindergarten. The different groups were tracked on phonics and text...
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