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Analysis of Year 2 (2003-2004) Student Achievement Outcomes for the Memphis KIPP DIAMOND Academy

Author : Brenda McSparrin Gallagher

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Page : 18 pages

File Size : 46,86 MB

Release : 2005

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The present study examined outcomes on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program/Achievement Test (TCAP/AT) for the KIPP:DIAMOND Academy (KIPP:DA), which is in its second year of operation. Importantly, as in Year 1, a rigorous quasi-experimental research design was employed, in which each KIPP:DA student was individually matched to a highly similar counterpart who attended one of several geographically proximate neighborhood schools. The 2004 TCAP/AT was taken by three subsamples of KIPP:DA students: (a) fifth graders who had completed their first year at the school, (b) sixth graders who had also completed their first year, and (c) sixth graders who had completed their second year at the school. "Pretest" analyses revealed that KIPP:DA and control students scored almost identically on the TCAP/AT in the year prior to the former group's enrollment in KIPP:DA. Comparisons between the three KIPP:DA groups and their matched control counterparts on each of the TCAP/AT subtests (Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics), directionally favored KIPP:DA in 7 out of the 9 analyses (median ES = +0.14) unadjusted for pretest score, and in 8 out of 9 analyses (median ES = +0.16) adjusted for pretest scores. Inferential analyses showed the KIPP:DA advantages to be statistically significant for only the fifth-grade and sixth-grade longitudinal cohort subsamples. Supplementary descriptive analyses of the criterion-referenced (CRT) portion of TCAP/AT further revealed that, while not statistically significant, KIPP:DA students in all three subsamples were more frequently represented than the matched control students at the Proficient and Advanced levels, and less frequently at the Below Proficient level, in both Reading/Language Arts and Mathematics. These results are clearly suggestive of positive KIPP:DA effects in Year 2, especially in view of the doubling of school size and special unanticipated challenges faced during the year. Pretest School Attendance for Control Group Mates tabular data is appended. (Contains 4 tables.).



Poverty and Literacy

Author : Nathalis Wamba

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 137 pages

File Size : 48,67 MB

Release : 2014-07-16

Category : Education

ISBN : 1317978323

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There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils, school models that ‘beat the odds’, and the resiliency of low-income families dedicated to the academic success of their children. This book examines the connection between poverty and literacy, looking at the potential roles and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, researchers, and policymakers in closing the achievement gap and in reducing the effects of poverty on the literacy skill development of low-income children. There are numerous suggestions about how to improve schools so that they respond to the needs of low-income children; some argue for school reform, while others advocate social reform, and yet others suggest combining both educational reform and social reform. Without a strong foundation in literacy, children are all too often denied access to a rich and diverse curriculum. Reading and writing are passports to achievement in many other curricular areas, and literacy education plays an important role in moving people out of poverty toward greater self-sufficiency post-graduation. Schools and home environments share responsibility for literacy skill development; in school, literacy equals the acquisition of reading and writing skills, but it is also a social practice key to social mobility. The achievement gap between low-income, middle-class, and upper middle-class students illustrates the power of socioeconomic factors outside school. This book was originally published as two special issues of Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties.



Handbook of School-Family Partnerships

Author : Sandra L. Christenson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 738 pages

File Size : 43,73 MB

Release : 2010-06-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 113589258X

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Family-school partnerships are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school improvement. This recognition has led to an increase in policies and initiatives that offer the following benefits: improved communication between parents and educators; home and school goals that are mutually supportive and shared; better understanding of the complexities impinging on children’s development; and pooling of family and school resources to find and implement solutions to shared goals. This is the first comprehensive review of what is known about the effects of home-school partnerships on student and school achievement. It provides a brief history of home-school partnerships, presents evidence-based practices for working with families across developmental stages, and provides an agenda for future research and policy. Key features include: provides comprehensive, cross-disciplinary coverage of theoretical issues and research concerning family-school partnerships. describes those aspects of school-family partnerships that have been adequately researched and promotes their implementation as evidence-based interventions. charts cutting-edge research agendas & methods for exploring school-family partnerships. charts the implications such research has for training, policy and practice especially regarding educational disparities. This book is appropriate for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in the following areas: school counseling, school psychology, educational psychology, school leadership, special education, and school social work. It is also appropriate for the academic libraries serving these audiences.



Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Author : Sean Grant

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,63 MB

Release : 2021-10-31

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780833099624

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The reauthorization of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, referred to as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes evidence-based interventions while giving states and districts new flexibility on the use of federal funds, including funds that could be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL). The authors review recent evidence on U.S.-based SEL interventions for K-12 students to better inform the use of SEL interventions under ESSA. This report discusses the opportunities for supporting SEL under ESSA, the standards of evidence under ESSA, and SEL interventions that meet the standards of evidence and might be eligible for federal funds through ESSA. Federal, state, and district education policymakers can use this report to identify relevant, evidence-based SEL interventions that meet their local needs. A companion volume (available on the website) catalogues these interventions in more detail and outlines the research that has examined them.



No Excuses

Author : Stephan Thernstrom

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 25,28 MB

Release : 2009-07-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1439127042

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Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subjects, the majority of twelfth-grade Black students do not have even a "partial mastery" of the skills and knowledge that the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress calls "fundamental for proficient work" at their grade. No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. In a society that espouses equal opportunity we still have a racially identifiable group of educational have-nots—young African Americans and Latinos whose opportunities in life will almost inevitably be limited by their inadequate education. When students leave high school without high school skills, their futures—and that of the nation—are in jeopardy. With successful schools already showing the way, no decent society can continue to turn a blind eye to such racial and ethnic inequality.



No Excuses

Author : Samuel Casey Carter

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Page : 138 pages

File Size : 15,84 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Education

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"All children can learn. The principals and schools profiled in this book have overcome the bureaucratic and cultural obstacles that keep low-income children behind in most public schools. No Excuses schools have created a culture of achievement among children whom most public schools would condemn to a life of failure."--Foreword, p. 1-2.



Evidence Matters

Author : Frederick Mosteller

Publisher : Brookings Institution Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 12,60 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780815702054

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Researchers use a variety of tools to determine their impact and efficacy, including sample surveys, narrative studies, and exploratory research. However, randomized field trials, which are commonly used in other disciplines, are rarely employed to measure the impact of education practice. Evidence Matters explores the history and current status of research in education and encourages the more frequent use of such trials.



Politics, Markets, and America's Schools

Author : John E. Chubb

Publisher : Brookings Institution Press

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 32,79 MB

Release : 2011-09-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0815717261

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During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem. The fundamental causes of poor academic performance, they claim, are not to be found in the schools, but rather in the institutions of direct democratic control by which the schools have traditionally been governed. Reformers fail to solve the problem-when the institutions ARE the problem. The authors recommend a new system of public education, built around parent-student choice and school competition, that would promote school autonomy—thus providing a firm foundation for genuine school improvement and superior student achievement.



Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Author : Thomas Sowell

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 32,90 MB

Release : 2016-09-06

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0465096778

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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.



Work Hard. Be Nice.

Author : Jay Mathews

Publisher : Algonquin Books

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 30,71 MB

Release : 2009-01-20

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1565126734

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When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes sixty-six schools in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools incorporate what Feinberg and Levin learned from America's best, most charismatic teachers: lessons need to be lively; school days need to be longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half hours); the completion of homework has to be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers are available by telephone day and night). Chants, songs, and slogans such as "Work hard, be nice" energize the program. Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP founders and their students, Mathews gives us something quite rare: a hopeful book about education.