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CRESPAR Research and Development Report
(1996)This report includes: Creating Talent Development Schools in which All Students Succeed; The Talent Development High School: Essential Components; Talent Development Middle School: Essential Components; The Talent Development ... -
CRESPAR Report #4: The Talent Development Middle School Creating a Motivational Climate Conducive to Talent Development in Middle Schools: Implementation and Effects of Student Team Reading
(1996-09)Central East Middle School in Philadelphia and CRESPAR are working together to implement a Talent Development Middle School model of schooling. Part of this effort includes use of the Student Team Reading (STR) program, ... -
CRESPAR Report #3: The Talent Development Middle School Essential Components
(1996-09)The Talent Development approach to helping greater numbers of students succeed in middle school is based on a belief that all students can learn challenging material if the right types of support are given. The approach ... -
CRESPAR Report #2: The Talent Development High School Early Evidence of Impact on School -- Climate, Attendance, and Student Promotion
(1996-09)The first Talent Development High School was established in September 1995 at Patterson High School in Baltimore, Maryland. The model at Patterson, which features career-focused academies for the upper grades, a ninth grade ... -
CRESPAR Report #1: The Talent Development High School: Essential Components
(1996-09)This report presents the essential components of the Talent Development High School, which is a comprehensive model of changes in high school organization, curriculum, and instruction based uponresearch on student motivation ... -
CRESPAR Report #5: Patterns of Urban Student Mobility and Local School Reform
(1996-10)Recent school reform efforts that center on promoting greater local school autonomy implicitly assume that students will attend a specific school consistently enough that the school can “make a difference” in their ... -
CRESPAR Report #6: Scaling Up: Lessons Learned in the Dissemination of Success for All
(1996-11)Success for All, a comprehensive schoolwide reform program for elementary schools serving many children placed at risk of school failure, was first piloted in one Baltimore elementary school in the 1987–88 school year. In ... -
CRESPAR Report #7: School-Family-Community Partnerships and the Academic Achievement of African-American, Urban Adolescents
(1996-11)Drawing upon Epstein’s theory of overlapping spheres of influence, this study explores the effects of teacher, family, and church support on the school-related attitudes, behaviors, and academic achievement of African ... -
CRESPAR Report #8: Asian American Students at Risk
(1996-12)High academic achievement is closely linked in the public’s mind with Asian American students, but many Asian American ethnic subgroups and individuals remain at risk. The main purpose of this literature review is to assess ... -
CRESPAR Research and Development Report
(1997)This report includes: Scaling Up: School-Family-Community Partnerships; Collaborating with Teachers to Broaden the Scope of Assessment in Schools; School Reform Efforts for Low-Income African American Students Must Build ... -
CRESPAR Report #10: Effects of Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition on Students Transitioning from Spanish to English Reading
(1997-02)Every child has the capacity to succeed in school and in life. Yet far too many children, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices that are based on a sorting paradigm in ... -
CRESPAR Report #9: Reducing Talent Loss: The Impact of Information, Guidance, and Actions on Postsecondary Enrollment
(1997-02)This study uses nationally representative data to show that information about postsecondary educational institutions (PEIs), guidance, and essential preparatory actions taken by secondary students influence whether an ... -
CRESPAR Report #11: Effective Programs for Latino Students in Elementary and Middle Schools
(1997-03)This report identifies programs that have proven to be effective and programs that show potential for improving academic achievement among Latino youth in the elementary and middle grades. This report identifies programs ... -
CRESPAR Report #12: Detracking in a Racially Mixed Urban High School
(1997-04)There is a growing tension between excellence and equity in public education. This report brings together both qualitative and quantitative data to document the efforts of a large urban high school to improve the schooling ... -
CRESPAR Report #13: Building Effective School-Family-Community Partnerships in a Large Urban School District
(1997-05)Since 1987, schools in Baltimore have been working with the Fund for Educational Excellence and the education research center at Johns Hopkins University to develop comprehensive programs of school-family-community ... -
CRESPAR Report #14: Volunteer Tutoring Programs: A Review of Research on Achievement Outcomes
(1997-06)The America Reads Challenge makes a national commitment to the goal that every child will read independently and well by the end of third grade. The primary means of achieving this goal is to place one million volunteers ... -
CRESPAR Report #15: Working Together to Become Proficient Readers: Early Impact of the Talent Development Middle School's Student Team Literature Program
(1997-08)The Talent Development Middle School’s Student Team Literature (STL) program includes: (1) curricular materials designed to assist students study great literature; (2) recommended instructional practices, peer assistance ... -
CRESPAR Report #16: Success for All: Exploring the Technical, Normative, Political, and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Scaling Up
(1997-09)This report explores the technical, normative, political, and socio-cultural dimensions of the scaling up process of Success for All, one of the nation’s most successful and extensively researched whole-school change models. ... -
CRESPAR Report #17: MathWings: Early Indicators of Effectiveness
(1997-09)Three evaluations have examined the impact of MathWings. One, involving four rural Maryland schools, found substantially greater gains on the mathematics sections of the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program for ... -
CRESPAR Report #18: Parental Involvement in Students' Education During Middle School and High School
(1997-12)This project analyzes data from the parent component of the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 to investigate changes in family educational involvement between students’ eighth and twelfth grades. Findings ...