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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 #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 #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 #51: Effects of Success for All on TAAS Reading: A Texas Statewide Evaluation
(2001-01)
This report presents analyses of data from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) reading measures. It sought to evaluate the program’s outcomes in all of the 111 Texas schools that began the program from 1994-1997.
CRESPAR Report #30: Disseminating Success for All: Lessons for Policy and Practice
(1999-01)
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.
CRESPAR Report #66: Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners: A Best-Evidence Synthesis
(2003-12)
This report reviews experimental studies of reading programs for English language learners, focusing both on comparisons of bilingual and English-only programs and on specific, replicable models that have been evaluated ...
CRESPAR Report #36: Roots & Wings: Effects of Whole-School Reform on Student Achievement
(1999-05)
In recent years, there has been a remarkable transformation in the movement to reform America’s public schools. A rapidly growing type of reform is the widespread dissemination of replicable whole-school reform models with ...
CRESPAR Report #39: MathWings: Effects on Student Mathematics Performance
(1999-05)
Constructivist approaches to mathematics instruction based on the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) have been widely advocated and are expanding in use.
CRESPAR Report #41: Success for All / Roots & Wings: Summary of Research on Achievement Outcomes (revised)
(2004-02)
The purpose of this review is to describe the current state of research on the achievement outcomes of Success for All, a program built around the idea that every child can and must succeed in the early grades, no matter ...
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. ...