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CRESPAR Report #58: Transitional Programs for English Language Learners: Contextual Factors and Effective Programming
(2002-05)In this report, transitional programs refer to instructional programs for students who have been schooled in their native language and are now in “transitional” classrooms where literacy instruction takes place in English. ... -
CRESPAR Report #57: Program Development in the National Network of Partnership Schools: A Comparison of Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
(2002-04)Based on survey data collected from 375 elementary, middle, and high schools in the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS), this report identifies differences and similarities in the development and quality of ... -
CRESPAR Report #56: Local School Boards Under Review: Their Role and Effectiveness in Relation to Students' Academic Achievement
(2002-01)This report provides a review of literature published in the past two decades on the role and effectiveness of school boards. Though school boards are but one component of school district leadership—the superintendent and ... -
CRESPAR Report #55: The Public School Superintendency in the Twenty-First Century: The Quest to Define Effective Leadership
(2001-10)This study examines research on public school leadership effectiveness, focusing specifically on the superintendent. The author begins with a discussion of the historical mission to define leadership effectiveness, followed ... -
CRESPAR Report #54: Neighborhood and School Influences on the Family Life and Mathematics Performance of Eighth-Grade Students
(2001-10)In this report, we explore ways by which neighborhoods and schools can influence the mathematics achievement of eighth grade students. We use data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) and combine it ... -
CRESPAR Report #53: The Long-Term Effects and Cost-Effectiveness of Success for All
(2001-10)A few renowned early interventions have compelling evidence of enduring achievement effects for at-risk children: Perry Preschool; the Abecedarian Project; and the Tennessee class-size experiment. -
CRESPAR Report #52: Academic Success Among Poor and Minority Students: An Analysis of Competing Models of School Effects
(2001-02)Based on national data from the Prospects study, we identified the individual characteristics that distinguished academically successful, or resilient, elementary school students from minority and low-socioeconomic-status ... -
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 #50: Core Knowledge Curriculum: Five-Year Analysis of Implementation and Effects in Five Maryland Schools
(2000-12)This is the final report from a five-year, matched-control study of five Maryland schools that began implementation of the Core Knowledge Sequence in the fall of 1994. This report provides both longitudinal implementation ... -
CRESPAR Report #49: National Evaluation of Core Knowledge Sequence Implementation: Final Report
(2000-12)This is the final report of a three-year evaluation of Core Knowledge Sequence implementation in 12 schools nationwide. The Core Knowledge Sequence, a whole-school curricular reform model, provides a planned progression ... -
CRESPAR Report #48: Four Models of School Improvement: Successes and Challenges in Reforming Low-Performing, High-Poverty Title I Schools
(2000-09)In this comprehensive report, the authors examine four distinct processes for reforming nine low-performing Title I schools in challenging high-poverty contexts. -
CRESPAR Report #47: A Two-Way Bilingual Program: Promise, Practice, and Precautions
(2000-08)In spite of political pressure, bilingualism is emerging as a strategy for improving the academic achievement of all students. Two-way bilingual or dual-language programs integrate language-minority and language-majority ... -
CRESPAR Report #46: Lessons for Scaling Up: Evaluations of the Talent Development Middle School's Student Team Literature Program
(2000-06)Comprehensive school reform efforts are an increasingly visible part of the educational landscape. Policymakers, educators, and researchers are eager to assess the effectiveness of these models, especially regarding their ... -
CRESPAR Report #45: An Inside Look at Success For All: A Qualitative Study of Implementation and Teaching and Learning
(2000-05)This is the final report of a two-year qualitative study of three elementary schools implementing the Success for All program. Success for All (SFA) is a research-based reform model that organizes resources to focus on ... -
CRESPAR Report #44: Classroom Cultural Ecology: The Dynamics of Classroom Life in Schools Serving Low-Income African American Children
(2000-05)The purpose of this study was to gain descriptive insights into the routines, practices, perceptions, and interactions that constitute the everyday ecology of classrooms serving African American children from low-income ... -
CRESPAR Report #43: The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Description of Home Environment Factors, Cultural Orientations, and Learning Preferences
(2000-04)This report examines certain home cultural factors, cultural orientations, and learning preferences of African American school children from low-income backgrounds in order to document the relationship of prior cultural ... -
CRESPAR Report #42: The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Synthesis of Findings on Cultural Contexts, Cultural Orientations, and Individual Differences
(2000-04)For many African American children from low-income backgrounds, cognitive performance can be enhanced in contexts thematically characterized by aspects of Afro-cultural ethos. This report presents and describes the results ... -
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 #40: Core Knowledge Curriculum: Three-Year Analysis of Implementation and Effects in Five Schools
(1999-09)This report presents data from the first multi-site, multi-district, multi-year study of the effects of the Core Knowledge curriculum on students’ achievement rates. As such, it begins the process of filling an information ... -
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.