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Download full textFurger, Roberta – George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2006
In "A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement," published in 2002 by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Anne T. Henderson and Karen Mapp reviewed years of research on parent involvement, and their conclusions are unequivocal. When parents are involved in school, students…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Furger, Roberta – George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2004
No longer limited to the classroom, educators move to close the gap between school and the real world. Transforming high schools has been likened to turning an ocean liner around: It involves slow progress seemingly measured in inches, rather than yards or miles. This report discusses how educators move to close to gap between school and the real…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Schools, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Furger, Roberta – George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2004
This once sleepy community, founded by Mormon missionaries in 1855 and jumpstarted by gambling 85 years later, now gobbles up real estate faster than a conventioneer chowing down at a midnight buffet. Every day of the week, two acres of Las Vegas area land are developed for commercial or residential use in a frenetic drive to accommodate the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Real Estate, Population Growth, Class Size
