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Carroll, Curtis Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This non-experimental study examined the influence of an initiative that High Risk School District (pseudonym) implemented to offset the effect of low student academic performance in low performing-schools. The study attempted to answer the following research question: Does having a Teach For America (TFA) teacher have an influence on a student's…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Low Income, Teacher Influence, Mathematics Teachers
Hansen, Michael; Backes, Benjamin; Brady, Victoria; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
A sizeable body of evidence has documented the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the mathematics test scores of their students, though little is known about the program's impact at the school level. TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers
Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
This report examines the placement of Teach for America (TFA) teachers and examines their impact on the learning gains of their students during 2012-13. TFA is an organization that recruits and trains recent college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in selected communities. Sets of eligible TFA teachers were identified in 2012-13…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Placement
Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
This report examines the placement of Teacher for America (TFA) teachers and examines their impact on the learning gains of their students during 2011-12. TFA is an organization that recruits and trains recent college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in selected communities. Sets of eligible TFA teachers were identified in 2011-12,…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Placement
Complete College America, 2012
The intentions were noble. It was hoped that remediation programs would be an academic bridge from poor high school preparation to college readiness. Sadly, remediation has become instead higher education's "Bridge to Nowhere." This broken remedial bridge is travelled by some 1.7 million beginning students each year, most of whom will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Preparation, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
May, Henry; Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Perda, David – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2004
Rarely in educational research do researchers have access to data that allow them to empirically explore the impacts of programs on individual student learning over long periods of time. This element of Consortium for Policy Research in Education's (CPRE) evaluation of the America's Choice comprehensive school reform design is one of those…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Academic Standards
Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Taylor, Brooke Snyder; May, Henry – 2002
This report provides feedback on the implementation of America's Choice school design in a Florida school district. It seeks evidence of the impacts of the design, focusing on the literacy workshops. The evaluation asks three central questions: Is America's Choice being carried out in the manner envisioned? Are instructional practices of teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Gatlin, Su Jin; Heilig, Julian Vasquez – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
Recent debates about the utility of teacher education have raised questions about whether certified teachers are, in general, more effective than those who have not met the testing and training requirements for certification, and whether some candidates with strong liberal arts backgrounds might be at least as effective as teacher education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Teaching Experience, Teacher Effectiveness
Mac Iver, Martha Abele; Vaughn, E. Sidney, III – ERS Spectrum, 2007
This study compares the retention rates of urban teachers in the Baltimore City Public School System who were recruited through a federal program called Teach for America (TFA) and selected alternative certification programs, with those of certified teachers and teachers who do not possess regular teaching credentials. The authors researched…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Urban Schools
Arbreton, Amy J. A.; McClanahan, Wendy S. – 2002
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (GPTTO) and Gang Intervention Through Targeted Outreach (GITTO) initiatives of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The study examined whether the clubs were attracting youth at high risk of gang involvement, whether clubs could keep GPTTO and GITTO youth…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, At Risk Persons, Juvenile Gangs, Program Effectiveness
Prescott, Sharon H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore upper elementary reading classes in a low socio-economic area to determine the effects frequent praise, both academically and socially, have on the zone of proximal development in reading (ZPD[subscript RL], Renaissance Learning, 2006). A causal-comparative study was utilized by observing two groups of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Beginning Reading
Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy, Ed. – Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing, 2001
This scholarly journal, an official publication of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to the acquisition of language, literacy development, and instructional theory and practice. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "Affinities and Contradictions: The Dynamics…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy
Mason, Bryce – RAND Corporation, 2005
Achievement effects as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test 9 were estimated for students in grades 1-11 that participated in America's Choice, Co-nect, Different Ways of Knowing, Success for All (SFA), and Urban Learning Centers comprehensive school reform (CSR) designs implemented in Los Angeles Unified School District between 1999 and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Research Methodology, School Restructuring, School Districts