NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Boston Foundation, 2018
The "Seventh Annual Report Card" provides the most up-to-date information available on Boston's education pipeline, from kindergarten through college graduation, including measures for school readiness, 3rd-grade reading proficiency, 6th-grade mathematics proficiency, 10th-grade academic proficiency, high school completion, dropout…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Reading Skills, Grade 3
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ryoo, Jean J.; Margolis, Jane; Lee, Clifford H.; Sandoval, Cueponcaxochitl D. M.; Goode, Joanna – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
Despite the fact that computer science (CS) is the driver of technological innovations across all disciplines and aspects of our lives, including participatory media, high school CS too commonly fails to incorporate the perspectives and concerns of low-income students of color. This article describes a partnership program -- Exploring Computer…
Descriptors: Computer Science, High Schools, At Risk Students, Low Income Groups
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Abowitz, Kathleen Knight – Educational Theory, 2011
Public schools are functionally provided through structural arrangements such as government funding, but public schools are achieved in substance, in part, through local governance. In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz explains the bifocal nature of achieving public schools; that is, that schools are both subject to the unitary Public compact of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
These three papers address educational improvement through partnerships between institutions of higher education and elementary/secondary schools. In the first paper, "Partnerships for America's Children," Kati Perry Haycock challenges educators in elementary/secondary schools and in higher education to use partnerships to create a continuum for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Black Students, Change Strategies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Boxie, Paula – Reading Horizons, 2004
What roles can colleges and universities play in serving the many young adults whom our public school systems fail? This article sheds light on how one university was able to make a literacy connection with students attending an Alternative High School (AHS). This connection enabled AHS students and teacher candidates to effectively carry out a…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Public Schools, Computer Mediated Communication, Literacy Education