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Download full textHartzell, Gary – 2002
Principals should support school libraries because it is in both their students' and their own best interest to do so. Quality library media programs can enhance student achievement, and informed, committed librarians can help principals enhance their own administrative practice. This ERIC Digest discusses improving student achievement, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
Work-based learning (WBL) includes a range of activities that extend beyond traditional cooperative education, such as job shadowing, service learning, internships, and apprenticeships--all of which provide career and technical education (CTE) students with valuable experience in the world of work. Several issues are involved in developing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Belfield, Clive R. – 2003
Competition exists when vendors of a service are available to meet the demands of customers. In the education sector, parents and children are consumers, and schools and districts are the suppliers. Theoretically, more competition should translate into higher quality schooling and enhanced educational outcomes. This digest reviews the literature…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competition, Competitive Selection, Educational Improvement
Melecio, Ray; Hanley, Thomas J. – 2002
The federal Migrant Education Program aims to minimize the negative effects on migrant children and youth caused by constant mobility and interrupted schooling. A primary activity of the program involves considerable efforts to identify and recruit children eligible for services. However, finding migrant children is not an easy task. This digest…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Identification, Information Sources, Migrant Children
Schwartz, Wendy – 2002
The 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act mandates that schools receiving federal funding must desegregate their student performance data by race, gender, and socioeconomic status in order to provide progress information to the community and state. Data-driven decision making is particularly important in urban schools…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Equity (Finance)
Sheldon, Caroline Q. – 2002
This digest offers community college academic leaders a synopsis of the key components necessary for building a successful developmental education instructional framework. Specific emphasis is placed on program structure, faculty, and program improvement. Developmental education is defined as "courses or services provided for the purpose of…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, Developmental Studies Programs
Mardis, Marcia A. – 2003
This ERIC Digest is intended to help eligible school library personnel write an effective proposal for the "Improving Literacy Through School Libraries" (LSL) grant program, which provides funding for high-need K-12 school library programs to improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to school library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
