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Gee, Kevin A. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
Children from certain racial and ethnic minority backgrounds, in poverty, and/or with a disability, often face distinct challenges in attending school, leading them to miss more school relative to their non-minority, more socio-economically advantaged and non-disabled peers. This brief describes these disparities in absenteeism in the US,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Disproportionate Representation, Race, Ethnicity
Rodgers, Emily – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
In every school district across the country, every year, initiatives are adopted with the goal of improving the literacy performance of young students, and, just as frequently, these initiatives fail or quickly become passing fads. In this article, Rodgers reviews literature related to scaling educational innovations and describes challenges and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Intervention, Literacy, Reading
D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Harmey, Sinéad J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
Reading Recovery is one of the most researched literacy programs worldwide. Although there have been at least 4 quantitative reviews of its effectiveness, none have considered all rigorous group-comparison studies from all implementing nations from the late 1970s to 2015. Using a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) v-known analysis, we examined if…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading, Reading Programs, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Temple, Judy A.; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
Budget constraints and difficulty raising taxes limit school districts from expanding education programming, even when research shows that additional expenditures would generate economic benefits that are greater than costs. Recently, coalitions of private investors, philanthropists, education practitioners, and government finance analysts have…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Social Influences, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
Algozzine, Bob; Marr, Mary Beth; Kavel, Rebecca L.; Dugan, Katherine Keller – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2009
Fluent oral reading is essential for success in elementary school. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of enhanced reading fluency instruction for struggling readers. The intervention was provided to small groups of students at risk for reading difficulties. Students were assessed on key early literacy skills. Second-grade students…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure
Bernhard, Judith K.; Winsler, Adam; Bleiker, Charles; Ginieniewicz, Jorge; Madigan, Amy L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2008
This article evaluates the utility of the Early Authors Program, a 12-month early literacy intervention emphasizing highly meaningful language interactions that was implemented in childcare facilities in an ethnically and linguistically diverse, urban, low-income community. Children learn to be writers and readers by creating their own…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Poverty
Sloat, Elizabeth A.; Audas, Richard P.; Willms, J. Douglas – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2007
This article presents an outcome-based model for evaluating school and community programs serving at-risk adolescents, and a cost-effective technique for comparing the progress of youth receiving an intervention with youth in a pseudocontrol group. The outcomes considered most important for success were derived from the literature pertaining to…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Community Programs, Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness
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Crevola, Carmel A.; Hill, Peter W. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 1998
Reports results from an initial evaluation of a project to develop and implement a whole-school approach to prevention and intervention in early literacy based on a design similar to "Success for All." Early implementation and outcomes from the first year of implementation in the Victoria (Australia) schools are reported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries