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Reforming Teacher Education
RAND Corporation 2006; US$ 9.95Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled. One of the latest and most well funded efforts aimed at teacher education reform is boldly titled Teachers for a New Era (TNE). Eleven colleges and universities of various types nationwide were selected to... more...
Hours of Opportunity, Volume 2
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95The second in this three-volume series describes how Wallace Foundation grantees and three other cities used management information systems to collect and use data on out-of-school-time programs, including enrollment, attendance, and outcomes. more...
Hours of Opportunity, Volume 1
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95The first in this three-volume series describes the early work of cities that received a grant from The Wallace Foundation to increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems. more...
Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95RAND gathered information from the 50 states and theDistrict of Columbia (DC) on state assessment systems and studentperformance on reading or English language arts and writing assessments inorder to measure adolescent?s (grades 4 through 12) performance toward stateliteracy goals. more...
Ending Social Promotion Without Leaving Children Behind
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95The New York City Department of Education asked RAND to conduct an independent longitudinal evaluation of its 5th-grade promotion policy. The findings of that study, conducted between March 2006 and August 2009, provide a comprehensive view of the policy's implementation and its impact on student outcomes, particularly for students at risk of retention... more...
Making Summer Count
RAND Corporation 2011; US$ 9.95Students typically lose knowledge and skills during the summer, particularly low-income students. Districts and private providers can benefit from the evidence on summer programming to maximize program effectiveness, quality, reach, and funding. more...
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