McPheeter’s Bend Elementary

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Renee Bernard, McPheeter’s Bend Elementary School First Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Renee Bernard, Principal McPheeter’s Bend Elementary School 1115 Goshen Valley Road Church Hill, TN 37642 Hawkins County Schools Visit website Click here for Renee Bernard’s Recipe for Success     Materials related to the McPheeter’s Bend Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event Articles on this award from the Kingsport Times-News and The Rogersville Review PDF of School Performance Chart showing McPheeter’s Bend Elementary’s … Read More

Boones Creek Elementary

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Teresa Leonard, Boones Creek Elementary School Second Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Teresa Leonard, Principal Boones Creek Elementary School 348 Christian Church Road Gray, TN 37615 Washington County Schools Visit website Click here for Teresa Leonard’s Recipe for Success     Materials related to the Boones Creek Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Boones Creek Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a … Read More

Boones Creek Elementary School

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Teresa Leonard, Boones Creek Elementary School Second Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Teresa Leonard, Principal Boones Creek Elementary School 348 Christian Church Road Gray, TN 37615 Washington County Schools Visit website Click here for Teresa Leonard’s Recipe for Success     Materials related to the Boones Creek Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Boones Creek Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a chart that shows … Read More

Andersonville Elementary School

2014 Value-Added Achievement Awards Winner: Beth Roeder, Andersonville Elementary School Third Place, Eastern Division, Elementary Schools Beth Roeder, Principal Andersonville Elementary School 1951 Mountain Road Andersonville, TN, 37705 Anderson County Schools Visit website Click here for Beth Roeder’s Recipe for Success Materials related to the Andersonville Elementary School recognition ceremony: Press release from the event PDF of School Performance Chart showing Andersonville Elementary’s ranking; or visit ECF’s online interactive tool to make a chart that shows other schools by name PDF of … Read More

Facing the Classroom Challenge

Facing the Classroom Challenge, Teacher Quality and Teacher Training in California’s Schools of Education (click here for full article) (click here to download a PDF of this article) By Lance T. Izumi and K. Gwynne Coburn San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 2001.   Briefing Finally, someone has put their finger on the problem: Schools may want to improve but the teaching skills taught to their teachers aren’t up to the job In Facing the Classroom Challenge, … Read More

Parents and School

The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education The following material was excerpted from Chapter 2. Parents and Schools is not available online.   The Peripheral Parent: Making the Most of Marginality In the 1920S, there was widespread support in the United States for the idea that parents and teachers should work together. However, Americans were still uncertain about the nature and extent of this cooperation. It remained unclear to what degree parents should join in the education … Read More

Schoolbook Simplification

Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores (click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By Donald P. Hayes, Loreen T. Wolfer, and Michael F. Wolfe American Educational Research Journal, 33(2), 1996, pp. 489-508.   Briefing Eighth grade reading materials of today are no more difficult than the 5th grade texts of 1945. That is exactly what is reported in one of education’s most widely respected journals. Writing … Read More

Home Environments for Learning

Walberg, H.J. & Paik, S.J. 1997. Home environments for learning. In: Walberg, H.J. & Haertel, G.D., eds. Psychology and educational practice, p. 356-68. Berkeley, CA, McCutchan Publishing. This chapter emphasizes the influence of the home environment on learning within and outside school. It summarizes research on the home environment including home-based reinforcement, home instruction, homework, and other educational and psychological activities in the home. This work suggests that alterable features of the home environment may be changed to … Read More

Private Sector Alternatives for Preventing Reading Failure

Groff, P.  (1987).  Private sector alternatives for preventing reading failure, Washington, DC:  National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Editor’s note:  Chapters IV-VI contain outdated names, addresses, and references, and therefore were omitted _________________ A directory of national organizations providing a rationale for their need;  An assessment of the professional training they provide for prospective or inservice teachers of reading By Patrick Groff, Professor of Education San Diego State University   I. Introduction The major purpose of … Read More

Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students’ Motivation to Learn

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(click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003   Briefing On the surface, the recommendations made by the National Research Council in its December 2003 report, Engaging Schools, seem reasonable enough. The report deals with student motivation and ways that high schools can foster it. One cannot argue with its goals: to create … Read More

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