The academic interventions for students in the Delsea Regional School District who fail the New Jersey GEPA are not addressing all reasons for the failure. Students who do not pass the Grade 8 test go on to have higher dropout and transfer rates...
Age, Cuttoff Dates, School Entry, Student Outcomes
This executive position paper proposes recommendations for improving student academic outcomes through effective student grouping. It examines data for students at Delcroft School and reviews scholarly research surrounding the relationship between...
Adolescents, Improvement, Middle, Motivation, School
Effectively addressing the unique developmental and academic needs of adolescents is a challenge that educators have been grappling with since the mid-1960's when school systems began to convert junior high schools into middle schools. While...
This non-experimental study attempted to determine how the different prescribed mathematic tracks offered at a comprehensive technical high school influenced the mathematics performance of low-achieving students on standardized assessments of...
There are many advantages supporting the use of computers as an alternate mode of delivery for high stakes testing: cost savings, increased test security, flexibility in test administrations, innovations in items, and reduced scoring time. The...
Charter schools performance, Competitive effect, Pennsylvania System of School Assessment results, School effectiveness, Traditional public school performance
This study is relevant to parents, private organizations, and the educational
system interested in discovering whether charter school students perform better
academically than traditional public elementary school students. The Pennsylvania
System...
My capstone experience involved participation in the Eastern Shore Faculty Academy and Mentorship initiative (ES-FAMI) sponsored by Salisbury University, Chesapeake College, and Sojourner-Douglas College. The program included meetings and...
The purpose of this descriptive study is to examine the factors that influenced
parents in a school district in Delaware when they selected a high school for their
child. This study also sought to examine the sources of information that parents...
In the 2009-10 school year, Oxford Area School District [OASD] in southeastern Pennsylvania implemented a full day kindergarten program. OASD intended to provide a more rigorous educational experience for students as they begin their formal...
High Stakes Testing, Inclusion, No Child Left Behind, Teacher Perception
Recently, federal legislation has been implemented requiring that public school students meet a specified performance level of academic proficiency by the 2013/2014 school year. This reform movement, known as "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB), was...
Achievement Gap, Best Practices in Teaching, Instruction, Leadership, Learning Focused Solutions, Student Achievement
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the preliminary implementation of the Learning Focused Solutions Model in the three high schools in the Brandywine School District and its impact on student achievement. A mixed methods design was...
learning mentor, learning mentors, mentor, student mentor, student support mentor, support mentor
There are at least 4,500 mentoring agencies in America, and at least 2.5 million children being mentored (DuBois &Karcher, 2005 & Rhodes, 2002). America is not making the gains academically as it once was. Students are in need of more academic as...
The purpose of this study was to determine if an integrated mathematics and science instructional approach in which students apply their knowledge to solve engineering problems, is effective in increasing students' science and mathematics,...
Laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at an Adjourned Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover, on Tuesday, the Ninth Day of January, A. D. 1866. Volume 13.
Laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at a Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover, on Tuesday, the Fifth Day of January, A. D. 1875. Volume 15.
Laws of the State of Delaware, Passed at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover, Thursday, on May 31st, A. D. 1906. Volume XXIV
Laws of the State of Delaware, Passed at a Special Session of the Ninety-Fourth General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover on Monday, September 28th, A. D. 1914. Volume XXVIII
Laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at the Ninety-Sixth Session of the General Assembly. Commenced and Held at Dover on Tuesday, January 2d, A. D. 1917. Volume XXIX.
Laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at a Special Session of the Ninety-Sixth General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover on Monday, March 11th, A. D. 1918. The Ninety-Seventh Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover on...
Laws of the State of Delaware, Passed at the Special Session of the Ninety-Seventh General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover on Monday, March 22, A. D. 1920, Volume XXXI.
