by admin | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Years ago,we were surprised to discover that North Carolina awarded 4 different high school diplomas. We evaluated a lot of National Science Foundation (NSF) grants that provided poor and minority kids with fabulous enrichment and rigorous experiences, and we’d...
by admin | Oct 30, 2019 | Slider
We have evaluated many grant-funded literacy programs. Title 1 funds have been for providing services to low-income students, and have been traditionally used to support remedial literacy programs. We see that poor reading skills and low income are very strongly...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
Once we were helping a Title 1 elementary school write it’s School Improvement Plan. We started by using their school data to make a Data Profile for them, so they could visualize their school in terms of data. We inventoried the remedial programs and services they...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A large school district hired Edstar to evaluate the effectiveness of a federal grant-funded program that was designed with the goal of having long-term suspended students re-enroll in school after serving their suspension, and be successful. The grant paid for...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
We have worked with many school systems to help them use data to close their achievement gaps. The most effective thing we have seen is to use data to align services. This includes enrolling top scoring students into the most rigorous courses. We have seen that...
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