by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A school system was delivering remedial reading instruction to all students who received free lunch. This was to satisfy a NCLB sanction for not making adequate yearly progress with all subgroups. The goal of the intervention was to bring the students to grade level...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A university education department realized that using data-driven decisions and aligning research-based interventions with student needs was being favored in getting federal Department of Education grants. They wrote a grant proposal and included Edstar in it to have...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A grant-funded program’s purpose was to help students who are not proficient in math pass a required algebra course so they could graduate on time. Edstar was to evaluate the effectiveness of this program towards this objective. A grant-funded program’s purpose was...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A grant-writer for a school system told me she was supposed to report what the demographic makeup of a school would be if the magnet school recruited and enrolled specific numbers of minority students. She told me that she thought the kids would have to be there...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Slider
A school system hired Edstar to evaluate all of their dropout prevention programs in the district. They were wanting to move toward using data-driven decisions rather than professional judgement. This was a medium to large district. There were a lot of high...
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