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...
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...
Recent Comments