Resource Spotlight (Search Archive)
Promoting Learning in Rural Schools
Redding, S., & Walberg, H. J. (2012)
Lincoln, IL: Center on Innovation & Improvement
This report synthesizes research on rural schools and offers action recommendations for their improvement, including changing the school culture by addressing student motivation, focusing on effective instructional practice, and employing distance technologies; and influencing students’ out-of-school life by engaging parents, fostering academically constructive out-of-school activities, and employing effective preschool programs.
State Spotlight (Search Archive)
Participation During the First Four Years of Tennessee’s Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (Issues & Answers Report, REL 2011–No. 107)
Grehan, A., Cavalluzzo, L., Gnuschke, J., Hanson, R., Oliver, S., & Vosters, K. (2011, September)
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia
“This study examines the first four years of Tennessee’s Voluntary Prekindergarten program, directed to four-year-olds eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It reviews participation levels and trends for the program as a whole, for collaborative partner classrooms, and for student and district subgroups and discusses the geographic distribution of program sites….This study provides information on growth in Tennessee’s PreK program for states seeking to expand their PreK program capacity.”
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