Giving NCLB an A-PLUS boost: the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act would promote greater local control in education while maintaining accountability through state-level testing and information reporting to parents to ensure transparency.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOR MORE THAN four decades, Congress has sought to improve public education by creating new Federal programs and increasing spending. In Fiscal Year 2007, the Federal government spent $23,500,000,000 on programs that fall under the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, now called...

The role of feedback during academic testing: the delay retention effect revisited.
The introduction of the teaching-testing machine by Pressey (1926) prompted the development of numerous techniques through which immediate feedback during multiple-choice and alternative-choice questions could be delivered. The teaching machine described by Skinner (1958) not only presented immediate feedback, but also transformed the role of the student from a...

Provision of feedback during preparation for academic testing: learning is enhanced by immediate but not delayed feedback.
During the past five years Epstein and his colleagues have been refining and validating an assessment procedure known as the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique, or IF AT (Dihoff, Brosvic, & Epstein, 2003; Epstein, Brosvic, Dihoff, Lazarus, & Costner, 2003; Epstein, Epstein, & Brosvic, 2001; Epstein, Lazarus, Calvano, Matthews, Hendel,...

Sharing stories at the library; Northboro mixes playing, learning for child, parent.
Byline: Susan Spencer NORTHBORO - How do children become readers? How do they learn how to learn? Child development specialists say the secret isn't in fancy flash cards or electronic gizmos. It's not in academic testing at younger and younger ages. It's in the simple practices of...

Peter J. Lustig; Twin City Christian School, Lunenburg.
AGE: 18 HOMETOWN: Townsend PARENTS: Curtis and Naomi Lustig HONORS AND AWARDS: Honor Roll, four years; highest class average, junior year; first place, MACS State Poetry and Essay Competition; first place, MACS Academic Testing for Advanced Math, two years; first place, MACS Academic...

Effects of self-determination interventions on the academic skills of students with learning disabilities.
Abstract. Given the importance of both academic and self-determination skills for students with disabilities, it is important to identify efficient ways to deliver instruction in these essential areas. This literature review synthesizes intervention research that has examined the effects of self-determination interventions on academic skills for students with learning...

Meta-I Technologies.
BANGALORE: If your friend or relative happened to come to Bangalore recently, to take up the entrance test for private engineering or medical colleges in the state, they would have been put through the paces by an IT firm. COMED-K or the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and...

Educational options: the new tradition: no longer the stepchild of the K-12 system, educational options have become an integral part of the comprehensive high schools' array of school choices.
Educational options, formerly known as "alternative education," have long been a quietly unassuming part of public education. Often the stepchild of the K-12 system, continuation and independent studies schools--as well as an array of county schools, community day schools and others--were considered the home of "alternative" students taught by...

Team-based learning in an Industrial/Organizational Psychology course.
A team-based learning approach used in an undergraduate Industrial/Organizational Psychology course required students to develop their own company using industrial/organizational psychological principles. The course structure as well as a pretest/posttest evaluation of student knowledge and perceptions is discussed. The results indicate that students found the team-based learning approach both...

Does Measurement Measure Up? How Numbers Reveal and Conceal the Truth.
DOES MEASUREMENT MEASURE UP? How Numbers Reveal and Conceal the Truth JOHN M. HENSHAW People use measurements to quantify and analyze just about everything: time, weight, sports records, school grades. Henshaw poses tough questions about people's dependence on measurements. For example, can some things, such as intelligence,...