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Featured Publication
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The Challenge of Scaling Up Educational Reform
Findings and Lessons from First Things First
2005. Janet Quint, Howard S. Bloom, Alison Rebeck Black, and LaFleur Stephens with Theresa M. Akey.
In Kansas City, Kansas, middle and high school students who participated in a comprehensive school reform initiative called First Things First registered increased rates of attendance and graduation, reduced dropout rates, and improved performance on state tests of reading and mathematics. Research results in four districts where First Things First was later replicated -- Houston, the Riverview Gardens School District in suburban St. Louis, and the Greenville and Shaw districts in Mississippi -- are less certain: It is not yet clear whether these expansion sites, which had operated the initiative for only two or three years at the time of the study, will achieve the impressive findings produced in Kansas City.
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All Scaling Up First Things First Publications
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Student Context, Student Attitudes and Behavior, and Academic Achievement
An Exploratory Analysis
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2006. Theresa M. Akey
This analysis of data collected in MDRC’s evaluation of the First Things First reform initiative confirms that high school students’ engagement in school and perceptions of their own academic competence influence their mathematics achievement. The study also suggests that perceived academic competence may be more influential than engagement in boosting achievement in both mathematics and reading.
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The Challenge of Scaling Up Educational Reform
Findings and Lessons from First Things First
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2005. Janet Quint, Howard S. Bloom, Alison Rebeck Black, and LaFleur Stephens with Theresa M. Akey.
First Things First, a comprehensive school reform initiative, increased student achievement in Kansas City, Kansas, the first school district to adopt the reform model. It is not yet clear if First Things First is working in four other school districts in which it has been replicated.
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Conducting Classroom Observations in First Things First Schools
Working Paper
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2004. Angela Estacion, Teresa McMahon, Janet Quint, with Bernice Melamud and LaFleur Stephens.
Relying on 427 classroom observations conducted over a three-year period, this study traces changes in teachers’ instructional practices in the First Things First schools.
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Scaling Up First Things First
Findings from the First Implementation Year
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2003. Janet C. Quint, D. Crystal Byndloss.
Based on survey data and findings from interviews and observations, this report describes the First Things First reform initiative and its first year of implementation at seven secondary schools, with a focus on three key components: small learning communities, a family advocacy system, and instructional improvement strategies.
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First Things First
Creating the Conditions and Capacity for Community-Wide Reform in an Urban School District
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Gambone & Associates.
2002. Michelle Alberti Gambone, Ph.D., Adena M. Klem, Ph.D., William P. Moore, Ph.D., Jean Ann Summers, Ph.D.
Take a look inside the Kansas City, Kansas (KCK)
public schools and you will find challenges facing
any urban district: insufficient funding, large
numbers of at-risk students, declining enrollment
and teacher shortages. You will also see teachers
working in teams and staying with their students
for more than one year, lower ratios of students to
teachers in key classes and extra time built into the
day for professional development.
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Scaling Up First Things First
Site Selection and the Planning Year
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2002. Janet C. Quint.
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