REMEDIAL EDUCATION REFORM: Private Alternatives to Traditional Title 1. Policy Study # 266.REMEDIAL REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. EDUCATION REFORM: Private Alternatives to Traditional Title 1. Policy Study # 266. Lisa Snell Snell , George 1903-1996. American geneticist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning cell structure that enhanced understanding of the immunological system, resulting in higher success rates in organ transplantation. with Lindsay Anderson. Reason Public Policy Institute. 37 pp. This report reviews the background of Title 1 and discusses issues related to funding inequities. Authors review research related to the effectiveness of two service delivery models: pull-out programs that take students out of regularly scheduled classes for additional instruction, and programs that reform an entire school. Currently, several urban school districts contract with private agencies, such as Sylvan Learning Sylvan Learning (formerly Sylvan Learning Center) is a chain of franchised tutoring centers which provide personalized tutoring in reading, writing, mathematics, study skills and test-prep for college entrance and state exams. Systems, Kaplan Learning Services, and Huntington Learning Centers, to help those students most in need. Private programs that work successfully within public schools are characterized by student centeredness, parental involvement, instructional guarantees, staff development, individual diagnostic assessments, innovative reward systems, low teacher-student ratios, performance benchmarks, and competition among remedial agencies. The study recommends the use of Title 1 funds in a wider array of experimental programs that offer academic performance guarantees. The authors of this policy study believe schools should be required to monitor the academic performance of individual students, and that failure to achieve progress should be penalized pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. . Copies are available for $15 from Reason Public Policy Institute, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CA 90034; 310-391-2245. Or, you may download the report for free from the RPPI RPPI Reason Public Policy Institute RPPI Renewable Power Production Incentive RPPI Reliability-Prediction Prioritization Index RPPI Repeater Plan Position Indicator Web site, at http:// www.rpi.org/ps266central.html. |
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