Healthy Schools Program Evaluation: Year 1 Update

Assesses the early impact of RWJF's program to provide technical assistance, resource brokering, and online tools to help schools promote physical activity and meet healthy foods and beverages standards. Examines improvement levels by school traits

Financial knowledge: a literature review examining financial knowledge among male and female high school students

Includes bibliographical references

Examining Spillover Effects from Teach For America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Despite a large body of evidence documenting the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA) corps members at raising the math test scores of their students, little is known about the program's impact at the school level. TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), where large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, provides an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the TFA program on broader school performance. This study examines whether the influx of TFA corps members led to a spillover effect on other teachers' performance. We find that many of the schools chosen to participate in the cluster strategy experienced large subsequent gains in math achievement. These gains were driven in part by the composition effect of having larger numbers of effective TFA corps members. However, we do not find any evidence that the clustering strategy led to any spillover effect on school-wide performance. In other words, our estimates suggest that extra student gains for TFA corps members under the clustering strategy would be equivalent to the gains that would result from an alternate placement strategy where corps members were evenly distributed across schools

The development and evaluation of exercises for group response to word meaning for increasing the speed of word recognition in grade I

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

C++QED: An object-oriented framework for wave-function simulations of cavity QED systems

We present a framework for efficiently performing Monte Carlo wave-function simulations in cavity QED with moving particles. It relies heavily on the object-oriented programming paradigm as realised in C++, and is extensible and applicable for simulating open interacting quantum dynamics in general. The user is provided with a number of ``elements'', eg pumped moving particles, pumped lossy cavity modes, and various interactions to compose complex interacting systems, which contain several particles moving in electromagnetic fields of various configurations, and perform wave-function simulations on such systems. A number of tools are provided to facilitate the implementation of new elements.Comment: 31 pages, 8 figures, 3 table

Development and evaluation of silent reading exercises for grade one,

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Increasing Physical Activity Through Recess

Summarizes research on the effects of recess, including its benefits as an effective and efficient way to increase the amount of physical activity and enhance academic performance and trends in daily recess by school location and student population