Kindergarten - 12th grade - Action Team Resources

Connor, C.M., Son, S., Hindman, A., Morrison, F. J., June 2005. “Teacher qualifications, classroom practices, family characteristics, and preschool experience: Complex effects on first graders’ vocabulary and early reading outcomes.” Journal of School Psychology 43, pp. 343-375.

 

http://www.doe.in.gov/communications/parents.html. Information for parents to support student success from the Indiana Department of Education.

 

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, National Conference of State Legislatures, National Association of State Board of Education, and council of chief State School Officers, 2008. “Accelerating the agenda: Actions to improve America’s high schools.”

 

Scales, P.C. & Benson, P.L., December 2006. “Toward quality and equality: Fulfilling our promises to America’s children and youth.” Search Institute Insights & Evidence, 3(2), 1-10. Available for free downloading at www.search-institute.org/research/Insights.

 

Sum, Andrew and Ishwar Khatiwada, October 2009. “The Consequences of Dropping Out of School, Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers.” Research paper was prepared to outline the employment, earnings, incarceration, teen and young adult parenting experiences and family incomes of the nation’s young adult high school dropouts and their better educated peers in 2006 to 2008.