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| Educators discuss the America's Choice design. |
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| A Commitment to Evaluation |
| Since schools first began using the America's Choice design in 1998, we have recognized the importance of evaluating our schools' academic performance and we have sought out such evaluations. |
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| We have used the results of the America's Choice evaluations to ensure that our schools are meeting the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, to set local school achievement targets, to plan instruction, and to strengthen our program. |
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| New Summary Report |
| A new report, Results! From Schools, Districts, and States Using the America's Choice School Design documents outstanding student-achievement gains by the America's Choice school-improvement program. The report illustrates how the America's Choice program helps students meet state standards, reduces achievement gaps, and is particularly powerful for schools' lowest-achieving students. Much of the report is discussed below. The entire document is available to download, or you may request a printed copy of the report. |
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| Members of the media can find the report and information about the America's Choice School Design at our Press Room. |
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| Research Findings |
| The report includes impressive results gathered by respected, third-party researchers and by the America's Choice research unit. |
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| Three of the external evaluations of the America's Choice program were conducted by the highly regarded Consortium for Policy Research (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania. They document the performance of the America's Choice program in Rochester, New York, Plainfield, New Jersey, and Duval County, Florida. A fourth study, a "meta-analysis" of 232 school reform studies, was conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johns Hopkins University. |
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| School Profiles |
| The report also takes readers inside seven schools that have raised student achievement dramatically under the America's Choice program. They serve students with different needs from many different backgrounds. Most of the schools were low-performers that the America's Choice program has helped turn around. Individual schools, school systems, and states have adopted the America's Choice program; it provides school solutions, district solutions and state solutions. |
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| School Solutions |
| P.S. 160 in Brooklyn, New York, has helped its students, a majority of whom are low-income Asian Americans, improve their reading scores dramatically. |
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| Castle Park High School, in Chula Vista, California, has helped its struggling readers make impressive gains using the America's Choice Ramp-Up to Advanced Literacy program. |
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| District Solutions |
| Emerson Elementary School, in the working-class suburb of Plainfield, New Jersey, has made the America's Choice reading program the centerpiece of its transitional bilingual program. |
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| Twin Lakes Academy Elementary, in Jacksonville, Florida, has transformed itself from an average suburban school to an outstanding school using the America's Choice program. |
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| The profile of Fieldcrest Elementary, in Oak Forest, Illinois, focuses on the many ways that the America's Choice program supports schools that use the America's Choice design. |
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| State Solutions |
| Summerville Middle School in rural Summerville, Georgia, has made impressive gains in math. |
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| Another rural Georgia school, Claxton Elementary, has used the America's Choice program to great effect with special education students. |
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