Illinois Horizon Schools: Initial Research Findings from the Illinois Schools to Watch Program

Assessing the Status of Environmental Education in Illinois Elementary Schools

One-thousand Illinois elementary teachers received a survey intended to assess the amount and manner in which they included environmental education in the classroom during the 2005 academic year. Over 91% of respondents (n = 234) said that they taught about the environment at least once during the school year, yet most students were only exposed to 22 to 100 minutes during that year. Of the tea...

The Illinois elder abuse system: program description and administrative findings.

In this article we describe the Illinois statewide elder abuse social service program, which is unusual in its comprehensive approach to the assessment and documentation of reported cases of abuse and its extensive data monitoring system. Descriptive information on the number and types of cases of elder abuse reported to the system are presented, along with information on the amount of social w...

Effect of Teacher Pay on Student Performance: Findings from Illinois

This product is part of the RAND Education working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers' latest findings and to solicit additional peer review. This paper has been peer reviewed but not edited. Unless otherwise indicated, working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author, provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND's p...

Evaluation of Community Schools: findings to date

The purpose of this paper is to summarize data from available evaluations of community school initiatives. Part One provides a vision of community schools, discusses the nature and limitations of existing research, and offers a summary of findings from 49 community school initiatives. Three examples of evaluations are included in Part One in order to illustrate the scope of efforts underway. Pa...

Lost Chance of Survival in Illinois: The Need for Guidance from the Illinois Supreme Court