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 intervention programs have powerful effects
Instructional improvement intervention programs like Accelerated Schools, America's Choice, and Success For All can have powerful effects on the enacted curriculum.

Surveys of Learning Reveal Strengths, Weaknesses
UW–Madison education professor Eric Camburn and Sociology graduate student Seong Won Han set out to remedy that. They reviewed and analyzed evidence on instruction from all surveys conducted between 1987 and 2005 that used nationally representative samples to measure classroom instruction. Camburn and Han reviewed 145 studies that used data from 19 national surveys to investigate instruction. They found that: * More than half the studies used data at least a decade old; * Few studies examined instruction during important transition years such as 6th and 9th grade; and * Subject-area emphasis was lopsided (mathematics and science instruction received much greater attention than English/language arts and social studies).