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Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017
In this KIDS COUNT policy report, the Foundation explores the intersection of children, opportunity, race and immigration.The report features updated data for the Race for Results Index, which measures how children are progressing on key milestones by race and ethnicity at the national and state levels.The report also explores the significant…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Barriers
Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Harris, Lauren McArthur; Aponte Martinez, Gerardo; Frasier, Amanda Slaten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This mixed methods study explores how high school students (N = 35) enrolled in a US charter school with a high Latino/a population perform on and perceive (in terms of interest and relevance) document-based type historical reasoning tasks: one about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and the other about the experiences of Mexicans and Mexican Americans…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, High School Students, Charter Schools, United States History
Duncan, Greg, Ed.; Le Menestrel, Suzanne, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2019
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Intervention, Well Being, United States History
Svihla, Vanessa; Reeve, Richard – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
While problem solving is a relatively well understood process, problem framing is less well understood, particularly with regard to supporting students to learn as they frame problems. Project-based learning classrooms are an ideal setting to investigate how teachers facilitate this process. Using participant observation, this study investigated…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Design, Participant Observation
Isaacs, Julia B.; Lou, Cary; Hahn, Heather; Hong, Ashley; Quakenbush, Caleb; Steuerle, C. Eugene – Urban Institute, 2018
Public spending on children aims to support their healthy development, helping them fulfill their human potential. As such, federal spending on children is an investment in the nation's future. To inform policymakers, children's advocates, and the general public about how public funds are spent on children, this 12th edition of the annual…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Federal Aid, Children, Budgets
Morris, Ronald V. – Geography Teacher, 2016
This article describes a lesson plan that encouraged the usage of digital tools to enhance inquiry as a key tool in teaching elementary social studies. The lesson revolved around a field trip to the home of Civil War Governor Oliver P. Morton (Centerville, Indiana). The active, investigative, and questioning nature of inquiry in social studies…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Lesson Plans, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary Education
Sharon Vaughn; Leticia R. Martinez; Jeanne Wanzek; Greg Roberts; Elizabeth Swanson; Anna-Mária Fall – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Supporting the reading comprehension and content knowledge acquisition of English language learners (ELs) requires instructional practices that continue beyond developing the foundational skills of reading. In particular, the challenges ELs face highlight the importance of teaching reading comprehension practices in the middle grades through…
Descriptors: Course Content, Social Studies, Grade 8, Middle School Teachers
Lauff, Erich; Chen, Xianglei; Morgan, Timothy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This Statistics in Brief examines military service among 2002 high school sophomores and the postsecondary enrollment outcomes of those who had served in the military as of 2012, some 8 years after most completed high school in 2004. This cohort had just begun 10th grade when the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred. As of 2012, some…
Descriptors: Military Service, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Military Personnel
Mead, Julie F.; Eckes, Suzanne E. – National Education Policy Center, 2018
Recent reports on discrimination in private schools have led some observers to decry the fact that private and charter schools receiving public tax dollars selectively exclude some populations from both employment and enrollment; others, however, note that in these and similar instances the schools have broken no laws. Both may be right. How can…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance
Derman-Sparks, Louise – Journal of Pedagogy, 2016
This article, written by one of the teachers in the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project (1962-1967), critically examines the prevailing narrative about the preschool project's relationship to the High/Scope Educational Foundation. It describes what the author and other teachers actually did, the principles that informed their practice, and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Longitudinal Studies, Civil Rights, Equal Education
Houston Independent School District, 2016
The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program was developed to increase the number of secondary students who participate in rigorous academic courses, to accelerate student learning, and to improve student performance. The AVID program in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) targets students who (1) are in the academic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Bound Students, School Districts, Acceleration (Education)
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2016
This report provides a brief overview of key component's of Austin Independent School District's federal Title I, Part A program for 2015-2016, including funding, student and teacher demographics, student academic performance, and accountability.
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (Smithsonian Learning Lab), 2017
This white paper describes instructional approaches that apply to successful teaching with the Smithsonian "Learning Lab." After defining its use of terms such as "deeper learning" and "authentic resources" the authors review the research basis of three broad approaches that support integrating digital resources into…
Descriptors: Learning Laboratories, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
The Curriculum Development of Experienced Teachers Who Are Inexperienced with History-Based Pedagogy
Bickford, John H., III – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
Contemporary American education initiatives mandate half of all English language arts content is non-fiction. History topics, therefore, will increase within all elementary and English language arts middle level classrooms. The education initiatives have rigorous expectations for students' close readings of, and written argumentation about,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Studies, History, History Instruction
Rowland, Mark Lance – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Program continues to expand annually with increased numbers of high school students nationwide enrolling in AP courses and taking end-of-course AP exams, in hopes of earning college credit and strengthening high school transcripts. As the College Board promotes increased minority student participation…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, United States History, History Instruction, Teacher Attitudes