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Shari Clarke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students in Title 1 school districts continue to fall far behind their peers academically in comparison to neighboring suburban districts. School reform has unsuccessfully attempted to improve test scores by consistently changing reading curriculums and mandating the use of various resources that fail when implemented. Struggling school districts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Karen Ramlackhan; Yan Wang – Urban Education, 2024
We used the Stanford education data archive (SEDA) data to examine the heterogeneity among urban school districts in the United States. The SEDA 2.1 includes data sets on students' mathematics (Math) and English language arts (ELA) achievement from 2008 to 2014 at the district level. Growth mixture modeling was used to uncover the underlying…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Education, English Curriculum
Louisiana Department of Education, 2022
ELA Guidebooks is an English language arts curriculum for core instruction. Made by teachers for teachers, the ELA Guidebooks units ensure all students can read, understand, and express their understanding of complex, grade-level texts, ensuring their readiness for college or a career. Each text collection has a shared idea and contains authentic…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, English Instruction
Watson, Ashley Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study looks at a student writing culture in a fifth grade English language arts classroom through the lens of Foucauldian power dynamics to examine the power relationships in the classroom and curriculum. The research questions were: (1) What is the nature of a writing culture in a fifth-grade writing classroom?; (2) What are students'…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Classroom Environment, Writing Instruction, Power Structure
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Kaya, Suat – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
It is aimed, in this study, to compare the achievement level of the students taught with the fifth grade intensive English language curriculum (IELC) and the ones taught with the fifth grade English language curriculum (ELC) in terms of their speaking skills. With this aim, it is also intended to find out the failure behind the students' speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Second Language Learning
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Cloonan, Anne – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
Curriculum guidelines, including the emergent Australian curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2009-10), indicate expectations that teachers will support their students' interpretation and creation of multimodal texts. However, English curriculum guidelines are yet to advise on a detailed metalanguage to…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Literacy, Teachers, Metalinguistics
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Bracken, Bruce; Feng, Annie; Brown, Elissa – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
A longitudinal study of student growth gains was conducted in Title I schools to assess growth in reading comprehension and critical thinking. Results suggested that all students benefited from the intervention of Project Athena units of study designed for high-ability learners. In addition, the study suggested that the comparison curriculum also…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Program Effectiveness