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Liu, Edward; DeLisi, Jacqueline; Fields, Erica; Almquist-Cevallos, Kristen – Educational Leadership, 2022
There are many important questions teachers and administrators need to ask as they grapple with how to ensure high school graduates are college and career ready. What does it mean to prepare students for a world that is rapidly changing--a world in which science and technology are altering how we live, work, play, and interact? If teachers focus…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Low Income Students
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2021
This executive summary report includes results for Austin Partners in Education (APIE) programs in 2019-2020 including math classroom coaching, GEAR UP tutoring, college readiness, and mentoring. It highlights continued academic programs serving students in middle and high school and describes APIE support provided to teachers' instruction. As…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Coaching (Performance), Mathematics Instruction
Coco, Marlena; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2019
This is an executive summary of a full report that includes results for Austin Partners in Education (APIE) programs in 2018-2019 including math classroom coaching, GEAR UP tutoring, college readiness, and mentoring. It highlights continued academic support programs serving students in 8th grade math classroom coaching and 12th grade college…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Coaching (Performance), Mathematics Instruction
Torres, D. Diego – Houston Independent School District, 2019
Despite its promise to help teachers meet the needs of diverse learners, district usage of Achieve3000® among most students with access to it remains far below the optimal level necessary for them to realize literacy growth and college and career readiness. Only a tiny minority of students (402 out of about 111,000) seem to be engaging Achieve3000…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Individualized Instruction, Middle School Students, High School Students
Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2021
This report includes results for Austin Partners in Education (APIE) programs in 2019-2020 including math classroom coaching, GEAR UP tutoring, college readiness, and mentoring. It highlights continued academic programs serving students in middle and high school and describes APIE support provided to teachers' instruction. As classroom instruction…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Coaching (Performance), Mathematics Instruction
Coco, Marlena; Looby, Karen; Leung, Jenny; Minney, Dana; Wang, Crystal; Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2019
This report includes results for Austin Partners in Education (APIE) programs in 2018-2019 including math classroom coaching, GEAR UP tutoring, college readiness, and mentoring. It highlights continued academic support programs serving students in 8th grade math classroom coaching and 12th grade college readiness programs, as well as, provides…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Coaching (Performance), Mathematics Instruction
Dougherty, Chrys – ACT, Inc., 2014
Educators and policymakers have set a goal that all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. A substantial body of research supports the idea that the path to college and career readiness begins well before middle and high school. In an earlier policy report, ACT examined the percentage of academically far off track…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, At Risk Students, Grade 4
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Chung, C. J. ChanJin; Cartwright, Christopher; Cole, Matthew – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2014
Robotics competitions for K-12 students are popular, but are students really learning and improving their STEM scores through robotics competitions? If not, why not? If they are, how much more effective is learning through competitions than traditional classes? Is there room for improvement? What is the best robotics competition model to maximize…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Competition, Teaching Methods