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Tuncer, Gaye; Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren; Ertepinar, Hamide – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2005
Patterns of consumption and production are not sustainable in developed/developing countries. In developed countries, the levels of pollution, especially those causing global change, are far too high and trends go in the wrong direction. In developing countries, there is too much strain on the local resource base, and this strain is increasing due…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Population Growth, Life Style, Sustainable Development
Seeley, Cathy – Principal Leadership, 2004
This article addresses some important issues in mathematics instruction at the middle and secondary levels, including the structuring of a district's mathematics program; the choice of textbooks and use of calculators in the classroom; the need for more rigorous lesson planning practices; and the dangers of teaching to standardized tests rather…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Eischens, Alissa; Komro, Kelli A.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Bosma, Linda M.; Farbakhsh, Kian – American Journal of Health Education, 2004
The Minnesota Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Plus project augmented the DARE curriculum with community, parent involvement, and extracurricular activity components. Of the 24 schools in the DARE Plus project, the 8 receiving the DARE Plus intervention are examined in this study. The association of participation in the extracurricular…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Intervention, Smoking, Drug Education
Furlong, Michael J.; Felix, Erika D.; Sharkey, Jill D.; Tanigawa, Diane; Green, Jennifer G.; Gonzalez, Mabel; Gerula, Kelly; Michaca, Sarita – Online Submission, 2007
Although accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and the evaluation of bullying prevention programs, assessment has been called the "Achilles' heel" of bullying research (Cornell, Sheras, & Cole, 2006). Problems have been cited about variations in definitions and time frames used, whether or not to…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Bullying, Screening Tests, Incidence
Grupp, Laurie L. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
The National Research Council (NRC) report on the disproportionate representation of minority students in special and gifted education represents an opportunity to draw national attention to the challenges faced by educators as they attempt to provide high-quality educational opportunities for students from culturally and linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Gifted, Linguistics, Academic Achievement, Disproportionate Representation
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2003
The present study tried to find out whether Saudi history textbooks for grades 4-12 contain global themes, in which grade levels global themes are introduced, the percentage of global themes, local history themes and Islamic history themes, and which global history themes are taught. A checklist of global history themes was developed. Those are:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 4
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Vu, Maihan B.; Murrie, Dale; Gonzalez, Vivian; Jobe, Jared B. – Health Education & Behavior, 2006
As part of the formative assessment for the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG), a multicenter study to reduce the decline of physical activity in adolescent girls, girls and boys with diverse ethnicity from six states participated in focus groups and semistructured interviews. Data from 13 girls' focus groups (N = 100), 11 boys' focus…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Physical Activity Level, Focus Groups
Batchelder, Michelle – Online Submission, 2001
This report summarizes results from the 1999-2000 evaluation of the Austin Collaborative for Mathematics Education in AISD.
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2008
Researchers and policymakers have pointed to the lagging scores of eighth graders on international, national, and state assessments as evidence that students are not prepared to meet high academic standards and that middle grades reform is needed. In response to these concerns, educators have introduced reforms designed to provide middle-level…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Grade 8
Segel, David; Wellman, Frank E.; Hamilton, Allen T. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
A substantial number of students drop out of high school at or below the tenth grade. Approximately 35 percent of those entering the ninth grade do not complete high school, and another large group goes through high school avoiding on the one hand direct training in vocational education and on the other the sequences in high school which will…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Guidance Programs, Career Guidance, School Guidance
Preston, James T.; Clark, W. B.; Glessner, H. H.; Hennessey, D. L. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin demonstrates that Berkeley, California's educational problem is and has been that of meeting the varied needs of a population such as may be found in any typical American city. The varied population needs, together with the rapid growth, have brought many difficult problems to Berkeley, just has they have to other cities. Based on…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, School Counseling, School Organization, Counseling Services
Huss, John A. – Current Issues in Education, 2004
A descriptive study examined the degree to which middle level teachers in grades 6-8 in three states accept the tenets of the middle school philosophy. The guiding questions were: (1) Does a cross difference in variables exist among teachers from different organizational settings or grade configurations in respect to the teacher's acceptance of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Philosophy, Statistical Analysis, Certification
Epstein, Michael H.; Mooney, Paul; Ryser, Gail; Pierce, Corey D. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
Objective: This article reports findings of three studies addressing convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Youth Rating Scale of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale-Second Edition (BERS-2). Method: Pearson product-moment correlations were used in all three studies, the first two addressing convergent validity and the third…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Behavior Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
White, Richard N.; Williams, Imeh J.; Haslem, M. Bruce – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2005
Community School District 23 (CSD 23) in Region 5 of the New York City public schools serves students who reside in central Brooklyn. The district enrolls approximately 12,800 students in grades K-8 in 18 schools. Scholastic READ 180 is one of several reading interventions that the district is using to improve student performance. The staff of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Reading Programs, Intervention