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Tadlock, J. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2022
In this case study, learn how the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) partnered with 12 schools in Jefferson County, Alabama, to form networked improvement communities focused on promoting meaningful, sustainable change. Their goal was simple yet bold: Harness improvement science and continuous improvement strategies to accelerate eighth- and…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Blacks, African American Students
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Amy J. Anderson; Hannah Carson Baggett; Carey E. Andrzejewski; Sean A. Forbes – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The aim of this paper is to explore high school students' critical consciousness development in the context of youth participatory action research (YPAR) focused on food security at an alternative school in Alabama. The YPAR project took place in an elective agriscience class with 10 students (Seven Black, two white, one Latino) who were in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Milligan, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has placed increased accountability for outcomes on both students and teachers. To address the current youth literacy crisis in the United States, the CCSS call for students to read increasingly complex informational and literary texts. Since teachers are held accountable for students'…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Teacher Made Tests, Benchmarking, Language Arts
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Peterson, Deborah S. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
This article describes two approaches to improving literacy in a high poverty, diverse urban high school. One curriculum program, "Striving Readers," included a prescribed course of study for students reading below grade level along with schoolwide strategies. This approach did not improve targeted students' reading scores or motivation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Literacy Education, Civil Rights
Showalter, Daniel A. – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2012
Place-based mathematics education (PBME) has the potential to engage students with the mathematics inherent in the local land, culture, and community. However, research has identified daunting barriers to this pedagogy, especially in abstract mathematics courses such as algebra and beyond. In this study, 15 graduates of a doctoral program in rural…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Mathematics Education, Rural Education, Statistics
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2009
The "International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. It contains the following papers: (1) Teacher Perceptions of Authentic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Professional Development in an African American High School's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies