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Stewart, Victoria C.; Schlemper, Beth; Shetty, Sujata; Czajkowski, Kevin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Student participation in real-world problems promotes "a sense of their own agency andcollective capacity to alter their neighbourhoods or communities for the better" (Smith, 2007).This paper describes student engagement in a two-week summer workshop conducted in June2016, where they used geospatial technologies and community mapping to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability
Achieve, Inc., 2009
"Perspective" is a monthly e-newsletter presenting news and views from Achieve. This month's issue commences with a commentary assessing the meaning of college- and career-readiness. In doing so, it addresses some of the questions Achieve gets asked most frequently, including: What subjects are most important in defining "Readiness"? What does…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Grants, Newsletters