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Bailey A. Brown; Amber R. Reed – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2023
The Georgia Department of Education has clearly defined standards for learning about Africa in the seventh grade. However, there exists great variation in how textbooks present this material and address these standards. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, we assess the presentation of Africa in three widely used Georgia social studies…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
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Vandenbussche, Jennifer; Ritter, Lake; Callahan, Kadian M.; Westlund, Erik E. – PRIMUS, 2021
In this article, the authors propose a department-level curricular committee structure, called Strand Committees, as a mechanism to facilitate oversight and enact significant change to policies and practices in specific courses. The primary goal of the Strand Committees is improving both student success and instruction while upholding a high…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
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Jennifer Ervin; Madison Gannon – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
We compare the institutional standards and expectations for English language arts (ELA) educators from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the leading professional organization in this field, and the state of Georgia. By conducting a critical policy analysis of documents from NCTE and the Georgia Department of Education (GADoE) we…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English Teachers, English Instruction
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Melville, Wayne; Peacock, Jeremy – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2017
This article draws together Narrative Positioning Analysis and a Bourdieuian perspective to investigate the relationship between the position of the chair, their disposition towards reforms, and the impact on departmental learning. Our analysis indicates two major conclusions. First, there is a disconnect between chairs' leadership dispositions…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Departments, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change
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Noltemeyer, Amity; Petrasek, Michael; Stine, Karen; Palmer, Katelyn; Meehan, Cricket; Jordan, Emily – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2018
With the increasing use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) nationally, several states have developed systems to recognize exemplar schools that are implementing PBIS with fidelity. These systems serve the dual purpose of identifying model PBIS schools for other schools to emulate while also reinforcing schools' effective PBIS…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Models, Program Implementation, State Departments of Education
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McCollough, Christopher J. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2020
Scholarship on service-learning demonstrates a variety of benefits to students, faculty, and the university. One clear benefit beyond these is the ability of service-learning to support and advance a university's civic mission within its community and region. This article offers an account of the use of service-learning in a collaborative project…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Economic Development, Rural Development, Universities
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Hedger, Joseph – State Education Standard, 2020
The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program, written into the Every Student Succeeds Act, gives up to seven state educational agencies the opportunity to launch innovative assessment pilots in their public schools, with the goal of eventual statewide implementation. As of August 2020, the U.S. Department of Education had…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Pilot Projects, Educational Innovation, Public Schools
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Hartong, Sigrid – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This contribution takes a critical perspective on digital school performance platforms (SPP), which today play a key role in US state education monitoring and accountability. Using examples from two different US state education agencies, I provide an analytical disentanglement of some key dimensions of such platforms' enactment and materiality. I…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technology Uses in Education, Performance, Accountability
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Salas, Spencer; Lewis, Chance W.; Siefert, Bobbi – New Educator, 2021
An abundant and longstanding body of scholarship has underscored the White femininity of the U.S. K-12 teaching workforce and the need to diversify its ranks. Black males, in particular, potentially struggle with the notion of becoming teachers given their often highly negative lived experiences with schools and schooling including low…
Descriptors: African American Students, Graduate Students, Males, Preservice Teachers
Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform Center, 2020
In light of national challenges brought on by COVID-19, on April 6, 2020 Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) hosted a virtual meeting of State Education Agency and Educator Preparation Program leaders from across the country focused on the following: (1) strategies that preparation program faculty…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, COVID-19
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The "Forum Guide to Data Governance" highlights how data governance programs benefit education agencies and provide timely and useful best practices, examples, and resources for agencies implementing or updating their data governance programs. This resource is intended to address the needs of federal, state, and local agencies related…
Descriptors: Data, Governance, Information Security, Privacy
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Kaul, Corina R.; Davis, Brenda K. – Gifted Child Today, 2018
In 2015, the U.S. Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that included provisions to support gifted and talented learners. The U.S. Department of Education's Consolidated State Plan template only required states to directly address the inclusion of gifted education under Title II, Part A: Supporting Effective Instruction (Section…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2018
The Forum Guide to Reporting Civil Rights Data presents a variety of effective methods through which local education agencies (LEAs) report civil rights data to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. In addition, the guide provides examples of how state education agencies can voluntarily help their LEAs with Civil Rights Data…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Student Rights, Data, Information Utilization
Dunn, Lenay; Ambroso, Eric – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in 2015, signaled a major shift in the roles of states and districts in supporting school improvement. Under ESSA, state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) have more responsibility and flexibility in developing and implementing plans, informed by local context, to support the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education
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Jennifer S. Dail; Michelle Goodsite; Stephanie Sanders – English Journal, 2018
National Writing Project (NWP) sites work within an established framework of summer institutes, teacher-led professional development, and continuity to cultivate teacher leaders and empower them by applying these principles. Invitational Summer Institutes traditionally serve as the gateway by which teachers become involved with NWP sites and start…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Teacher Empowerment, Faculty Development, State Departments of Education
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