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Martel, Jason – New Educator, 2012
In the following self-study, I consider how my involvement in a teacher preparation program that features looking across multiple contexts of second language teaching influenced my supervisory practice with a particular student teacher during her secondary foreign language student teaching placement. I conduct this inquiry by identifying and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Supervision, Teacher Educators, Independent Study
Achieve, Inc., 2010
"Perspective" is a monthly e-newsletter presenting news and views from Achieve. This month's issue commences with a report stating how the number of states that ensure the college and career readiness of their students has increased since Achieve first started tracking progress on the college- and career-ready policy agenda five years…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), State Schools, Teaching (Occupation), International Education
Frank, Stephen – Education Resource Strategies, 2010
There is no disputing that for high school students to be college and career ready, they need adequate time to learn, and individualized attention to meet each student's academic goals, learning styles, and social needs. Over the past decade, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has partnered with urban schools and districts to improve their use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Graduation Requirements, School Schedules, General Education
Hawkins, Beth – Education Next, 2009
Twenty years ago, when the late Albert Shanker, then president of the American Federation of Teachers, endorsed the notion of innovative schools operating outside conventional district bureaucracies, his aim was to put teachers at the helm. Fast-forward two decades from Shanker's then-radical proposition and there are nearly 80 teacher-governed…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Cooperatives, Partnerships in Education, Administrators
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2017
In the United States, approximately 65 percent of all jobs in 2020 will require some level of postsecondary education, and the demand will reach 74 percent in Minnesota. This report seeks to inform public discourse on higher education by providing key performance indicators relevant to the goal of improving educational attainment in Minnesota.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Indicators
Diaz, Jose; Chase, Richard – Wilder Research, 2012
Numerous research studies have demonstrated the economic value of investing in effective early education and intervention programs that cognitively, socially, and emotionally prepare low-income children at risk of school failure for success in school. School readiness prevents or reduces needless public spending, starting with K-12 special…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Effect Size, High School Graduates
American Youth Policy Forum, 2009
This issue brief is focused on policies and practices that improve college and career readiness by strengthening the transition from high school to postsecondary education. The brief is largely based on a February, 2009 American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) field trip to Indiana, and details the cross-system efforts implemented to help more of the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Developmental Continuity, Secondary Education, Transitional Programs
Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. An executive summary of Latino College Completion in 50 states synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Benchmarking
Aslan, Sinem – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to improve existing design theories for characteristics of an information-age school and roles that educational technology should serve for key stakeholders in such schools. In addition to this primary purpose, this study explored how learner-centered instruction and assessment were implemented in an…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Learner Controlled Instruction, Access to Information, Information Technology
Broton, Katie; Mueller, Dan; Schultz, Jennifer Lee; Gaona, Maria – Wilder Research, 2009
The purpose of this literature review is to gain greater understanding of strategies that can be effectively applied in Minnesota's rural school districts to address their education challenges. In particular, the authors sought to identify strategies that could either: (1) maintain (or improve) students' academic achievement at less cost to the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Academic Achievement, School Districts
Williams, Julia M.; Nierengarten, Gerry – Rural Educator, 2011
Administrators in America's rural school districts are uniquely challenged to meet increased achievement expectations despite decreasing resources. Mandated reform initiatives, population decline, and the complex formulas used to distribute tax-based funding have disproportionately affected rural schools. In this mixed-methods study, researchers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
In today's economy, employers increasingly demand that workers have a high school diploma, yet America's graduation rates are unacceptably low, particularly among poor and minority students. Nationally, only about 70 percent of students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma; for African American and Hispanic students, this…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Secondary Education, High School Students, High Schools
von Frank, Valerie, Ed. – American Federation of Teachers (NJ), 2010
This publication is the result of an 18-month project that brought together teams from six states--Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas--along with their national organizations in a groundbreaking partnership to identify collective bargaining language and policies that support high-quality professional development.…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, National Organizations, Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership
Bhatt, Monica; Behrstock, Ellen; Cushing, Ellen; Wraight, Sara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2010
Training, recruiting, developing, and supporting talented and effective educators throughout their careers is known as human capital resource management (HCRM) in education. HCRM has been identified in recent literature as one of the ways in which districts and states may increase school effectiveness and improve student learning (Heneman &…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Policy, State Legislation, Teachers
Beem, Kate – School Administrator, 2008
A 2004 College Board survey revealed that school districts around America wanted to offer Chinese, but finding qualified teachers was a problem, says Selena Cantor, director of Chinese Language and Culture Initiatives for the College Board. So last year, a new College Board program brought guest teachers from China to school districts in 31…
Descriptors: Chinese, Teacher Exchange Programs, Second Language Programs, School Districts