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Maxim, Jeffrey G.; Maxim, George W. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
There have been many significant changes in education over the last fifty years, but few have been as swift and all-encompassing as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Discussed and debated everywhere, and now implemented in many states, the CCSS initiative set out to transform our nation's K-12 educational system by providing clear…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Literacy, Teaching Methods
Franklin, Catherine – Bank Street College of Education, 2003
This essay provides a window into an eighth-grade class engaged in a legislative curriculum drama. The author, an eighth-grade social studies and literature teacher at a private New York City elementary school, describes her use of a legislative curriculum drama to make an eight-week study of the legislative branch of government a more dynamic and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Imagination, Inquiry
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Gore-Felton, Cheryl; Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane; Weinhardt, Lance S.; Kelly, Jeffrey A.; Lightfoot, Marguerita; Kirshenbaum, Sheri B.; Johnson, Mallory O.; Chesney, Margaret A.; Catz, Sheryl L.; Ehrhardt, Anke A.; Remien, Robert H.; Morin, Stephen F. – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The NIMH Healthy Living Project (HLP), a randomized behavioral intervention trial for people living with HIV, enrolled 943 individuals, including women, heterosexual men, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. The intervention, which is based on qualitative formative research…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Individualized Programs, Anxiety
Coplin, William, Comp.; Cohen, Larry, Comp. – 1972
Techniques employed in a "Joint University-Community Urban Problem-Solving Course" in promoting discussion among two diverse sets of population are described in this handbook. The course, offered during the Fall 1971 and Spring 1972 semesters at Syracuse University, comprised approximately 30 undergraduates from the university and 30…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Curriculum, College Students, Community Programs