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Brand, Brenda; Collver, Michael; Kasarda, Mary – Science Teacher, 2008
In recent years, the need to advance the number of individuals pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields has gained much attention. The Montgomery County/Virginia Tech Robotics Collaborative (MCVTRC), a yearlong high school robotics program housed in an educational shop facility in Montgomery County, Virginia, seeks to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, High Schools, Engineering, Counties
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Kelly, Timothy; Meuwissen, Kevin; Vansledright, Bruce – International Journal of Social Education, 2007
In this essay, the authors explore the structures, processes, and messages that accountability reforms communicate about the goals and means of coming to know history. In other words, how do existing history standards and formal curricula officialize certain orientations toward historical knowledge and traditions through which that knowledge is…
Descriptors: National Standards, Social Sciences, Academic Standards, Instructional Materials
Kim, Jimmy; Sunderman, Gail L. – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
This report examines how state policymakers designed their accountability systems to meet the NCLB Title I requirements and the implications of its provisions for schools with large numbers of low-income and minority students. The authors conducted their study in six states--Arizona, California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, and Georgia--which are…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Government, State Programs, Public Schools