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Stevens, Robert L. – 2001
In U.S. history classrooms, teachers have discovered that local history offers students richer content, more enjoyable learning experiences, and unique insight into the national character. Using several social studies and geography standards as a framework for planning, this book offers teachers instructional activities for learning more about the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Built Environment, Heritage Education, History Instruction
Nolet, Victor; McLaughlin, Margaret J. – 2000
This text presents a framework and strategies for ensuring that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum. Chapter 1 discusses standards-based reform and the links between standards and curriculum. The three domains of knowledge for ensuring access are also introduced: content knowledge, learning processes, and…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Access to Education, Curriculum
El-Khawas, Elaine – 2001
This study analyzes the accreditation experience in the United States with special emphasis on the issues and decisions that surrounded the development of evaluation procedures and standards. Attention is given to the relationship between accrediting agencies and governmental agencies, the effect of accrediting requirements on the way that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Agency Role
Project WET Foundation, 2002
This guide contains 19 science-based, multidisciplinary activities that teach what a watershed is, how it works and why we must all consider ourselves watershed managers. An extensive background section introduces readers to fundamental watershed concepts. Each activity adapts to local watersheds, contains e-links for further Internet research and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Resources, Web Sites, Guides
Ronis, Diane L. – Corwin Press, 2006
Students' brains are wired to make them natural, curious learners. The mathematical world around them offers a vast classroom, filled with shapes, spaces, quantities, and experiences to discover and explore, all leading to the construction of understanding. Teachers can use this natural curiosity to tap the inborn neural mechanisms that motivate…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Lesson Plans, Academic Standards, Technology Integration
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Nashville. – 1995
This 1995 report presents information on the progress that Tennessee has made toward its 26 educational objectives for preschool through graduate education. It examines the following four areas: (1) the extent of duplication in elementary-secondary and postsecondary education; (2) the extent to which high-school graduation requirements are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Udall, Denis, Ed.; Mednick, Amy, Ed. – 1996
The founders of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound drew on the metaphor of a wilderness expedition to develop a framework for curriculum design. During "learning expeditions," teachers and students pursue long-term intellectual investigations build around significant projects and performances. The investigations take students out into…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Deupree, John, Ed.; Lenn, Marjorie Peace, Ed. – 1997
This collection of essays presents a set of standards to be considered for use in the delivery of U.S. credit-abroad programs and is designed to serve as a primer for institutions considering the development of such standards. The essays include: (1) "Introduction: A Growing Trend in Educational Delivery" (John Deupree), which discusses…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Case Studies, Colleges
Intercollegiate Studies Inst., Inc., Wilmington, DE. – 1998
This guide, intended to help students and their parents select a college, offers analyses of the quality of instruction, the level of academic standards, the campus political atmosphere, and the college's liberal arts tradition. The book, with an introduction by William J. Bennett, describes 100 schools, which were selected on the basis of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, College Bound Students, College Choice
Lukenbill, Jeffrey D.; McCabe, Robert H. – 1978
This document presents the results of Miami-Dade Community College's three-year effort to design a general education program for the community college. A rationale, definition, and 26 goals for general education introduce the revised programs and requirements in three areas: (1) basic skills requirements, (2) the general education program, and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Academic Standards, Ancillary Services, Associate Degrees
Kirk, Russell – 1978
Based on the theory that higher education in America has been on the decline since 1953, the decadence and hopes for renewal in higher learning are examined. The following afflictions are cited as cause for the decline: (1) a purposelessness or loss of the objects of wisdom and virtue; (2) intellectual disorder: all integration and order of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Accountability
Handleman, Chester – 1977
Schools and educators are being called to task so that students will be able to achieve academically and gain basic skills. While few people argue with the need for gradual, reasonable, and proven changes in curricula, the massive infusion of innovative curricula and teaching methods often intended to maximize affective learning may have had a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development
Kochhar-Bryant, Carol, Ed.; Bassett, Diane S., Ed. – 2002
Eleven papers address issues in the alignment of standards-based education and individualized transition planning and service development for students with disabilities including differences in assumptions and principles, the transition planning model as a framework for achieving this alignment, and educational practices resulting from this…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Johnson, Elaine B. – 2002
This book for teachers and administrators demonstrates how implementing contextual teaching and learning (CTL) at all levels can change students' lives and help them realize their full potential and achieve academic excellence. CTL is based on the philosophy that students learn when they see meaning in academic material, and they see meaning in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cooperative Learning, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Buddin, Richard; Gill, Brian P.; Zimmer, Ron W. – 2001
This report focuses on the workings of the Impact Aid program with a special emphasis on the implications of the statute for military children. The main purpose of the statute is to defray the local share of expenses for educating federally connected students. The assertion is that military and other federal activities bring additional students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Armed Forces, Educational Change