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Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools
Steen, Lynn Arthur, Ed. – Mathematical Association of America, 2006
This publication contains 29 case studies offering lessons learned during a four year NSF-supported MAA project designed to support mathematicians and mathematics departments in the increasingly important challenge of assessing student learning. Three introductory essays set assessment in broader academic and national contexts; an appendix…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Evaluation Methods, Course Evaluation, Student Evaluation
Henry, Eric; And Others – 1995
This volume contains personal reflections by four teachers in Texas on their year-long Trinity University intern teaching experience at Mark Twain Middle School, an urban professional development school in San Antonio. Part 1 by Corinne McKamey, "To understand teaching you have to be there, engrossed in the human interactions," is a…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Environment, College School Cooperation
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1987
This volume consists of reports on the status and function of lower secondary comprehensive school systems in four countries with contrasting cultures and educational traditions: Denmark, France, the United Kingdom as represented by Scotland, and the United States as represented by Maryland and Minnesota. The volume begins with an analysis by…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adolescents, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
Malinka, Robert M., Ed. – 1981
The eight studies contained in this volume complete the effort pursued by the National Middle School Association to provide practitioners with some of the research available from the recent past. Research briefs deal with such topics as teacher attitudes; the degree of middle school program implementation; gifted students' and educable mentally…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role
Zionts, Paul, Ed. – 1997
This book presents discussions of the practical implementation of inclusion principles with students having learning and/or behavioral problems and disorders. The chapters, arranged under two topical units, "Perspectives and Experiences" and "Best Practices" are: (1) "Inclusion: Chasing the Impossible Dream? Maybe"…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences
Erb, Thomas Owen, Ed. – 1981
The ten studies contained in this volume mark the third publication by the National Middle School Association of research on early adolescent education. The previous issues are ED 214 273 and ED 214 283. The papers in the 1981 edition represent a broad range of middle school research topics and methodologies. A number of studies in this volume…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Death, Decision Making, Educational Environment
Pace, Glennellen, Ed. – 1995
This book brings together, under the term "whole learning," ideas from the language-arts-based whole language movement and work in middle schools with multidisciplinary, problem-centered, integrative approaches. The book contains 15 chapters, most written by teachers about their experiences with implementing whole learning curricula. The…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, History Instruction
Pool, Harbison, Ed.; Page, Jane A., Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers addresses tracking, whether it should be abolished, the movement toward inclusiveness in schools, strategies to meet all students' needs, and the process of untracking. Contents are as follows: "Why Ability Grouping Must End: Achieving Excellence and Equity in American Education" (Jomills Henry Braddock II and Robert E.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Change Strategies
Ponder, Gerald, Ed.; Strahan, David, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2005
This book presents cases of schools (Part One) and programs at the district level and beyond (Part Two) in which reform, while driven by high-stakes accountability, became larger and deeper through data-driven dialogue, culture change, organizational learning, and other elements of high performing cultures. Commentaries on cross-case patterns by…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Migrant Education, Educational Change
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Deaver, Sharon R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Graduate Study, Teacher Education, Masters Degrees
Masalski, William J., Ed. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2005
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels. This publication reports on overviews of research and findings on the impact of technology. It furnishes a context in which to observe teachers in prekindergarten through grade 12 and teacher educators using technology to help their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities, Young Children, Computer Software
Brown, Betty J., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 15 papers devoted to the theme of management of business education. "Management of Business Education: A Perspective" (Betty J. Brown) discusses business education as education about business and education for business. The following papers explore the theme of managing the curriculum: "The Basic Business and Economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Business Education, Business Administration Education, Business Education
Anderson, Jeffrey B., Ed.; Swick, Kevin J., Ed.; Yff, Joost, Ed. – 2001
This book provides teacher educators, administrators, practicing teachers who work with preservice teachers, policymakers, and researchers with information on the conceptual, research, and application areas of service-learning in preservice teacher education. The collection of papers offers teacher educators' thoughts about ways to enhance the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Citizenship Education, College Faculty
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Deaver, Sharon R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2008
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Student Projects, Student Teaching
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