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Download full textJerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
A 2003 survey of principals found that middle and high schools were more likely to increase social studies and science instruction than decrease it. This suggests that districts are not cutting social studies and sciences entirely but merely "deferring" those subjects until the secondary grades. This strategy provides more time for reading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedWixson, Karen K.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1987
Describes a collaboration among policy makers, test developers, curriculum specialists, researchers, and classroom teachers in Michigan that has produced a new interactive definition of reading, new statewide reading objectives, and efforts to develop statewide tests that are more consistent with current theory and research. (FL)
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Education
