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Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text: A Randomized Control Trial of Its Effectiveness
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Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne; Furman, Gleb; Martinez, Leticia; Sargent, Katherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text (PACT) is a text- and discourse-based set of instructional practices that engage students with disciplinary texts as a means of building content knowledge and improving reading comprehension. PACT)s "efficacy" has been the subject of extensive previous trials. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, United States History, Reading Comprehension
A Content Analysis of Immigration in Traditional, New, and Non-Gateway State Standards for U.S. History and Civics
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Hilburn, Jeremy; Journell, Wayne; Buchanan, Lisa Brown – High School Journal, 2016
In this content analysis of state U.S. History and Civics standards, we compared the treatment of immigration across three types of states with differing immigration demographics. Analyzing standards from 18 states from a critical race methodology perspective, our findings indicated three sets of tensions: a unified American story versus local…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Immigration, Immigrants, United States History
50(0) Years out and Counting: Native American Language Education and the Four Rs
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McCarty, Teresa L.; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Wyman, Leisy T. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2015
Fifty years after the U.S. Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA), Native Americans continue to fight for the right "to remain an Indian" (Lomawaima & McCarty, 2006) against a backdrop of test-driven language policies that threaten to destabilize proven bilingual programs and violate hard-fought language rights protections…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Civil Rights Legislation
Pluralism, Place, and Gertrude Bonnin's Counternativism from Utah to Washington, DC
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Newmark, Julianne – American Indian Quarterly, 2012
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, racial nativism wielded considerable direct and indirect influence on policies that affected broader American attitudes concerning Native American people. In this three-decade period, many factors caused the kinds of national insecurity and instability that make a cultural climate ripe for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Pluralism, Activism, Race
RAISE Scale-Up: Implementation and Sustainability in Year 3
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Zacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis; Lin, Li; Jaciw, Andrew P. – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Sustainability, Literacy
Year 1 Interim Report of Reading Apprenticeship/RAISE Scale-Up
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Zacamy, Jenna; Gray, Sophia; Jaciw, Andrew; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2013
In October 2010, WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) won an i3 "Validation" grant to scale up and validate the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) model in three core secondary content area classes: U.S. history, biology, and English language arts. SLI's proposal stated two goals. Goal 1: To transform academic literacy teaching and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Content Area Reading