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Kathryn Accurso; Meg Gebhard; Grace Harris; Jennie Schuetz – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores how systemic functional linguistics (SFL) can contribute to secondary teachers' effectiveness for teaching disciplinary literacies to refugee youth in the United States. The chapter describes the Milltown Multimodal/Multiliteracies (MMM) Collaborative, an SFL-based professional development partnership between a large public…
Descriptors: Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Boeskens, Luka; Liebowitz, David; Lima, Gonçalo; Radinger, Thomas – OECD Publishing, 2018
This report on "Responsive School Systems" constitutes the second of three thematic comparative reports bringing together findings from the OECD's School Resources Review. Evolving educational objectives, changing student needs and demographic developments require school systems to be highly responsive to new patterns of demand and adapt…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Governance, Networks, Rural Schools
Johnson, Linda K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The overarching goal for American education under President Barack Obama has been to increase college enrollment and completion rates. The pressure to achieve this goal has been keenly felt in the postsecondary community, especially as federal and state funding have become increasingly tied to achieving higher college completion rates. Yet the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Public Schools, High School Students