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Telfer-Radzat, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite a 100-year-old history and the existence of schools in nearly every country in the world, Waldorf education is a little known and poorly understood educational model that was developed in Europe by Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner. For many years it existed in the United States in the form of private schools. Few of their teachers or…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Philosophy
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Buttimer, Christopher John – Berkeley Review of Education, 2018
This study explores the challenges and successes that two public school teachers experienced while implementing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with their students in core academic classrooms. Most academic studies of YPAR have focused on university-based researchers implementing YPAR with youth outside school settings or in special…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Public School Teachers, Ethnography
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Ellison, Tisha Lewis; Evans, Jessica N. – School Community Journal, 2016
This article explores six effective principles for teachers to use to understand and apply "Minecraft" in today's classrooms. Video games have become one of the fastest growing forms of media for youth and adult consumers. "Minecraft," a multiplayer online game (MOG), is one of the most popular video games to date. By allowing…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Research, Educational Benefits
Texas Education Agency, 2021
This report presents Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance results in Texas public schools for the 2019-20 school year. Data are provided by student characteristics, including race/ethnicity; gender; and economic, at-risk, dyslexia, English learner, foster care, homeless, immigrant,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Test Results, Public Schools, Race
Texas Education Agency, 2020
This report presents Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance results in Texas public schools for the 2018-19 school year. Data are provided by student characteristics, including race/ethnicity; gender; and economic, at-risk, dyslexia, English learner, foster care, homeless, immigrant,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Test Results, Public Schools, Race
Vieyra, Rebecca E.; Springer, Tony – National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2015
The invention of aviation has made it possible for people to travel faster and farther than ever before, and has led to a global increase in connection of commerce, people, and ideas. However, economic growth and social changes have also led to challenges for the aviation industry. NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) works…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Aviation Education
Jones, Jonathan P. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This research study documents and analyzes the experience of teachers who participated in a professional development program to integrate process drama into the teaching of English language arts, social studies, and world languages and cultures. The study addresses and builds upon extant literature in process drama, arts integration, drama…
Descriptors: Drama, Language Arts, Faculty Development, English
Texas Education Agency, 2019
This report presents Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance results in Texas public schools for the 2017-18 school year. Data are provided by student characteristics, including race/ethnicity; gender; and economic, at-risk, dyslexia, English learner, foster care, homeless, immigrant,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Test Results, Public Schools, Race
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2016
As states examine efforts to ensure college and career readiness for all students, review and possible revision of their content standards may be part of these efforts. Based on questions CSAI has received regarding how states undergo the process of revising content standards, a report was created to compile information for stakeholders interested…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Gallagher, Faustina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study assessed the relationship of an Arts Summer Learning Program (Arts Program) to student academic performance and college readiness. A North Texas school district collaborated with a research-based Arts Program in 2010, and a new approach was implemented in the summer school program for low-performing students who had failed courses in…
Descriptors: Art Education, Summer Programs, Academic Achievement, College Readiness
Starr, Joshua P. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The federal "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) legislation required school districts to ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects met the requirements to be designated highly qualified by July 1, 2006. However, because no Maryland counties were able to comply with the 100 percent highly qualified designation by July 1,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Counties
Griffin, Noelle; Kim, Jinok; So, Youngsoon; Hsu, Vivian – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2009
This report presents results from the second year of CRESST's three-year evaluation of the WebPlay program. WebPlay is an online-enhanced arts education program for K-12 students. The evaluation occurred during the three-year implementation of the program in Grades 3 and 5 in California schools; this report focused on results from the second year…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Art Education
Baker, Richard Allen, Jr. – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the policy implications allowing administrators to exempt a student from required arts instruction if the student obtained unsatisfactory scores on the high-stake state mandated tests in English and mathematics. This study examined English language arts and math test scores for 37,222 eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Music Education, Poverty, Educational Assessment
Richard Allen Baker Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the policy implications allowing administrators to exempt a student from required arts instruction if the student obtained unsatisfactory scores on the high-stake state mandated tests in English and mathematics. This study examined English language arts and math test scores for 37,222 eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Music Education, Poverty, Educational Assessment
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
North Carolina first established a Standard Course of Study in 1898. The "North Carolina Standard Course of Study" provides every content area a set of competencies for each grade and high school course. Its intent is to ensure rigorous student academic performance standards that are uniform across the state. It includes the subject or…
Descriptors: State Standards, High Schools, Academic Standards, Educational Philosophy