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Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2012
High academic standards are an important first step in ensuring that all Alaska's students have the tools they need for success. These standards reflect the collaborative work of Alaskan educators and national experts from the nonprofit National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. Further, they are informed by public comments.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Literacy, English
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2012
High academic standards are an important first step in ensuring that all Alaska's students have the tools they need for success. These standards reflect the collaborative work of Alaskan educators and national experts from the nonprofit National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. Further, they are informed by public comments.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Literacy, English
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Van Wyhe, Tamara L. C. – English Journal, 2006
In this article, the author relates her experience in teaching poetry and how it shapes everything she and her students do in the classroom. As a language arts teacher for students in grades 7 to 12, she discovered poetry to be magical in many ways, for it offers such advantages as, brevity, which allows a quick reading and discussion of a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Arts, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Johnson, Mike – 1979
The manual provides information to assist administrators in deciding whether to adopt and implement the STARS program, a grade 9 and 10 science, math, and language arts curriculum designed to provide Kodiak Island, Alaska, students with academic skills, vocational training, and village skills to be successful whether they choose to go to college,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Alaska Natives, Curriculum Development