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Dostal, Jay Roland – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study will evaluate alternative scheduling methods implemented in secondary level schools. Students were selected based on parent selection of programs. Traditional scheduling involves numerous academic subjects with small increments of time in each class and block scheduling focuses on fewer academic subjects and more instructional time.…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Scheduling, Science Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Locke, William; Bennion, Alice – Universities UK, 2010
This research report provides a summary of the UK part of the international study of the changing academic profession, which has been supported by Universities UK and other national higher education bodies. The international study aims to examine the nature and extent of the changes experienced by academics, the reasons for these changes and their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Evidence, Foreign Countries
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Ostergaard, Edvin; Lieblein, Geir; Breland, Tor Arvid; Francis, Charles – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
Preparing students for a complex and dynamic future is a challenge for educators. This article explores three crucial issues related to agroecological education and learning: (1) the phenomenological foundation for learning agroecology in higher education; (2) the process of students' interactions with a wide range of various learners within and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Learning Processes, Phenomenology, Experiential Learning
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McKenzie, Robert G. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
The highly qualified mandate of the No Child Left Behind Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has created unnecessary confusion, particularly among secondary-school special educators and administrators with respect to instruction in core academic subjects. The pursuit of compliance solutions to meet this requirement has generally…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Students
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Zipin, Lew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for "less advantaged" learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992), offers sound conception and a track-record. The Redesigning…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Influences
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Aron, Laudan; Loprest, Pamela – Future of Children, 2012
Education is important for all children, but even more so for children with disabilities, whose social and economic opportunities may be limited. In this article, Laudan Aron and Pamela Loprest assess how well the nation's education system is serving students with disabilities. Aron and Loprest trace the evolution of the special education system…
Descriptors: Evidence, Civil Rights, Eligibility, Federal Legislation
Marina, Brenda L. H. – Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2011
In the article "A Jobs Mismatch", Jaschik has compiled the findings of a new report that was released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The Georgetown University report claims that there is a severe shortage of college graduates in America, and that this shortage has the United States on a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Education Work Relationship, College Graduates, Educational Attainment
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Lundahl, Lisbeth; Arreman, Inger Erixon; Lundstrom, Ulf; Ronnberg, Linda – European Journal of Education, 2010
This article analyses reforms addressing and affecting the curriculum and organisation of Swedish upper secondary education over 40 years, up to an initiative by the present non-socialist government. The aim is to analyse the current reform of upper secondary education and relate it to previous reforms during a 40-year period in terms of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Change, Vocational Education, School Organization
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Toom, Auli; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Krokfors, Leena; Jyrhama, Riitta; Byman, Reijo; Stenberg, Katariina; Maaranen, Katriina; Kansanen, Pertti – European Journal of Education, 2010
There is an ongoing discussion about teacher education today: its organisation, its academic status and the competence that results from different programmes. There is no one best way to organise teacher education. Rather, the appropriateness of organisation is related to the desired aims. In this article, we discuss one way to organise and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Implementation
Meeder, Hans; Hebert-Giffen, Michelle – Association for Career and Technical Education, 2009
Throughout the United States, administrators and teachers in American high schools face mounting pressure to increase the academic rigor of their curriculum in an effort to prepare students for postsecondary education and workforce success. Career and technical education (CTE) courses have often been overlooked in the public debate about making…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Recognition (Achievement), Credits, High Schools
Cowin, Bob – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2009
When British Columbia began establishing community colleges in the mid 1960s, the explicit decision to provide extensive university transfer opportunities for college students had the added benefit of making a wide array of academic courses available to students who were not university-bound. Some of these students had been in applied programs in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges, Community Colleges
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2011
Summer vacation is one of the predominant causes of the achievement gap in America's schools. While middle- and higher-income children spend their summers engaged in activities and enrolled in programs that strengthen and reinforce learning, the vast majority of children in low-income communities have little or no access to such opportunities. By…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Skills, Reading Programs, Enrichment Activities
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Murphy, John W.; Rasch, Dana – Negro Educational Review, 2008
Modern society appears to reflect a diminishing degree of social cohesion. That segment of society in the United States described as the Black Community mirrors this pattern. The lack of cohesion has been attributed to the emphasis placed on the encouragement to embrace individualism as a way of life. The focus on individualism de-emphasizes forms…
Descriptors: Individualism, African American Community, Black Colleges, Social Responsibility
Senechal, Diana – American Educator, 2010
As long as there have been public schools, there have been reformers of public schools. All too often, they have insisted on sweeping changes; enamored of their bold, new idea, they haven't considered whether anything established ought to endure. The result? A century of faddish ideas, but little real progress. Among today's most vocal reformers…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Objectives
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Polesel, John; Clarke, Kira – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
It has been argued that the culture and traditions of secondary schooling explicitly exclude vocational learning from the mission of secondary schools. Analyses have further highlighted the role played by vocational learning in sifting and sorting students by social background. In many continental systems, Germany, France or Italy for example, the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary School Curriculum
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