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Frederick M. Hess, Editor; Michael B. Horn, Editor; Juliet Squire, Editor – Harvard Education Press, 2025
In "School Rethink 2.0," editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them. Contributors, including acclaimed education pioneers Sal Khan, Beth Rabbitt, and Larry Berger,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009
To succeed in college, career and life in the 21st century, students must be supported in mastering both content and skills. This Implementation Guide presents state leaders, policymakers and/or district and school leaders with assessment tactics and examples to assist in statewide 21st century skills initiatives. The Partnership for 21st Century…
Descriptors: Skill Development, State Standards, Guides, Academic Standards
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009
To succeed in college, career and life in the 21st century, students must be supported in mastering both content and skills. This Implementation Guide presents state leaders, policymakers and/or district and school leaders with assessment tactics and examples to assist in statewide 21st century skills initiatives. The Partnership for 21st Century…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Development, Mastery Learning, Academic Standards
Squires, David A. – 1984
The curriculum matrix is a tool to help curriculum coordinators, principals, and superintendents specify, justify, and align curriculum and instructional time to district specified standards. The problem the curriculum matrix solves is connecting the curriculum; that is, tracing an idea from initial justification to its placement in the curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Basile, Joseph C., II; Layman, Richard W. – 1984
This document consists of assorted supplementary materials for a conference session on the topic of "Improving Education in America through Staff Development and Learning Technology." It contains (1) a preface; (2) a list of assumptions central to West Virginia's educational reform model; (3) a statement of the session's basic purpose,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Glatthorn, Allan A. – 1987
This book is a manual for educators to use in curriculum planning and development. Chapter 1 examines the nature of curriculum and its relationship to instruction by (1) defining curriculum and the four main levels of curriculum work (curriculum policy, field of study, program of studies, and course) and (2) distinguishing between six types of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Hoyle, John R. – 1981
Most constructive critics of education agree that today's students are better than any in United States history. Yet problems like competency shortages and outmoded curricula remain. When schools were basically "socializers" (1885-1957), praise outstripped criticism--until 1957's Sputnik. In response, Congress initiated the National Aeronautics…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Resources
Miller, David P. – 1983
This paper reports on a study of the 1980 Maryland State Department of Education school improvement project utilizing Mastery Learning. It examines the instructional process implementation, the impact of one pilot school, and the statewide program through observation, surveys, interviews, document analysis, and participant self-reports. Data were…
Descriptors: Administrators, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education