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Jenna Howard Terrell; Robin Ahigian; Morgan Garvey; Sarah Barzee – WestEd, 2025
With constantly changing needs in a global economy, more flexibility in educational accountability for states and districts, and a focus on high standards for all students, state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) are increasingly defining what skills, competencies, and knowledge graduates should have by developing a…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Profiles, Graduation Requirements, Student Development
Emily Morton; Paul Thompson; Megan Kuhfeld – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Four-day school weeks are becoming increasingly common in the U.S., but their effect on achievement is not well-understood. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we conduct the most representative student-level analysis to date of the effects of four-day weeks on student achievement and within-year growth using NWEA MAP Growth data. We…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Students, School Schedules, Educational Change
Truong, Natalie – iNACOL, 2019
This report analyzes recent learning sciences research and provides nine recommendations to address a critical need: how can education policy support and align with the science of learning and development? Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Policy, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship
Bae, Soung – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2017
Part of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) research series titled "Teachers' Time: Collaborating for Learning, Teaching, and Leading," this case study looks at Hillsdale High School, a large, comprehensive high school located in San Mateo, California, a high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley nestled 23 miles…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Time Management, Cooperative Learning, Time Factors (Learning)
Arum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa; Cho, Esther – Social Science Research Council, 2011
The authors have systematically investigated the state of undergraduate learning in contemporary colleges and universities. Following several thousand traditional-age students as they enrolled in coursework from Fall 2005 to Spring 2009, across a wide range of four-year colleges and universities, the authors found a set of conditions suggesting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Study, Educational Indicators, College Outcomes Assessment
American School and University, 1984
A new computer program designed to reach out into the community as well as train students, faculty, and staff includes a built-in evaluation program. (MD)
Descriptors: Computers, Courseware, School Community Relationship, Secondary Education
Passow, A. Harry; And Others – Gifted Education International, 1989
The paper discusses the importance of developing gifted students' leadership potential to bring about world peace. Gifted children's sensitivity in social, moral, and ethical awareness should be nurtured through appropriate curricula, understanding of real-life problems, awareness of worldwide news, and direct communication with other gifted…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Humanistic Education, International Studies
Partee, Glenda; Brand, Betsy; Pearson, Sarah; Hare, Rachel – American Youth Policy Forum Inc., 2006
This report reviews the current research and literature on Out of School Time (OST) programs especially with regard to their effectiveness. It also explores the range of OST programs and activities as employed by the various youth-serving sectors; considers the untapped possibilities of OST programs to meet the needs of young people, including…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Student Development, College Preparation, Youth Programs
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Begisheva, E. – Russian Education and Society, 1992
Presents a Russian mother's thoughts on her child's entry into school. Argues that education must promote the development of a free person. Discusses the institutional barriers to freedom and individuality for student and teacher alike. Recommends a radical restructuring of adults' relations with children. Expresses the belief that perestroika…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Dignity, Marxism, Parent Child Relationship
Kauffmann, Norman L.; And Others – 1992
Colleges and universities face the major problem of how to make a university education meaningful in a global society. It is the thesis of this book that study abroad is one of the most powerful tools available for internationalizing the U.S. higher education curriculum. After an Introduction giving a general overview of the book, the study begins…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Interrelationships, Global Approach, Higher Education
Dreher, Mariam Jean; Singer, Harry – Principal, 1984
Describes a method for making standardized test results more useful for teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents by providing information on the test content actually mastered by the student and on the student's individual development over time, as well as providing traditional numerical and norm-referenced scores. (PGD)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Norm Referenced Tests
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European Education, 1991
Describes the European Community's efforts to unify Europe and enhance competitiveness in world markets by improving use of available intellectual potential. Discusses ERASMUS, the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. Explains the role of Inter-University Cooperation Programs (ICPs), a course credit transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Mobility
Costa, Arthur L. – 1990
For years many educators have advocated school conditions that maximize human intellectual and creative potential, yet today's schools can be intellectually depressing. After identifying and describing factors that influence teachers' attitudes and experiences in education, this document explores three school climate conditions that facilitate the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum
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Boland, Theo – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1993
Reports on an eight-year longitudinal study of Dutch children on the relationship of the development of reading ability in primary schools with general academic success. Finds that young children with reading problems in primary school keep them throughout their educational career. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Murphy-Graham, Erin – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
This article is not about local governance of education "per se," but rather whether education can be used as a tool to foster citizen participation, particularly that of women. It examines how education might empower women, who are often excluded from local, regional and national governance, to participate in public life. It draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Females, Secondary Education
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