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Download full textHitt, Dallas Hambrick; Robinson, William; Player, Daniel – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2018
This document provides state education agencies (SEAs) and districts with guidance about how to assess a district's readiness to support school turnaround initiatives. First published in 2013, the guide has been updated in this edition to highlight how its approach to assessing district readiness embeds and reflects key components of "Four…
Descriptors: Readiness, School Districts, School Turnaround, State Departments of Education
Trivelpiece, Alvin W. – 1988
The keynote address from the proceedings of the 1988 Conference on Academic Talent is presented here. The address criticizes the current educational system for its concentration on college preparatory courses that have little or no hands-on experience. It argues that the existing system does not encourage curiosity, a problem seen as so pervasive…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Preparation, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform. Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
Quint, Janet – MDRC, 2006
High school reform has moved to the top of the education policy agenda, commanding the attention of the federal government, governors, urban school superintendents, philanthropists, and the general public. All are alarmed by stubbornly high dropout rates, by the low academic achievement of many high school students, and by the large numbers of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Talent Development, School Restructuring, Low Achievement
Demmon-Berger, Debbie – Updating School Board Policies, 1985
Although 70 percent of the 1,600 schools responding to a survey by the Sid Richardson Foundation in Forth Worth, Texas provides some sort of program for the gifted, this was often found to be only "enrichment." An example of a school system that has gone beyond enrichment is that of Frederick County, Maryland. The system provides an…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Placement Programs, Community Attitudes
PDF pending restorationMeils, Elaine A. – 1988
A class was developed for 10 musically talented students in an elementary school, to enable the students to increase their musical interest and knowledge and to improve their music performance skills. Strategies for providing a more challenging musical environment for these students included: a pull-out class, teaching of music theory and…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Advanced Students, Attitude Change, Elementary Education
Assiter, Alison, Ed. – 1995
The 16 essays in this book discuss transferable skills in higher education drawing on the experience and information gained from two projects based in England, the Enterprise in Higher Education (EHE), initiated in 1989; and the Royal Society of Arts Education for Capability Initiative, instituted in 1991. Section 1 contains essays on transferable…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Business Administration Education, Chemistry, Cognitive Development
