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Council of the Great City Schools, 2017
In the ongoing effort to improve instructional standards in our nation's urban public schools, the Council of the Great City Schools has released resources to help districts determine the quality and alignment of instructional materials at each grade level; to ensure that materials for English language learners are rigorous and aligned to district…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Goodwin, Bryan; McIver, Monette; Snyder, Chris; Ryan, Susan – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2009
This document is one of eight reports prepared to support the development of a new learning system, a development effort that is the first step in a major initiative undertaken by the Stupski Foundation. The Foundation endeavors to improve the life options of all students, especially underserved urban youth of color by fundamentally redesigning…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Minority Group Students, At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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Hodgkin, Marian – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2007
This paper examines an important component of the developing field of education in emergencies: curriculum decision-making processes. The paper argues that in order to fully meet the commitment articulated by the INEE Minimum Standards to provide quality education for all, curricula decisions cannot be ignored or postponed until after a crisis has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Quality, Participative Decision Making, Alignment (Education)
Jordan, Catherine, Ed.; Parker, Joe, Ed.; Donnelly, Deborah, Ed.; Rudo, Zena, Ed. – SEDL, 2009
This Guide is intended to share the insights of SEDL's National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning (the National Partnership) as well as information about both the academic and the organizational and management practices that successful afterschool programs use. The authors have organized these practices into the following four focus…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, After School Programs, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives