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Feride Oktay; Ümmü Bayraktar – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
Today's world is equipped with media and media messages. It has become impossible to prevent all kinds of information in social life from reaching audiences of all ages. Media content attracts children and adults, especially children, who are the most open to interaction and sensitive group under the information bombardment they are exposed to,…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Robins, Jennifer H.; Sanguras, Laila Y.; Carpenter, Ashley Y. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
In this article, we focus on two components of the Online Curriculum Consortium for Accelerating Middle School (OCCAMS) project: the curriculum frameworks and the curriculum development process. The frameworks include the Integrated Curriculum Model (advanced content, unit themes, and process/product), culturally responsive curriculum, and talent…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Language Arts, Culturally Relevant Education, Acceleration (Education)
Paulina Haduong; Julia Jeffries; Allison Pao; Willie Webb; Danielle Allen; David Kidd – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
There is increasing urgency to broaden access to inclusive and culturally sustaining K-12 civic education. Civic education can foster young people's development of their civic identity, which can support a functioning American democracy. Civic education often includes opportunities for learners to develop civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Inclusion, Cultural Maintenance
Eronen, Lasse; Kokko, Sirpa; Sormunen, Kari – Curriculum Journal, 2019
In 2014, the Finnish National Board of Education launched a new core curriculum with the aim of meeting the skills and competence requirements of the 21st century. The purpose of this case study was to find out what transversal competencies Finnish eighth graders developed and how they experienced studying in a problem-based transdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, 21st Century Skills, Core Curriculum
Casey Elizabeth Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study explored the implementation of critical citizenship education in an eighth grade social studies classroom. This research was guided by Johnson and Morris' (2010) framework for studying critical citizenship education and took place in a public charter school located in a capital city in the southeastern United States.…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education
Ditchburn, Geraldine – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
The "Australian Curriculum: History" has emerged out of a neoliberal federal education policy landscape. This is a policy landscape where pragmatic and performative, rather than pedagogic concerns are clearly foregrounded, and this has implications for curriculum development and implementation. A useful way to conceptualise the features,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Curriculum, Educational Policy
Penner, Andrew M.; Domina, Thurston; Penner, Emily K.; Conley, AnneMarie – Grantee Submission, 2014
Current educational policies in the United States attempt to boost student achievement and promote equality by intensifying the curriculum and exposing students to more advanced coursework. This paper investigates the relationship between one such effort -- California's push to enroll all 8th grade students in Algebra -- and the distribution of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement
Domina, Thurston; Penner, Andrew M.; Penner, Emily K.; Conley, AnneMarie – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Across the United States, secondary school curricula are intensifying as a growing proportion of students enroll in high-level academic math courses. In many districts, this intensification process occurs as early as eighth grade, where schools are effectively constraining their mathematics curricula by restricting course…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, School Districts
Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; Koppal, Mary; Roseman, Jo Ellen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Modern biology has become increasingly molecular in nature, requiring students to understand basic chemical concepts. Studies show, however, that many students fail to grasp ideas about atom rearrangement and conservation during chemical reactions or the application of these ideas to biological systems. To help provide students with a better…
Descriptors: Biology, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, High Schools
Edmunds, Julie A.; Grebing, Eric M.; Coyle, Victoria C.; Rosof, Laura; Henson, Bob A.; Cardwell, Ramsey – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2021
The College and Career Readiness Expansion project was a five-year, federally funded effort to implement early college strategies in comprehensive high schools. This report presents the results from a quasi-experimental impact study of the project and a mixed methods examination of its implementation. Results showed that the program increased the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Sanderson, Elfi; Greenberger, Roxanne – Gifted Child Today, 2011
Online learning programs have exploded on the educational scene, growing at a rate of approximately 30% annually. Online programming is here to stay and is changing the face of education. Moreover, this new venue holds great promise for gifted students, with its ability to provide greater access to academically rigorous curriculum, highly…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academically Gifted, Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes
Kurz, Alexander; Elliott, Stephen N.; Wehby, Joseph H.; Smithson, John L. – Journal of Special Education, 2010
In this initial study, the authors examined the content of the planned and enacted eighth-grade mathematics curriculum for 18 general and special education teachers and the curricula's alignment to state standards via the Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum. The relation between alignment and student achievement was analyzed for three formative…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, State Standards, Mathematics Achievement
Shkedi, Asher – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
The paper examines the implementation of an external written curriculum in the classroom. The study is based on observation of and interviews with 26 Israeli Bible teachers who followed a formal curriculum and used a teachers' guide. The study identified three types of curriculum narrative: the frame narrative, the task narrative, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biblical Literature, Grade 8, Public Schools
Sutherland, LeeAnn M. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Middle Schools, Science Course Improvement Projects, Material Development
Carley, Glenn – Children & Schools, 2007
A school social work intervention called the "Getting Better Phenomenon" is redesigned as a curriculum resource for eighth- and ninth-grade teachers. The activities in the curriculum represent a synergy of provincial learning expectations; academic assessment and evaluation structures; teacher-guided delivery of student-generated "course" content;…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Educational Resources, Social Work
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