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Direct linkStillman, Jamy – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: With the installation of No Child Left Behind, teachers, particularly those who serve marginalized students, have increasingly been told what and how to teach. Previous research demonstrates that teachers can act as mediators between policy and practice, even within coercive environments such as those generated by high-stakes…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Socialization, Federal Legislation, Language Arts
Parker, Christine Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current literature indicates a need for quality studies on how best to close the achievement gap between elementary English language learners (ELLs) and their English speaking peers. The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods research study was to determine the relationship between standards-based differentiated instructional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Methods Research, Group Discussion, Intervention
Porter, Holly Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Principals are anxious to determine which strategies, programs, and other factors contribute to increasing the achievement of English Language Learners (ELLs) so that all students in their schools can experience success. This study investigates the practices, strategies, knowledge, and expectations of an elementary principal that contribute to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Personnel Selection, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
Martinez, Gloria – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Public school educators in the United States are coping with the immigration of families from non-English speaking countries. Teachers are pressed by federal mandates to meet the challenges of increased cultural diversity and language deficiencies of students with new skills. This study explored the effectiveness of journaling between bilingual…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Focus Groups, Language of Instruction, Educational Improvement
Shaver, Annis; Cuevas, Peggy; Lee, Okhee; Avalos, Mary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study asked elementary school teachers how educational policies affected their science instruction with a majority of English language learners. The study employed a questionnaire followed by focus group interviews with 43 third and fourth grade teachers from six elementary schools in a large urban school district with high populations of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 4, Science Instruction, Opinions
Download full textThurlow, Martha; Shyyan, Vitaliy; Barrera, Manuel; Liu, Kristi – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2008
This study is part of national research over the past seven years at the National Center on Educational Outcomes focused on identifying and validating instructional strategies for ELLs with disabilities (Shyyan, Thurlow, & Liu, 2008; Thurlow, Albus, Shyyan, Liu, & Barrera, 2004). In recent work (Barrera, Shyyan, Liu, & Thurlow, 2008),…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Delphi Technique, Teaching Methods, Teacher Surveys
