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Cifuentes, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study synthesizes research linking Long-Term English Learners (LTELs) and strategies necessary for teachers to implement in order to address their learning needs. The purpose of this study was to provide targeted professional development (PD) training in English learner (EL) strategies and best practices based on the California English…
Descriptors: High School Students, Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners, High School Teachers
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their college and career goals. Career-connected learning can be delivered in a variety of ways, including in core content…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Quality, Career Readiness, Student Centered Learning
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George C. Bunch – Intercultural Education, 2025
Access to core subject-area curriculum for students from immigrant backgrounds who are learning the dominant language of instruction has long been a barrier to equitable education around the world, especially in secondary schools. This article explores the promise of Complex Instruction (CI) to address barriers to access for such multilingual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Difficulty Level, Multilingualism, Core Curriculum
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O'Brien, Christine Neylon; Powers, Richard E.; Wesner, Thomas L. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2018
This article provides information about the value of a core course in business law and why it remains essential to business education. It goes on to identify highly ranked undergraduate business programs that require one or more business law courses. Using "Business Week" and "US News and World Report" to identify top…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Business Administration Education, Law Related Education, Benchmarking
Bauguil, Marie-Helene – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study investigated three arts education partnerships in California elementary schools. The research questions that guided the inquiry were exploratory in nature and intended to reveal the day-to-day functioning of these partnerships, the challenges they faced, and the factors that contributed to their success, through the recounted…
Descriptors: Art Education, Partnerships in Education, Qualitative Research, Principals
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Maniates, Helen – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
This article examines how three urban elementary school teachers adapted pedagogical strategies from a school district--adopted core reading program to increase their students' access to the curriculum. Using teacher interviews and classroom observations to construct a descriptive case study of teacher adaptation, analysis reveals that the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Access to Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
DeRenzo, Forest – ProQuest LLC, 2015
In the 2014 school year, California implemented the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These new standards provided California's teachers, from multiple disciplines, the opportunity to collaborate on interdisciplinary curricula. Given the newness of the adoption, research on Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers and core…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Common Core State Standards, School Districts
Zinth, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2016
Allowing high school students to fulfill a math or science high school graduation requirement via a computer science credit may encourage more student to pursue computer science coursework. This Education Trends report is an update to the original report released in April 2015 and explores state policies that allow or require districts to apply…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Requirements, Computer Science Education, Educational Trends
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LaBelle, Jeffrey; Kendall, Daniel – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
What common values do diverse Jesuit institutions share? In what ways are Jesuit colleges and universities working to maintain mission, identity, and traditions within the context of 21st-century higher education? To ground their response to these questions, the researchers first review the historical and ecclesial developments that have…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Catholics
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Hothem, Thomas – Journal of General Education, 2013
The University of California-Merced's Core 1 has potential to foster genuine interdisciplinary thinking by asking students to conceptualize knowledge across fields of inquiry. Core 1 introduces students to the range of scholarly inquiry at the university all in the span of one semester-long, writing-intensive, integrated curriculum that encourages…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, General Education, Integrated Curriculum
Schultz, Bob – Leadership, 2013
Almost three-fourths of the American public has lost confidence in the nation's schools, but the recent passage of the Proposition 30 shows that the majority of voters in California hold on to their hope for their schools. School administrators need to build on that vote of confidence, starting at the local level, so they can help the public…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Support, Leaders, Taxes
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Pollack, Seth S. – Journal of General Education, 2013
Traditional approaches to civic engagement have been marginalized and have had little impact on the core curriculum. "Critical civic literacy" is an alternative curricular approach to civic engagement that explicitly moves departments, disciplines, and degree programs to examine issues of social responsibility and social justice from the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Core Curriculum, Social Responsibility, Social Justice
Umansky, Ilana M.; Reardon, Sean F.; Hakuta, Kenji; Thompson, Karen D.; Estrada, Peggy; Hayes, Katherine; Maldonado, Hilda; Tandberg, Susan; Goldenberg, Claude – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2015
Recent policy changes in California's education system have opened up a unique opportunity to improve educational opportunities for the state's 1.4 million English learner students (ELs). The implementation of new state standards including new English Language Development standards will require major changes in teaching and learning for all…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Educational Opportunities, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
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Valdez, Shelly; Marshall, David – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2013
Content standards have been identified in America as a solution to the declining rate of student success in the public education system. But content standards are not a "silver bullet," for a number of reasons. This chapter presents an intersegmental approach to vertical curriculum alignment that returns questions of student readiness to…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Curriculum Design, Readiness, Academic Standards
Gonzales, Lisa; Gunderson, Jessica; Wold, Mara – Leadership, 2013
After-school and summer programs are huge assets to the school day. Kids need time to play, explore and have fun, and after-school and summer staff are well suited to provide those kinds of experiences. Expanded learning programs have the unique potential at school sites where structured, facilitated conversations are taking place about student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time on Task, State Standards, Caring
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