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Mingyu Feng; Natalie Brezack; Chunwei Huang; Melissa Lee; Megan Schneider; Kelly Collins; Wynnie Chan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Math education remains a critical focus for national education improvement. As a solution, districts in the U.S. are investing in math education technologies. Research has demonstrated the potential of these technologies to close achievement gaps (e.g., Pape et al., 2012; Roschelle et al., 2016). Student math achievement is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Santorello, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In order to upgrade school buildings and make them healthier for students and staff, a recent trend has been to build environmentally sustainable schools, which benefit the environment and offer improved learning experiences for students. This qualitative case study examined Sustainability High School, a school in Massachusetts that successfully…
Descriptors: Sustainability, High Schools, Barriers, School Administration
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Levy, Dan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Getting students to prepare well for class is a common challenge faced by instructors all over the world. This study investigates the effects that two frequently used techniques to increase student preparation--web postings and cold calling--have on student outcomes. The study is based on two experiments and a qualitative study conducted in a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Study Habits, Assignments, Computer Mediated Communication
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2010
The American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Plus 50 Initiative (2008-2011), funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, was created to build the capacity of community colleges nationwide to develop programming that engages the plus 50 learner. The Initiative supported a pilot group of 13 two-year institutions to develop or expand college…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Student Personnel Services, Enrollment, School Community Relationship
Miller, Beth M.; Tung, Rosann; Ward, Rolanda – Center for Collaborative Education, 2008
The Pilot schools Experiential Education Demonstration (PSEED) project was intended to deepen and embed high-quality experiential education within each participating school's academic programs. A continuation of a multiyear set of initiatives by the Barr Foundation, PSEED was an effort to unify the foundation's content area foci on arts,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Demonstration Programs, Experiential Learning, Research Reports
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Gonzalez, Juan; And Others – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
A male minority-group high school student and a teacher at Putnam High School in Springfield (Massachusetts) share experiences with community service learning (CSL) projects. A project facilitator describes the plans for implementing CSL throughout the city. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Citizenship Education, Community Programs, High School Students