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National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2023
The National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning (National AEM Center) at CAST is a technical assistance (TA) center funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The purpose of the Center is to improve educational and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities through…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Knowledge Level, Skill Development, Educational Indicators
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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
Schools have long partnered with local organizations to support access to essential services like food, housing, or mental and physical health. Schools can build on wrap-around school models by helping students and families intentionally cultivate community relationships, skills, and knowledge, thus putting students on a path toward long-term…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, School Health Services, Models, Skill Development
Rissman, Lila M.; Miller, Debra H.; Torgesen, Joseph K. – Center on Instruction, 2009
The purpose of this "Adolescent Literacy Walk-Through for Principals" ("ALWP") is to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively. To meet the goals of improving adolescent literacy in grades four through twelve, principals must be familiar with what literacy instruction…
Descriptors: Intervention, Knowledge Level, Literacy, Professional Development
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1992
The Urban Education Project developed by Research for Better Schools, Inc., has focused on meeting the needs of urban students in a changing and demanding society by creating the Urban Education Framework, which presents a new vision of the urban learner as culturally diverse, capable, motivated, and resilient. This vision suggests that urban…
Descriptors: Ability, Cultural Differences, Decision Making, Educational Change
Banks, James A. – 1991
A major goal of this fifth edition is to help present and future teachers acquire the knowledge, concepts, strategies, and resources needed to integrate information about ethnic groups into the mainstream curriculum. This edition incorporates new terms and concepts that are emerging in the field of multicultural education. Information on ethnic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Americans, Blacks
Palmer, Ezra – 1993
Prejudice and how it can lead to discrimination is discussed with children as the audience. Discrimination begins with prejudice: the idea that one group is better than another. Although prejudice is morally wrong, it is not illegal, but it can lead to illegal discrimination. Discrimination is discussed with regard to: (1) individual rights; (2)…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitudes, Beliefs, Childrens Literature
Marzano, Robert J.; Pickering, Debra; McTighe, Jay – 1993
Dimensions of Learning is an instructional model that is based on the premise that five types of thinking are essential to the learning process: (1) positive attitudes and perceptions about learning; (2) thinking involved in acquiring and integrating new learning; (3) thinking in extending and refining knowledge; (4) thinking in using knowledge…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level
Clark, Richard W. – 1995
This guide describes the general expectations and major purposes of partner schools in the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER). Partner schools work in partnership with higher education for the training of teachers and the renewal of education. The partner schools all share a commitment to the 19 postulates enumerated by John I.…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Research, Educational Resources, Elementary Schools