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Download full textAlfaro, Moises; Jones, Don; Holland, Glenda; Mundy, Marie-Anne – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
Recent national and state standards of accountability have focused on increasing student performance and achievement as well as teacher quality. Included in this challenge is the issue of teacher compensation and how it has evolved with the efforts of providing quality instruction in order to improve the performance of students. Texas has…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Incentive Grants, State Policy, Policy Analysis
Peer reviewedMitchell, Murray F.; Earls, Ruth Fairfield – Physical Educator, 1987
A study examining state-mandated time requirements for kindergarten through twelfth-grade physical education found a wide span, ranging from impressive commitments to dismally brief time allocations. About 60 percent of states had no guidelines or required fewer than 300 hours for the 13 years of schooling. (CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Physical Education, Program Length
Direct linkWills, John S. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: Recent research indicates that social studies is being "squeezed" from the elementary curriculum as instructional time is shifted to language arts and mathematics in response to state testing and the federal No Child Left Behind Act, especially in schools serving poor students and students of color. However, less is…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Language Arts, Social Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques
