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Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) offers a flexible, collaborative approach to developing and implementing an assessment of learning outcomes that yields high-quality, nationally relevant data. MTEG is a service that involves ACER staff working closely with each country to develop an assessment program that meets the country's…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Progress Monitoring, Educational Quality
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Geiken, Nancy; Larson, Julie; Donham, Jean – Teacher Librarian, 1999
Block scheduling has the potential to affect several aspects of the library media program--information literacy instruction, collection development, access to the library media center, and collaboration between teacher and teacher- librarian. To explore these, two schools--a high school and middle school--that have implemented block scheduling are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Block Scheduling, Cooperative Planning, Educational Development
Louisiana Department of Education, 2006
This report describes the importance of redesigned high schools to engage full high school communities in the deliberate rethinking of virtually everything, ranging from how time is used, to how adults are deployed, even to the "places"where learning occurs. Essentially, redesigned high schools: (1) have high expectations for all…
Descriptors: Student Needs, High Schools, Time Blocks, Scheduling
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Trimis, Edward – Music Educators Journal, 1997
Extols the virtues of a year-round school schedule and identifies several schools where this practice has contributed to the success of the music program. Briefly discusses such key factors as staffing, budget, curriculum, logical sequence of instruction, and performance scheduling. Includes an example of a year-round schedule. (MJP)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Planning, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Rose, Lea Williams – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
As part of a national Middle Start initiative led by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Mid South Middle Start is committed to working with high-poverty schools in the Mid South Delta region to build their capacity to foster students' academic excellence, support the development of young adolescents, and achieve social equity in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Development, Block Scheduling, Teacher Effectiveness