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Direct linkEdelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
Apps, Kerry – Teaching History, 2021
Having been given some additional curriculum time, Kerry Apps and her department made decisions about what had been missing in the previous curriculum diet. Building on an existing enquiry (already published in "Teaching History 176"), Apps decided to focus on how and when the idea of race in its modern sense developed in early modern…
Descriptors: Race, Thinking Skills, Primary Sources, History Instruction
Lee, Charles T. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Using an autoethnographic approach, this article draws on my personal experience as an Asian Pacific American (APA) political theorist who has navigated between different institutional spaces to reflect on a phenomenon that I call "elastic racialization" of APAs in higher education and its implications on our pedagogic agenda and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Faculty, Political Science, Higher Education
Hamilton, Laura S.; Kaufman, Julia H. – Educational Assessment, 2022
The "twin pandemics" of racial injustice and COVID-19 have underscored the importance of promoting civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and engagement among the nation's young people. Although some evidence has demonstrated that civic-learning opportunities are inequitably distributed across U.S. schools and communities, we currently…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Citizenship Education, Educational Quality, Educational Indicators
Lindsey, Janell – About Campus, 2019
American higher education has often been more exclusive than inclusive in its higher education admission practices. Community colleges have greatly assisted in closing the gap of accessing higher education as they have become the chosen college entry point for students of color. Community colleges often remain the first choice for African American…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Community Colleges, Equal Education
Download full textArendse, Agnetha; Smith, Juliana – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
The transition from apartheid to democracy necessitated radical transformation within the South African political, socio-economic and education landscape. Black and coloured students were only fit for unskilled or semi-skilled occupations resulting in under-qualified and poorly trained professionals. Since the inception of democracy, there was a…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Citizenship Education, Social Change, Racial Segregation
Luckett, Kathy; Shay, Suellen – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
While acknowledging higher education's complicity in inequality, the premise of this paper is that curriculum transformation can be one means of challenging and dismantling structural injustices towards the goal of equity of access and outcomes. Fraser's multi-dimensional framework for social justice is drawn upon to explore what this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Yarrison, Betsy Greenleaf – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019
Despite being originally designed to educate men, honors programs are not very attractive to male students in general and to male students of color in particular. Because access to honors programs is limited by a credentialing process that favors white men, many members of minority groups find them inhospitable and are significantly…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Males, Minority Group Students, Student Participation
Davis, Crystal U. – Journal of Dance Education, 2018
Dance education in American schools from P-12 through higher education are affected by the pervasive reach of Whiteness. Well-intentioned and passionate dance educators feel the effects of and are instrumental in the institutions Whiteness has reified in the American educational system. In order to dismantle inequity and marginalization of Black…
Descriptors: Whites, Power Structure, Social Differences, Dance Education
Justin Olmanson; Zoe Falls; Guieswende Rouamba – Advances in Race and Ethnicity in Education, 2017
For more than a century, state and federal governments and organizations have used different measures to determine if students and groups of students have achieved in a particular subject or grade level. While the construct of achievement is applied irrespective of student differences, this equal application turns out to be anything but equitable.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Equal Education, African American Students
Milner, H. Richard, IV – American Educator, 2019
Author Richard Milner IV is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. The author of numerous articles and seven books, his research focuses on urban education, teacher education, and African American literature. Throughout his career studying the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Improvement, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Student Relationship
Byrd, Marie – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2020
Closing the U.S. academic achievement gap is as complex as it is comprehensive due to the disproportion of instructional opportunities available to underserved student populations. Underserved student populations are defined as minority and/or students of color from low-socioeconomic families and communities, English language learners and recent…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students, Cultural Awareness
Sole, Marla A. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2014
With rising personal and public debt, public and private employers increasingly shifting financial responsibility to individuals, and an increase in both the number of financial investment options and predatory lending practices, today's students need to be financially literate. This paper defines financial literacy and justifies its place in the…
Descriptors: Money Management, Literacy, Numeracy, Mathematics Curriculum
Diem, Sarah; Carpenter, Bradley W. – Planning and Changing, 2012
Despite the dramatic shift in demographics occurring within public schools, there is still a dismal amount of research connecting issues of diversity and race with the curricula guiding educational leadership preparation programs. In the field of leadership preparation, little information has been offered as to how professors facilitate social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Culturally Relevant Education
Segall, Avner – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2013
The author seeks to revitalize the interests of social educators in the value of using critical, postmodern discourses for rich comprehension of and productive scholarly research in our field. These discourses (a) challenge existing understanding within social education and the knowledge and knower they help produce; and (b) imagine more complex,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Discourse Modes, Postmodernism, Criticism
