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Download full textRobert Jean LeBlanc – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2024
Critical approaches to literature in secondary English require greater attention to narrative discourse. In this conceptual article, I provide interpretative tools from contemporary narratology and demonstrate their critical potential for high school English. In particular, I outline critical literacy's vital but overattentive focus on the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, Novels
Direct linkEisenbach, Brooke – New Educator, 2021
There has been an increase in research regarding the use of virtual platforms as a means of collaboration between middle level learners and preservice teachers. However, little attention has been given to the role of asynchronous collaborations in the form of virtual literature discussions and the preservice teacher experience. Through a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Middle School Students, Asynchronous Communication
Huck, Adam – Social Studies, 2019
While the primary focus of the Common Core Learning Standards is in improving literacy and math, elements of Social Studies topics and skills are emphasized. Primary source analysis and understanding multiple perspectives are just two examples. This article is grounded in a qualitative analysis of integrated instruction in two elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Social Studies, Common Core State Standards, Integrated Curriculum
Shore, Jane R.; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John P. – Grantee Submission, 2017
In the United States, educational thought leaders have called for higher expectations (Gordon Commission, 2010), more rigorous college and career readiness standards for K-12 education (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010), and new constructs such as 21st century skills…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, 21st Century Skills, Vignettes
Ho, Hsiang-Yeh – McREL International, 2020
Purpose: In January 2015, the Northwest Board of Cooperative Educational Services (NW BOCES) received a five-year Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to develop and implement the System for Educator Effectiveness Development (SEED) program--an innovative professional development (PD) system designed to provide geographically isolated educators an…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Program Descriptions, Faculty Development, Grants
Council of the Great City Schools, 2019
The purpose of this report is to help improve the academic achievement of English learners (ELs) in Providence Public Schools (PPSD) and to help the district meet the detailed requirements laid out in the Settlement Agreement that PPSD entered with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Knowing that the Council of the Great City Schools had…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English Language Learners, Public Schools, Language Arts
Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M. – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2017
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) examines how college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. The Center studies elementary and high school math and English Language Arts (ELA) standards, and…
Descriptors: State Policy, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards
Desimone, Laura M.; Edgerton, Adam K.; Yang, Rui – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2017
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) examines how college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. The Center studies elementary and high school math and English Language Arts (ELA) standards, and…
Descriptors: State Policy, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards
Edgerton, Adam; Desimone, Laura M.; Yang, Rui – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2017
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) examines how college- and career-ready standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation. The Center studies elementary and high school math and English Language Arts (ELA) standards, and has a…
Descriptors: State Policy, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards
Hanson, Thomas; Dietsch, Barbara; Zheng, Hong – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
Character education has become one of the fastest growing reform movements in K-12 education today, partially in response to unacceptable levels of student misbehavior and inadequate endorsement of good character values (Williams 2000). Between 1993 and 2009, 36 states passed laws mandating or recommending some aspect of character education in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Education
Burns, Amy; Whitney, Joye; Shah, Hardeek; Foley, Ellen; Dure, Elsa – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2011
In January 2010, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) identified Central Falls High School (CFHS) as one of the state's persistently lowest-achieving schools. The Central Falls School District (CFSD) and the Central Falls Teachers Union (CFTU) considered the transformation model but could not come to an agreement initially around…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Administration, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Meisch, Allison; Hamilton, Jennifer; Chen, Eva; Quintanilla, Priscilla; Fong, Pauline; Gray-Adams, Karen; Petta, Ian; Thornton, Nancy – Westat, 2011
This report summarizes the results of the Newark, New Jersey, Striving Readers program for project Years 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. This report updates one analysis (3 years); the remainder of the impacts and implementation findings are for Year 4. The Striving Readers Grant addresses the unmet needs of middle school students reading 2 or more years below…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Niemi, David; Wang, Jia; Steinberg, Diane H.; Baker, Eva L.; Wang, Haiwen – Educational Assessment, 2007
Validation of assessments intended to improve instruction and learning should include evidence of instructional sensitivity. This study investigated the instructional sensitivity of a standards-based ninth-grade performance assessment that required students to write an essay about conflict in a literary work. Before administering the assessment,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests, Literary Criticism
Pesa, Nicole; Somers, Sarah – Online Submission, 2007
This study describes a program designed to improve reading comprehension through the selection, application, and transfer of appropriate reading strategies with both fictional and informational texts. The targeted population consisted of seventh and eighth grade middle school students in a middle-class community in the western suburbs of Chicago,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Surveys, Intervention
Farrell, Donna; Reed, Dan – 1999
The implementation of the Houghton-Mifflin K-5 "Invitations to Literacy" language arts program was studied during its first year in California's Moreno Valley Unified School District. A sample teacher survey was developed, pilot tested, and sent to the District. The sample consisted of 658 regular, 20 special day, 19 resource specialist, and 118…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Language Arts
