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Zirkel, Perry A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
This article delineates the four successive dimensions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) central obligation of "free appropriation public education" that the courts have developed thus far: (a) procedural, (b) substantive, (c) incomplete implementation of the last Individualized Education Program (IEP), and (d)…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
Holland, Christopher – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
The following article examines the implementation and controversy that surround climate change education and the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In order to fully understand why NGSS and climate change education continue to generate significant public debate, one must examine the work of both climate advocates and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Climate, Science Curriculum
Neber, Heinz – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
Implementing programs for gifted students requires solutions on multiple levels of the education system. In this article, Heinz Neber suggests streamlining the topic with five interacting, systemic levels. Each level requires its own definitions and clarifications. These should be coordinated and prioritized according to prominent goals and…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Academically Gifted, Instructional Improvement, Program Implementation
Wechsler, Marjorie E.; Kirp, David L. – Teachers College Press, 2018
This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states--Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Development, Preschool Curriculum
Geer, Wil – Educational Foundations, 2018
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represent an historic shift in K-12 curricular policy. Yet,few have explicitly traced the lineage of the CCSS and linked them to the decades-old standards-based reform movement. This essay situates the CCSS within the larger historical context of standards-based reform. It concludes with a discussion of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Common Core State Standards, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
McLeroy, Kenneth R.; Garney, Whitney; Mayo-Wilson, Evan; Grant, Sean – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
This article is based on a presentation that was made at the 2014 annual meeting of the editorial board of "Health Education & Behavior." The article addresses critical issues related to standards of scientific reporting in journals, including concerns about external and internal validity and reporting bias. It reviews current…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Scientific Research, Research Reports, Academic Standards
Waters, Stewart; Watson, Jenna – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
All over the world, schools are tasked with the objective of preparing young adults to be contributing members of society. Perhaps no other content area is as important in this task than the field of social studies. Unfortunately, social studies continue to be a marginalized field in the United States. This article seeks to explore the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Academic Standards, Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation
Edgerton, Adam; Desimone, Laura – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2017
Roughly seven years have passed since the majority of states adopted college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards. Some states adopted the Common Core State Standards while others adopted their own versions of CCR standards. Because teachers are the primary implementers of CCR standards, we wanted to understand the challenges they face in using…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Standards
Jacobson, Trudi E.; Gibson, Craig – Communications in Information Literacy, 2015
Following the action of the ACRL Board in February 2015 in accepting the "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" as one of the "constellation of documents" that promote and guide information literacy instruction and program development, discussion in the library community continues about steps in implementing…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Academic Libraries
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2015
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is one of two multi-state consortia that have built new assessment systems aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is composed of 18 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands that have worked together to develop a comprehensive assessment system aligned to the…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, College Readiness
Hammond, Jennifer – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This article presents an Australian perspective on the issue of standards-based education and the place of students of English as an additional language (EAL) who are working within mainstream schools. Beginning with an overview of the various standards documents that impact the lives of teachers and their students in mainstream Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Academic Standards, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Wolfe, Adam – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2015
In their article, "The Common Core is a Change for the Better," Gardner and Powell (2013) make an argument in support of implementing the Common Core to improve teaching and student learning. They opine the Common Core will enable students to become more college and career ready and state the Common Core standards will provide…
Descriptors: State Standards, Evidence, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Thurston Domina; Ryan Lewis; Priyanka Agarwal; Paul Hanselman – Grantee Submission, 2015
This brief documents the expansion of instructional specialist staffing in U.S. public school districts. We use data from the National Center of Education Statistics' annual Common Core of Data to chart staffing trends in public school districts between 1997-98 and 2012-13. The number of instructional specialists per 1,000 U.S students doubled…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Longitudinal Studies
Thurston Domina; Ryan Lewis; Priyanka Agarwal; Paul Hanselman – Educational Researcher, 2015
This brief documents the expansion of instructional specialist staffing in U.S. public school districts. We use data from the National Center of Education Statistics' annual Common Core of Data to chart staffing trends in public school districts between 1997-1998 and 2012-2013. The number of instructional specialists per 1,000 U.S students doubled…
Descriptors: Specialists, Public Schools, School Districts, School Personnel
Best, Jane; Cohen, Courtney – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2013
This policy brief outlines the Common Core implementation plans for 15 states, including the professional development and resources/tools--such as instructional materials, toolkits, frameworks, crosswalks, and curriculum guides--that each state is providing. The authors suggest that supplemental resources like McREL's Common Core…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Objectives, Instructional Materials