Every year, there are between 150,000 and 200,000 immigrant students in California who have been in U.S. schools for less than 3 years. These newcomers generally require specialized academic instruction and social services to succeed in school. Despite great efforts, many districts are struggling to create these conditions for success. Many…

We explore the disconnect between education policy and culturally sustaining instruction, curriculum, discipline, and assessment for African American Language (AAL) Learners. Framing the omission of language policies as linguistic violence and anti-Black linguistic racism, we discuss antecedent and contemporary educational language policies and…

The term "newcomers" is commonly used to describe students who have recently arrived in U.S. schools. Depending on usage, newcomers may mean students in their first 6 months in U.S. schools, in their first 4 years, or anywhere in between. A majority arrive speaking little to no English, most are from socioeconomically disadvantaged…

The purpose of this bulletin is to describe briefly the materials developed by the staff of Pueblo Elementary School, Scottsdale, Arizona, in a program aimed at providing individualized instruction in a continuous progress setting. Although each of the curriculum guides developed by the staff differ somewhat according to subject area, grade level,…

This report describes the methods and results of a 29-month project to make available to Kentucky's school children the best and most recent programs and techniques in innovative teaching through an improvement of curriculum management. The project identified and examined eight management areas and provided consultative service to local district…

The first section of this document contains a report on research conducted to develop a model to evaluate the attitudinal and behavioral goals of K-12 environmental education. The goals of environmental education are specified, the desired skill outcomes are listed, examples of evaluative techniques are given, and an evaluation of a 2-week unit on…

An outline is presented for the scope and sequence of the following topics to be covered in grades K-8: sets, operations, number theory, measurement, geometry, and number sentences. Details of a coding scheme for mathematics units, exemplary units for each level, and a description of the procedures used to correlate science and mathematics courses…

The Mobile Teacher Program was designed to improve the social studies and science curricula in the Indian River School District, Delaware. The objective of the program for the 1973 fiscal year was to increase the skills of sixth-grade students in social studies and science a) by one grade level on a nationally standardized test compared to…

This basic guide to a complete secondary mathematics curriculum is designed to ensure that each student will be presented uniform mathematical concepts and principles, geared to his individual needs, abilities, and interests. The guide is not planned for use with a particular textbook; instead, it is to serve as a core around which each teacher…

This guide includes a list of general objectives and a scope chart of units to be covered in grades K-12. Objectives for specific topics are listed and are coded to the scope chart; text sources and materials are suggested; and lists of learning activities and audiovisual aids are provided. Separate sections of the guide cover topics in elementary…

This guide is designed to assist curriculum developers, subject area specialists, and teachers in identifying environmental activities and learning aids appropriate for various grade levels. The guide attempts to integrate all grade levels by using the same conceptual scheme throughout the primary, intermediate, middle, and secondary levels. This…

This booklet, one of a series, has been developed for the project, A Program for Mathematically Underdeveloped Pupils. A project team, including inservice teachers, is being used to write and develop the materials for this program. The materials developed in this booklet include (1) number expressions, (2) symbols and ideas, (3) open equations,…

This document presents the results of a program-evaluation questionnaire given to elementary-school teachers in the State College Area School District, Pennsylvania. These teachers participated in an environmental education program under the auspices of an ESEA Title III Grant. The objectives of the program were to provide in-service activities in…

This booklet, one of a series, has been developed for this project, A Porgram for Mathematically Underdeveloped Pupils. A project team, including inservice teachers, is being used to write and develop the materials for this program. The materials developed in this booklet are based on activities involving (1) similar geometric figures, (2) similar…

This guide provides a framework that may be used by local science curriculum developers to produce units of study, each representing a process of science applied to one of the conceptual schemes of science within one of the major categories of science. Examples of variants, (at ten levels of sophistication), of the 18 major concepts which result…