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Swalwell, Katy; Rodríguez, Noreen Naseem; Updegraff, Amy; Winters, Leslie Ann – Harvard Educational Review, 2023
In this article authors Katy Swalwell, Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Amy Updegraff, and Leslie Ann Winters share findings from their critical content analysis of the free preK--5 resources for antiracist, social justice teaching in the Teachers Pay Teachers' Teach for Justice collection. Using Picower's (2012) six elements of social justice curriculum…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Social Justice, Racism
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Edelson, 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
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Schaefli, Laura M.; Godlewska, Anne M. C.; Rose, John – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
This article investigates the portrayal of colonialism and Indigenous peoples in curricula and textbooks in the province of Ontario, Canada. The analysis is focused on the curricular documents and texts that constituted Ontario's social studies and Canadian and World Studies stream between 2003 and 2015, which have informed the understanding of a…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Indigenous Populations, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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Graham, Lori; Graham, Anna; West, Courtney – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
This study was designed to demonstrate the effect of implementing multi-component vocabulary strategy instruction in fourth grade social studies. Curriculum was designed for a six-week period and was intended to actively engage students and reinforce retention of word meanings in isolation and in context. Teachers were randomly chosen for…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 4, Social Studies, Curriculum Design
Thaler, Cheryl D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Since the United States Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, school districts have been charged with ensuring that all students are proficient in reading and math by 2014. Schools failing to achieve are labeled as failing or needing improvement. This study sought to determine if commercially produced elementary math curricula…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Grade 4, Mathematics Achievement
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Alim, H. Samy; Baglieri, Susan; Ladson-Billings, Gloria; Paris, Django; Rose, David H.; Valente, Joseph Michael – Harvard Educational Review, 2017
In the fall of 2016, the "Harvard Educational Review" ("HER") published "Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning: Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy that Accounts for Dis/Ability" by Federico R. Waitoller, assistant professor in the Department of Special Education at the University…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Disabilities, Talent, Inclusion
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Starobin, Soko S.; Chen, Yu; Kollasch, Aurelia; Baul, Tushi; Laanan, Frankie Santos – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Using statewide survey study data collected from more than 5,000 community college students, this study examined the impact of a preengineering curriculum on students' self-efficacy level after they entered rural community colleges. Project Lead The Way (PLTW), is a project-based learning curriculum for middle and high school students that strives…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Rural Schools, Engineering
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Cabassa, Leopoldo J. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Bridging the gap between research and practice is a critical frontier for the future of social work. Integrating implementation science into social work can advance our profession's effort to bring research and practice closer together. Implementation science examines the factors, processes, and strategies that influence the uptake, use, and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship, Public Policy, Ethnicity
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Diggles, Kimberly – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014
Racial awareness is a critical foundation to racial sensitivity, and it is a necessity for future professionals who want to be prepared to succeed in an increasingly diverse society. Several factors have been shown to influence racial awareness in professionals including their own race, their personal experience with racism, and the amount/quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Differences, Teacher Competencies, Knowledge Level
American Political Science Association (NJ1), 2011
Is political science positioned to embrace and incorporate the changing demographics, increasing multicultural diversity, and ever-growing disparities in the concentration of wealth present in many nation-states? Can political science do so within its research, teaching, and professional development? These two questions were the focus of the work…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Political Science, Public Administration, Professional Development
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Black, Ruth Claire, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Student retention has become a difficult issue within higher education. As such, it is imperative to examine the causes, as well as provide educators with strategies to implement to improve retention rates. "Critical Assessment and Strategies for Increased Student Retention" is a pivotal reference source for the latest progressive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Study Abroad
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Maleyko, Glenn; Gawlik, Marytza A. – Education, 2011
Drawing from empirically based and theoretical literature in the field, this review examines Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and the accountability provisions found in Title One of the NCLB legislation. States have the ability to statistically manipulate their AYP implementation, which may give a false impression to the public that AYP is a…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, School Effectiveness, Accountability, Federal Programs
Allen, B. J., Jr.; And Others – 1982
A survey was conducted at Florida State University's College of Education to determine the status of the instructional aspects of multicultural education and to recommend new directions to insure that multicultural education is adequately addressed in the college's curriculum. The study focused on the extent to which 60 courses addressed sex,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda. – 1994
This report describes a three-year project at the California School of Professional Psychology (Alameda Campus) to train graduate students in professional psychology to meet the mental health needs of clients from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds. Multicultural content was integrated into all required courses, using a variety of resources and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Counselor Training, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
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Riegle-Crumb, Catherine – American Journal of Education, 2006
Using new national data from Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA), this article examines high school math patterns for students of different race-ethnicity and gender. Compared with white males, African American and Latino males receive lower returns from taking Algebra I during their freshman year, reaching lower levels of the math…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Males, Educational Attainment, High School Students
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