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Direct linkHenderson, Carrie; Ivey, Abbey – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Mathematics continues to be one of the most significant barriers to student success, particularly in the community college sector. Many students are placed into the algebra-based track, which is often viewed as the "safe" or most desirable option, when they likely would have been better served in an alternative mathematics pathway more…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
Lori A. Mumpower; Chad Rohrbacher; Joshua Caulkins; Jenna Korentsides – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Researchers seek to measure the extent to which faculty increased their student-centered practices in response to COVID-19 by analyzing course syllabi across three semesters. Faculty were randomly selected from two campuses of a STEM-focused institution (n = 110), each of whom had taught the same course during Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Fall 2022.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Course Descriptions
O'Banion, Terry – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
In the 1960s, general education was at the forefront of innovative programs in American community colleges. Every community college designed a program of a common core of courses for the common person. General education was so popular it was included as one of the required components of a comprehensive community college along with university…
Descriptors: Educational History, General Education, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction
Kester, Jessica; Block, Rebecca; Karda, Margaret Reinfeld; Orndoff, Harold, III – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Today, and historically, the presence of WAC/WID programs in the community college setting remains anemic when compared to Ph.D.-granting institutions. This fact is particularly troubling considering the AAC&U's research on high-impact practices and its correlation with WAC/WID theory and practice. This article empirically investigates the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Community Colleges, Educational Practices
Download full textWeber, Christine L.; Boswell, Cecelia; Smith, Donnajo – Gifted Child Today, 2008
Curricular reform is an intense process. Broad-based reform--like that at the statewide level--takes on complexities that may not be easily predictable. Two states, Texas and Florida, with a large diversity of gifted populations, learn from each other as they experience creating curriculum standards for their gifted students. This article…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability, Outcomes of Education
Balfanz, Robert; Bridgeland, John M.; Fox, Joanna Hornig; Moore, Laura A. – Civic Enterprises, 2011
America continues to make progress in meeting its high school dropout challenge. Leaders in education, government, nonprofits and business have awakened to the individual, social and economic costs of the dropout crisis and are working together to solve it. This year, all states, districts, and schools are required by law to calculate high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropouts, Global Approach
Garcia, Delia C.; Hasson, Deborah J. – School Community Journal, 2004
Family literacy programs reflect a recent trend in educational reform that has proven to be a successful educational model for all members of the family unit. Based on the literature that links family involvement to student achievement, these initiatives focus on empowering parents of school children. These programs have been particularly…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Family Involvement, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
Fryer, T. Bruce; Medley, Frank W., Jr. – 1987
Selected papers from the 1986 Southern Conference on Language Teaching on instruction for language proficiency are presented: "The Foreign Language Teacher: Confronting an Ever-Changing Profession" (Robert Di Donato); "Restructuring a Traditional Foreign Language Program for Oral Proficiency" (Filisha Camara-Norman, James…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
