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Lewis, Warren – 1995
Whole language, a theory of language instruction that was developed primarily in terms of helping children learn to read, has now been extended to middle- and secondary-school levels. Andragogy, the learning of adults, is a specific theory of adult education, conceived in contradistinction to pedagogy, the teaching of children. When these two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Andragogy, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Communities
McQuillan, Jeff – 1998
This digest investigates seven of the most prevalent and damaging myths about literacy in the United States. In response to various claims about American elementary and secondary students' test score declines in reading achievement, the author interprets data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the International…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia
Gersten, Russell; And Others – 1992
A study assessed and compared the effectiveness of two distinct approaches of bilingual education used within a single school district in El Paso (Texas). The program designs, one a traditional transitional bilingual and the other a bilingual immersion, were implemented under similar conditions of resources, school year length, class size, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
McCarty, T. L. – 1993
A study investigated factors supporting innovation in American Indian education by comparing data from two separate studies. One was a followup study of 25 Indian educators' implementation of cooperative learning and whole language techniques, which sought to identify: (1) the impact of the innovations on student achievement; and (2) factors that…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Case Studies