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Download full textStarr, Joshua P. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The federal "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) legislation required school districts to ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects met the requirements to be designated highly qualified by July 1, 2006. However, because no Maryland counties were able to comply with the 100 percent highly qualified designation by July 1,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Counties
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. Program Implementation and Review Branch. – 1988
An Ontario (Canada) provincial review of geography instruction was undertaken to: (1) determine student achievement levels and program effectiveness; (2) identify implementation strategies for a compulsory course, entitled "Canadian Studies Geography"; and (3) pilot test a new review model designed to analyze intended, implemented, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
Hanson, Bradley A.; Bay, Luz; Loomis, Susan Cooper – 1998
Research studies using booklet classification were implemented by the American College Testing Program to investigate the linkage between the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Achievement Levels Descriptions and the cutpoints set to represent student performance with respect to the achievement levels. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Cutting Scores, Discriminant Analysis
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2001 geography results show student improvement since 1994 at grades 4 and 8. The average score of twelfth-grade students, however, has not changed significantly when compared to 1994 results. This colorfully illustrated and easy-to-read report, which highlights findings of "The Nation's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography
Lazer, Stephen – 1992
As a step toward acquiring international measures of geographic competence of students, an optional geography component was included in the second International Assessment of Educational Progress. Nine of the 20 countries participating in the assessment included the geography component, including 8 provinces. In each country a representative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Family Environment, Geographic Concepts
Weiss, Andrew R.; Lutkus, Anthony D.; Hildebrant, Barbara S.; Johnson, Matthew S. – 2002
In 2001, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducted a geography assessment of the nation's fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students. This report presents the results of that assessment. Results in 2001 are compared to results of 1994's NAEP geography assessment, which was the preceding NAEP geography assessment and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Baldwin, Harriet; And Others – 1984
Statistics representing social and economic conditions in 125 developed and developing countries with populations of more than one million are presented. The booklet presents a series of maps, charts, graphs and tables representing separate sections on life expectancy, adult literacy rate, population growth rate, gross national product per capita,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
