NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
National Association for Sport and Physical Education, 2013
A quality physical education program provides learning opportunities, appropriate instruction, meaningful and challenging content, and student and program assessment. In addition, a quality physical education improves mental alertness, academic performance, and readiness and enthusiasm for learning in the nation's youth. This brief provides a list…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Program Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Instruction
Furman, Gary – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Federal stimulus funding expired in 2011-12. NCLB performance mandates approached the 2013-14 deadline. The ESEA waiver became an option with first year of implementation, 2012-13. This convergence of forces and timeline provided the opportunity for this study. The study sought to explore whether or not superintendents from Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Superintendents, Administrator Role, Administrator Responsibility
MENDELSOHN, MELVIN – 1968
THIS COMPENDIUM IS ONE OF A SERIES DESCRIBING CONTINUING TITLE I, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT (ESEA) PROJECTS FROM DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL AND SERVICE AREAS. PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS FOR 25 TITLE I, ESEA PROJECTS INVOLVING MATHEMATICS EDUCATION GIVE A RANGE OF COVERAGE IN DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL AND SERVICE DOMAINS, INCLUDING CURRICULUM…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Witte-Townsend, Darlene L.; Hill, Anne E. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
When young children first come to school they bring with them a depth of being; the authors suggest that the educational community should respond to children with a pedagogy that is capable of nurturing this depth. The authors of this paper are teachers of many years' experience. Their own work in classrooms has shown them that, paradoxically,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Indexes, Ethics, Instruction
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1972
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics discussed are education failings, including inadequate budges and ineffective courses, teaching, and curricula; evidence of success; compensatory education; education finance; dropout prevention; minority…
Descriptors: Failure, Budgets, Courses, Instruction