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Direct linkAhn, Ruth; Catbagan, Paula; Tamayo, Kristin; I, Ji Yeong; Lopez, Mario; Walker, Pamela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study examines best practices in teaching mathematics to minority students through two case studies conducted at high-minority junior high schools in the USA and Japan. Observations, interviews, and conversations with the teachers in both countries focused on the research question: how do teachers successfully teach mathematics to minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Mathematics Instruction, Junior High School Students
Helgeson, John L., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The pressure educators, schools, and school districts face with meeting Adequate Yearly Progress on state assessments as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act has made some schools and school district reduce class offerings and time for subjects not considered core subjects. In addition, the rising obesity rates in students have prompted…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Correlation, Reading Achievement
Boone, Adriane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This applied dissertation was designed to provide a formative evaluation of junior high and high school curriculum reform as part of a state initiated pilot program in a rural school district in southwest Mississippi. The purpose of the program was to address and respond to the 8th-grade technology literacy requirements of the No Child Left Behind…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Federal Legislation, Dropout Rate
Download full textBallou, Dale; Springer, Matthew G. – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
Under the No Child Left Behind Act, states have been required to set minimum proficiency standards that virtually all students must meet by 2014. Sanctions of increasing severity are to be applied to schools that fail to meet interim targets, known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The authors examine the effect of this legislation using…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Federal Legislation, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedFlicek, Michael – ERS Spectrum, 2003
Examines the implementation and utility of the blocked longitudinal growth method (BLGM) to understand math course placement practices in junior high schools in one district. Found that movement away from a conventional and normative approach to a more flexible approach based on growth in math skills seems to be supported. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Barrera, Manuel; Liu, Kristi; Thurlow, Martha; Shyyan, Vitaliy; Yan, Ming; Chamberlain, Steve – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2006
English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities are two groups specifically targeted in NCLB for which schools must demonstrate "adequate yearly progress." However, ELLs with disabilities, a category where these two groups overlap, are not specifically mentioned in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Students with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning
