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Direct linkBranch, Cynthia Monroe – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 put a focus on each child in a school being proficient. Since 1957 when Sputnik was launched, the United States has been attempting to improve its schools. The existing literature has a gap as to how to turn around an underperforming school in a fairly short period of time. A qualitative case study methodology…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Secondary Schools, Rural Schools, Educational Improvement
Singh, Kathryn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Today, more than ever, teachers must work effectively and efficiently to meet seemingly contradictory demands placed on them by society. On the one hand, school personnel are tasked with attaining and publicly reporting high levels of student achievement in response to No Child Left Behind. On the other, school personnel must ensure that students…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Federal Legislation, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership
Helberg, Paula A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Two recent changes in federal law have made an impact on reading instruction in the United States, particularly for students for whom learning to read is difficult. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002, requires that all students meet an achievement standard in reading by the year 2014. NCLB also recognizes that reading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Consultants, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedTucker, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
New technology-enabled assessments offer the potential to understand more than just whether a student answered a test question right or wrong. Using multiple forms of media that enable both visual and graphical representations, these assessments present complex, multistep problems for students to solve and collect detailed information about an…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Problem Solving, Student Characteristics, Information Technology
Download full textSriraman, Bharath – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2005
At the K-12 level one assumes that mathematically gifted students identified by out-of-level testing are also creative in their work. In professional mathematics, "creative" mathematicians constitute a very small subset within the field. At this level, mathematical giftedness does not necessarily imply mathematical creativity but the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creativity, Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education
Popkewitz, Thomas – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
School subjects are analogous to medieval alchemy. There is a magical change as mathematics, science, and social sciences move from their disciplinary spaces into the classroom. The educational and social psychologies have little or nothing to do with understanding disciplinary practices. They are intellectual inventions for normalizing and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
