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Bobby K. Terry – Online Submission, 2011
Texas has some of the lowest SAT scores in the nation. They are ranked 36th nationwide in graduation rates and teacher salaries rank at number 33. The public school system in Texas has problems with overcrowding, violence, and poor performance on standardized testing. Currently 300,000 families have opted out of the public school system in order…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Curriculum Development, Program Development, Learning Theories
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Schwarzer, David; Bloom, Melanie – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2011
We believe that world language education at all levels of instruction in the United States is in crisis. In this article, we respond to this crisis by proposing a spectrum of situatedness and its relation to five distinct pedagogical approaches in world language education. We help to elucidate this spectrum with classroom vignettes, illustrating…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
BROWNELL, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1967
A SUMMER PROGRAM FOR TESTING AND EVALUATING MATERIALS DEVELOPED AT THE HAWAII CURRICULUM CENTER WAS CARRIED OUT IN JUNE AND JULY, 1967, AT THE UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL IN HONOLULU. THE PRIMARY GRADES LANGUAGE CLASS, USING FIRST-YEAR LANGUAGE MATERIALS WHICH STRESSED AURAL-ORAL SKILLS, READING, AND WRITING, ALSO TRIED OUT NEW METHODS IN…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation