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Peurach, Donald J.; Glazer, Joshua L.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Conventional thinking holds that districts and schools face a strategic decision between two fundamentally different alternatives: make or buy? The former refers to planning, designing, and enacting school-specific improvement initiatives. The latter refers to contracting with external providers of schoolwide improvement programs. However, there…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Decision Making
DePauw, Julie – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
Two Oregon science education programs are described following an introduction that discusses underlying problems in science education and approaches taken by exemplary practices. Exemplary practices involve the process method of instruction, teacher training, utilization of science resources outside the school, and instruction that emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Garvey, Reba – 1980
The first of three project goals formulated for the Cleveland Public Schools was to improve the level of mastery of specified language and mathematics skills. The second, but primary, goal of this three-year endeavor was to develop, implement, and refine a replicable mastery-learning instructional model involving a staff team (English teacher/…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Grade 7
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Retallick, John; And Others – Education in Rural Australia, 1995
Through a combination of workshops and distance education, rural Australian middle-school teachers learned outcome-based programming, teaching, and assessment designed to improve outcomes of students experiencing educational disadvantage related to rural isolation, poverty, or aboriginality. Workplace learning, supported by in-school collegial…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Ten of the twenty Education Service Centers (ESC) that provide instructional and technical services to the local school districts in Texas were asked to participate in a project designed to demonstrate infusion and management techniques in career education. Activities were accomplished under the following objectives: (1) establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. Career and Vocational Education Section. – 1978
To infuse career education with language arts and science, a task force of Oregon educators developed, evaluated, and finalized a set of seven career education competencies for secondary language arts and science teachers, 7-12. These competencies cover the following areas: attitudes toward life and careers; job search method and job adjustment;…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Communication Skills, Community Resources