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Large-Scale Interventions in Science Education: The Road to Utopia?
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Marx, Ronald W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
This article provides commentary on the five articles in this issue on large-scale interventions in science education for diverse student groups in varied educational settings. Using these articles as a point of departure, I discuss three challenges to science education research and practice. The first concerns the changed meaning of science…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Science Education, Measures (Individuals), Educational Change
Closing the Gaps: 2014 Progress Report. College for All Texans
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2014
"Closing the Gaps: The Texas Higher Education Plan" was adopted in October 2000 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The goal of the "Closing the Gaps" ("CTG") plan is to close educational gaps in participation, success, excellence, and research within Texas and between Texas and other states by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
Posture of National Science Foundation. Hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1991
This document presents a transcript of the hearing on the present state and future directions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the state of science and mathematics education in the United States. Testimony was presented by the director of the NSF and the deputy assistant direction of Education and Human Resources at NSF. The witnesses…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid