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Roskos, Kathleen; Neuman, Susan B. – Reading Teacher, 2013
Joseph Schwab, a curriculum theorist, described four commonplaces, or universals, of teaching: content, students, milieu and teachers. This article considers how the Reading Standards of the ELA-CCSS are shaping these commonplaces in the teaching of reading. The organization of the Reading Standards, for example, focuses on two broad grade bands,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, State Standards, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Koury, Amanda S. – University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development, 2013
This Special Report is a summary of the author's original paper, "It's About Time: Extending Learning to Narrow the Achievement Gap." The family income of students is a consistent predictor of academic achievement across the United States, where an achievement gap between the most and least affluent students has long persisted and shows…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Extended School Year, Summer Programs
Oyo, Benedict; Kalema, Billy Mathias – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Africa is known for inadequate access to all sorts of human needs including health, education, food, shelter, transport, security, and energy. Before the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), open access to higher education (HE) was exclusive of Africa. However, as a generally affordable method of post-secondary education delivery,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Sustainability, Open Education, Online Courses
Paul, Cynthia S.; Vaidya, Sheila R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
What does it take to change a school's mathematics achievement profile from low to one that is proficient and advanced? Is this transformed achievement profile sustainable? Such is the story presented here, in this three-phase case study of a K-8 urban charter school's mathematics program. The first phase discusses the school's…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Case Studies, Profiles
Zaid, Abdelkarim; Champy-Remoussenard, Patricia – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This article focuses on professional work placements for teachers of business and management. These one-year work placements seek to develop the teachers' knowledge of the business world, allowing them to improve their teaching practice and produce new pedagogical resources. We examine here, from the teachers' point of view, two questions: What…
Descriptors: Barriers, Business Education, Teacher Placement, Learning Processes
Balduzzi, Lucia; Lazzari, Arianna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
In recent years, the issue of early childhood staff professionalisation has been taking an increasingly prominent position in policy-making and academic debates at the international level. Despite this growing interest, studies investigating the content and delivery of professional preparation programmes for early childhood practitioners are still…
Descriptors: Mentors, Workplace Learning, Context Effect, Educational Policy
Andrew Wiegand; Michelle Manno; Sengsouvanh Leshnick; Louisa Treskon; Christian Geckeler; Heather Lewis-Charp; Castle Sinicrope; Mika Clark; Brandon Nicholson – MDRC, 2015
YouthBuild is intended to help high school dropouts, ages 16 to 24, who face an array of impediments to their educational and employment success as they progress into adulthood. Stemming from one program launched in the late 1970s, today over 270 YouthBuild programs operate nationwide. YouthBuild is a principles-based model that values a…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Adolescents, Young Adults, Youth Programs
Libresco, Andrea S.; Balantic, Jeannette – Social Education, 2012
This article presents what the authors consider to be the ten top websites for teaching about issues in the election season. These include: (1) The Annenberg Political Fact Check--a non-partisan organization that assesses the accuracy of candidates' information in ads, speeches, and debates; (2) The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Ads…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elections, Political Issues, Web Sites
Riedinger, Kelly – Childhood Education, 2012
This article begins with two examples that demonstrate adult interactions with young learners during conversations in informal learning environments. Family visits to informal learning environments provide opportunities to learn together, interact, engage in conversations, and learn more about one another. This article explores family learning in…
Descriptors: Parents, Children, Program Content, Speech Communication
Cohen, Jacqueline N.; Byers, E. Sandra; Sears, Heather A. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2012
Non-specialist teachers in Canada are increasingly required to teach sexual health topics. However, research suggests that they do not always do so willingly. This study examined the associations between the characteristics of non-specialist elementary and middle school teachers (n = 294) in Canadian schools and their willingness to provide sexual…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Education, Specialists, Teaching Experience
Collins, Todd A.; Knotts, H. Gibbs; Schiff, Jen – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2012
We know little about the amount of career preparation offered to students in political science departments. This lack of information is particularly troubling given the state of the current job market and the growth of applied degree programs on university campuses. To address this issue, this article presents the results of a December 2010 survey…
Descriptors: Career Development, Evidence, Department Heads, College Programs
Chen, Yi-Chuen; Fortson, Beverly L.; Tseng, Kai-Wen – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2012
The purpose of the current study was to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program for Taiwanese children. Forty-six Taiwanese children age 6 to 13 were divided into one of two groups based on their school grade and then randomly assigned to a skills-based child sexual abuse prevention program who…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Child Abuse, Prevention, Safety
Wu, Bin; Abad, Jorge – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper reports a problem-based learning model for the training of university students in the area of industrial energy efficiency, and discusses its context, contents, and the results from its implementation. The impact has been significant, with hundreds of university graduates trained and many of them now working in industry, leading their…
Descriptors: Energy, Energy Education, Labor Force Development, Problem Based Learning
Katterjohn, Anna – Library Journal, 2010
On May 25-26 in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) will present new events for participants. To lighten participants' totes, BEA is partnering with Above the Treeline to create a free online catalog (Books@BEA) of the new and forthcoming titles on the show floor. There will also be a searchable database of all the authors participating in show…
Descriptors: Online Catalogs, Online Systems, Exhibits, Electronic Publishing
Roux, Ruth; Valladares, Jorge Luis Mendoza – English Language Teaching, 2014
The effective implementation of any educational reform is largely dependent on the preparation of teachers. In the case of the National English Program in Basic Education, (NEPBE) implemented in public schools in Mexico in 2009, teacher preparation options have been designed by both public and private higher education institutions in several…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development