Differentiated instruction engages students of all abilities as active learners, decision-makers, and problem solvers--making educational experiences more meaningful for all. This one-of-a-kind book proves that designing differentiated instruction can be simple and fun! Packed with creative adaptation ideas like fidget bags, doodle notes, and…

The purpose of this guide is to help chronically struggling schools restructure. "Restructuring" means major, rapid changes that affect how a school is led and how instruction is delivered. Restructuring is essential in achieving rapid improvements in student learning. The focus is on helping education leaders choose strategies that…

The Arctic Climate Modeling Program (ACMP) offered yearlong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professional development to teachers in rural Alaska. Teacher training focused on introducing youth to workforce technologies used in Arctic research. Due to challenges in making professional development accessible to rural teachers, ACMP…

This qualitative study investigated the barriers and facilitators that advisors of gay-straight alliances encounter when advocating for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) youth within schools. Twenty-two advisors were interviewed, and data revealed that multiple ecological systems (e.g., sociocultural, school, and individual…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if a significant relationship existed between the criterion variable of receiving or not receiving awards at the 1993 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and the predictor variables of resources and facilities, resource personnel, personal costs, time, and personal characteristics.…

Report of research dealing with the relationship between decentralization in New York City and curriculum development, change, and evaluation in the community school districts of the public school system. (EH)

This is a bibliography of documents published from 1983 to December 1987 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) contained in the database of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The extensive literature is organized into a compendium of 244 abstracts of research relating to NAEP to make a useful tool for other…

An inventory is presented which samples the vast range of resources available in humanistic education. Listed are institutions or programs thought to be important, representative, or distinctive. (Author/BJG)

The directory surveys sources of vocational information in each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands. For each of these, the directory provides the following information: the name, address, and phone number of the State Research Coordinating Unit Director; similar information for…

Containing over 90,000 entries, this index to 16mm educational films was compiled by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) from a computerized data base. This first volume of the three-volume set provides a subject index with subject headings used in many media producers' and educational institutions' catalogs. The titles…

Containing over 90,000 entries, this index to 16mm educational films was compiled at the National Information Center for Educational Media from a computerized data base. Information about each entry, alphabetically listed by title, includes size and physical description, length, series title reference when applicable, description of the contents,…

Retrieved from the computerized data base at the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM), this index to 35mm educational filmstrips is intended to provide a bibliographical guide to commercially available educational filmstrips. In this first volume of the index, filmstrips are listed in alphabetical order from A to G by title as…

In this second volume of the index, filmstrips are listed alphabetically from H to Z. For each entry, information is included about its size and physical description, a brief content description, series title reference when applicable, audience level, producer and distributor, year of release, and Library of Congress catalog card number. The names…

This bulletin contains six articles designed to assist teachers in understanding research and development activities so that they may have a more positive impact on educational practices in schools. The first article reviews significant issues in elementary education, focuses on problems that have prevented a successful implementation of past…