Publication Date
In 2025 | 250 |
Since 2024 | 1264 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4392 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 9876 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 17368 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 2933 |
Teachers | 1269 |
Administrators | 1179 |
Policymakers | 891 |
Researchers | 325 |
Community | 191 |
Counselors | 120 |
Students | 116 |
Parents | 103 |
Media Staff | 93 |
Support Staff | 40 |
More ▼ |
Location
California | 932 |
Australia | 741 |
Canada | 661 |
Texas | 653 |
Florida | 514 |
New York | 447 |
North Carolina | 425 |
Illinois | 411 |
United Kingdom | 378 |
United States | 378 |
Pennsylvania | 361 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 80 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 141 |
Does not meet standards | 78 |
Rao, Digumarti Bhaskara – 1996
Several international agencies related to the United Nations and the World Bank convened the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtein, Thailand, March 5 through 9, 1990. The 1,500 conference participants adopted two texts, the "World Declaration on Education for All" and the "Framework for Action To Meet Basic Learning…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Conferences, Developing Nations
Bridge, Connie; And Others – 1996
This report details results of the 1995-96 study of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) Preschool Programs, the fifth such evaluation of the state-mandated preschool programs of at-risk 4-year-old children and 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities. Following an executive summary and explanation of the methodology for the evaluation, this…
Descriptors: Attendance, Blacks, Disabilities, Educational Change
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
Both the school-to-work system and youth development theory emphasize preparing youth for adulthood. They share the following characteristics: prevention of problem behaviors, a belief that young people develop by learning actively and in context, a conviction that young people need opportunities to interact with and be respected by adults who…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Educational Resources
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act broadens the meaning of curriculum by calling for integrated learning organized into coherent sequences around broadly conceived career majors. Work experience, as well as academic and occupational study, is an assumed element of the integrated school-to-work curriculum. A variety of strategies for curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
This bulletin focuses on the requirement of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 that school-to-work initiatives engage representatives of organized labor in the development, implementation, and governance of a school-to-work system. The first section outlines what organized labor brings to the school-to-work initiative. The next section…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Integrated Curriculum
Wermuth, Thomas R.; And Others – Office of Student Services' Brief, 1997
This report highlights four urban comprehensive secondary schools that are developing, implementing, and evaluating reform initiatives that include vocational and technical education as a key component of these efforts. Efforts of these four high schools are described: Bryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska; Humboldt Secondary Complex, St. Paul,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies

Houston, W. Robert; And Others – 1995
The challenges of burgeoning enrollment and the high concentration of lower-income and ethnic minority students, a climate of low expectations, teacher and student mobility, and increasing drop-out rates, led to the formation of the Houston (Texas) Consortium of Urban Professional Development Centers. The consortium focuses on urban schools; it…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Consortia, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Frasier, Mary M.; And Others – 1995
This guidebook provides the basic information needed for inservice training in techniques for observing gifted characteristics in children from diverse population groups including economically disadvantaged and students with limited English proficiency. The training program is based on a specific Staff Development Model (SDM) and a Research-based…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Magney, John R. – 1996
A questionnaire on use of cooperative learning was distributed to all faculty (76 respondents) in the College of Technical Careers at Southern Illinois-Carbondale (SIUC) and a sample of the membership (66 respondents) of the American Technical Education Association (ATEA). For both samples, the main use of groupwork was with laboratory…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Group Dynamics
Patterson, Sharon R. – 1994
A program implemented in a rural elementary school in Florida had the goal of increasing parental involvement of students in grades 1, 4, and 5. The majority of students in the school were black, came from single-parent homes, and were considered low-income. Prior to program implementation, a parent survey revealed that of 53 parents, 21 read to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Homework
Boone, Edgar J. – 1992
Community-based programming (CBP) is a cooperative process in which a community college serves as the leader and catalyst in effecting collaboration among the people, leaders and community organizations in its service area. This report discusses the changing role of the community college, the nature of CBP, and expected outcomes of the process,…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Carter-Golden, Kathryn – 1994
A practicum was designed to develop training that would increase teachers' understanding of an integrated curriculum and how to plan for implementation. Subjects were 23 teachers at a K-5 elementary school. Training was developed to provide a common knowledge base of an integrated curriculum, productive collaboration and planning, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment
Guskey, Thomas R., Ed. – 1994
The perspectives in these essays present an examination of the Kentucky educational reform effort, with an examination of its rationale, various facets, and the reactions to its implementation. The ambitious assessment system includes multiple-choice and open-ended items, performance tasks, and portfolio assessments. The following are included:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Corbett, H. Dickson; Wilson, Bruce L. – 1990
This paper summarizes the results of a study of the local consequences of implementing statewide minimum competency tests. For American education to be the best in the world, the use of statewide and nationwide standardized testing as a primary policy tool for stimulating reform must be discontinued. Second, school district responses to such…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
Christian, Donna – 1994
Since the mid-1980s two-way bilingual education programs have attracted renewed interest as an effective way to educate both language-minority and language-majority students. This report, which describes and assesses the current state of such programs in the United States, is based on data collected from 169 schools during the 1991-92, 1992-93,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intercultural Communication, Language of Instruction, Limited English Speaking