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Tag: making Tag » making- 1/1/09 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King
Inclusive education, in policy and practice, rejects the exclusion and segregation of students, for ANY reason: gender, language, household income, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, ability, or any dis/ability. Simultaneously, because of an active commitment to equity for all students, inclusive educational systems maximize the participation of all learners, by making learning opportunities relevant and high-quality. This is only achieved through the systemic exploration... - 1/5/09 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU
A lesson planning tool for teachers to examine: the structure of instruction, the demands and evaluation criteria of the tasks, the learning environment, the learning materials used, and the support structures needed. - 1/19/09 - Kristie Kauerz
"Prepared for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation by the Education Commission of the States, this paper presents a concise and highly operational definition of P-3 (pre-K through grade 3), outlines key guiding principles and provides a compelling case for "why P-3 now?" To that end, the study includes arguments from both research and experience that address: How P-3 benefits children in the early years and early grades, How P-3 makes education reform more child-friendly, How P-3 benefits state and... - 1/1/09 - Marshall, Kim
The article discusses ways that instructional decision making could widen achievement gaps for students. The author suggests educational leaders might increase achievement gaps through policies that benefit advantaged students, such as assigning novice teachers to classes with disadvantaged students, reducing professional development regarding classroom management and reducing classroom activities. She suggests effective teaching, a positive classroom environment, teacher collaboration... - 1/9/10 - Lisa Guernsey, Sara Mead
"We, as a nation, are doing a very good job of squandering human potential and making life harder for all Americans as a result. This has to stop. If our government, at the local, state, and federal level, does not start investing in education systems that reach children before kindergarten, and if it does not get serious about providing children with high-quality instruction throughout the earliest years of their schooling, it is wasting taxpayer dollars, ignoring decades of research and... - 1/5/09 - Campaign for High School Equity,
This is the Campaign for High School Equity’s inaugural publication. It “makes a compelling case for the need to invest in high schools and provides a blueprint for meaningful reform.” Its recommendations include a call to: (a) make all students proficient and prepared for college and work; (b) hold high schools accountable for student success; (c) redesign the American high school; (d) provide students with the excellent leaders and teachers they need to succeed; and (e) provide... - 1/3/09 - L. Scott Miller, Eugene Garcia
This report addresses the need for a much expanded early childhood education research and strategy development agenda concerned with making substantial, ongoing improvements in the reading readiness and reading achievement of Latinos and African Americans. The focus is on the early childhood years because the achievement patterns of racial/ethnic groups are largely established in the period from birth through the end of the third grade (ages eight or nine for most children). The emphasis is... - 1/14/09 - Torgesen, J. K., Houston, D. D. , Rissman, L. M. , Decker, S. M. , Roberts, G. , Vaughn, S. , Wexler, J., Francis, D. J. , Rivera, M. O., Lesaux, N.
This document developed by the Center on Instruction's Reading, Special Education and ELL Strands makes recommendations for improving literacy-related instruction in the content areas or across the entire school day, interventions for students reading below grade level, and recommendations for supporting literacy development in adolescent English language learners. - 1/1/06 - Harris, Douglas N., Herrington, Carolyn D.
The rise of accountability policies during the early 1990s coincided with an increase in the achievement gap between white and minority students, reversing decades of steady improvement in outcome equity. This article explores the policies that helped to reduce the achievement gap before 1990, the effects of the subsequent shift toward accountability, and what can be learned from past successes to guide the future development of accountability systems. An extensive review of research... - 1/5/09 - Dwight Denison, Leanna Stiefel, William Hartman, Michele Moser Deegan
"In this paper, we analyze the challenges involved in establishing a system to track costs at the school, grade, and subject level that will fit the needs of both internal and external users. To begin, we review the literature on cost accounting that is relevant to micro-level costs and the research that analyzes sub-district level resources. Next, we describe general challenges that arise in reporting at the level of the school and below and we then discuss school-level reporting in... - 1/16/09 - Raegen Miller
"Past initiatives to improve teacher quality offer two general lessons. First, simplistic responses—across-the-board raises, more stringent licensure requirements, mandated professional development—are extremely expensive, utterly ineffective, or both. Only policies that tightly link incentives to desired results stand a chance of being effective and affordable. Clearly, making such links requires a robust approach to assessing teachers’ impact on outcomes of interest, especially... - 1/23/09 - Susan Wilde Schwarz
"Overall rates of injury and death increase dramatically from childhood to late adolescence. Due to developmental and social factors, such as time spent without adult supervision and increasing independence, adolescents are more likely to engage in risk-taking behaviors than either younger children or adults. Biology also plays a role. The maturation of brain networks responsible for self-regulation often does not occur until late adolescence, making adolescents more likely to engage in... - 1/23/10 - Laura J. Kotloff
"Building on a long history of investments in OST learning, The Wallace Foundation launched an out-of-school learning initiative in 2003. The initiative was created to support citywide system-building efforts that could advance three interrelated goals for the OST field: improving program quality, making programs accessible to youth who need them most, and improving youth participation so more children can realize benefits. The Foundation granted funds to five cities to support their... - 1/1/99 - Gene I. Maeroff
- 1/1/08 - Campos, David
The article discusses how lessons taught to white and Asian students may eliminate the achievement gap. According to the author, social factors affect children of color including African American and Latino school children making them not as proficient as their white and Asian-American counterparts. An overview of the lesson plan reflecting questions on the students' personal experience that relate to social, political, and economic conditions is offered. The author suggests that teachers... - 1/2/10 - Center on Education Policy,
"Disparities between boys and girls in reading and mathematics achievement have long been a concern among educators. While the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) does not hold school systems directly accountable for making adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the male and female subgroups, as it does for racial/ethnic and other subgroups, the Act does require states and school districts to publicly report test results broken down by gender. These requirements to disaggregate and publicize test...
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