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Topics: Qualitätssteigerung, Schule, United States, USA, Educational change -- United States, School...
This paper tries to present a careful analysis of current trends and challenges to importing Japanese model of teachers' professional development. The objective is to examine what "we" can learn from Japanese approach to improving instruction, especially "Jugyou Kenkyu" (Lesson Study) as a collaborative research on the teaching-learning process. The intention is to clarify what we can learn from Japanese "Lesson Study" which is practiced in the United States and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries,...
Educology is knowledge about education, and the educology of science education is knowledge about the process of teaching and studying science in some setting, e.g. in schools, colleges and universities. Part of scientific expertise is having the process skills associated with scientific inquiry. Expertise in science process skills is a basic and integral part of having effective science teaching skills. Such expertise obviously is not innate. One is not born with it. To become expert, one must...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Background, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries,...
In late February 1974 a decision was made by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare to implement the State commissions under Section 1202 of the Education Amendments of 1972 on certification by the governors that their State commissions qualified under the act. Three options for meeting criteria set forth in Section 1202 were: (1) creation of a new commission that would meet the criteria; (2) designation of an existing State agency or State commission that already meets the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Postsecondary...
Early warning systems combine multiple data points, translate them into predictive indicators that are based on research, and proactively communicate them to stakeholders, so they can examine which students are or are not on track for postsecondary success and intervene accordingly. Early warning reports provide the student-level information necessary to develop interventions that will help guide students back on track. States can use early warning data to work toward broader policy goals, such...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Management, Information Systems, At Risk Students, Student Records,...
The "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act has failed to provide funds and programs envisioned by President George W. Bush. The Act's key tenets promised improved student learning and professional development for teachers, but changes in national priorities have prevented congress from meeting state requests for assistance. Schools are struggling with federal mandates for Adequate Yearly Progress and highly qualified teachers, and the outlook for additional resources is dim.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Educational Change,...
This letter is submitted to comment on the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) proposed revisions to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's (ARRA) State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), as published in the September 23, 2011, Federal Register. Overall, the Data Quality Campaign believes the proposed changes strike a sensible balance: they maintain a commitment to advancing states' efforts to collect and use data for continuous improvement and richer accountability while making...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Stakeholders, Federal Aid, Accountability, Educational Finance, State Agencies,...
This guide is intended to stimulate professional reflection, dialogue and debate about mathematics and how to improve it. It draws together themes, features and characteristics of effective improvement in mathematics and descriptions of good practice. It offers a reference point for staff and teachers who are working together to improve mathematics education. This guide will also be useful for learners, parents and communities as they discuss how they can contribute to improving learning in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Achievement, Numeracy, Reflection, Mathematics Education, Professional...
Eleven recent reports related to excellence in education were examined, and their implications for vocational education were interpreted. Commonalities and differences among the studies were identified, and a selection of these was developed further with major emphases on teaching and learning. Topics were selected according to their immediacy and relevance for vocational education. The analyses of these studies highlighted the need for improvement of education in the public school system,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement, Educational...
Based on the experiences of six organizations, this manual aims to help assistance groups who work to change the way schools actually treat children. Assistance group members can include principal or teacher advisors, curriculum consultants, group process facilitators, dissemination or staff development specialists, parent trainers or organizers, and child advocates. The organizations studied were AFRAM Associates, Center for New Schools, Creative Teaching Workshop, Institute for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Educational Improvement,...
This monograph reports on a survey of middle level teacher preparation, based on the 1992 "Windows of Opportunity" study and on a modified Delphi process which identified a pool comprised of members of the Center for Early Adolescence and others. These educators were asked to rate the 33 recommendations from the "Windows of Opportunity" study for strengthening middle grades teacher preparation. The study focused on states that had "authentic" middle level teaching...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers, Field...
Components of the sociocultural, professional, and institutional contexts of teacher professional development in Spain are explored. Teacher training changes in Spain arise from the sociocultural context, with the increasing democratization of the nation since the 1980s, the recognition that areas and elements of society have been underserved, the links between Spain and the rest of Europe, and the requirements of the changing economy and the information society. Teachers need more support from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Democracy, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary...
The history of American early care and education shows the episodic nature of the emphasis accorded young children. In the absence of any single focus, the profession is faced with multiple problems, multiple rationales, and multiple responses occurring simultaneously. Several new approaches to early care reform have been undertaken by different states, all of which reflect efforts that are collaborative and bi-directional (looking backward and forward simultaneously), and emphasize systemic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational History,...
This document presents an updated version of a publication that originally appeared in print in 1970. The original document raised a number of issues and questions which, despite notable advances, are still problematic. In this revision, marginal notes up-date the original text with information concerning subsequent efforts to address raised issues such as the targeting of Federal funds and the emergence of the National Committee Arts for the Handicapped. The paper likens the status of the arts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Education, Core Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Improvement,...
This document details the progress made toward achieving the eight National Education Goals. The Goals 2000: Educate America Act marked its first year with school-improvement plans in 47 states and $85 million in the hands of state and local school districts. The publication contains: (1) a list of the National Education Goals; (2) a description of state and federal commitments in the new partnership; (3) a list of Goals 2000 subgrant awards; (4) a list of Goals 2000 state grant awards; (5) a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Block Grants, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary...
The future of gifted education is discussed in this symposium report, which contains the edited presentations of six national consultants and the ensuing discussion among the panelists. The consultants addressed the significance of a report of the U.S. Department of Education entitled "National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent." The commentaries focus on implications for gifted education in the nation and also in the state of Texas. Carolyn Callahan addressed the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Cognitive Ability, Core Curriculum, Cultural Differences,...
This book is based on the simple premise that good teaching and multicultural teaching are indistinguishable. This premise is based on the belief that multicultural education is not a fringe or radical movement designed to threaten the basic mainstream of educational thought and practice. The child is the meaning-maker and that the teacher's task is to build structures and create strategies that help all children gather meaning from their surroundings. The key questions that guide discussion...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism,...
This paper addresses multiple perspectives on the quality of early childhood care and education, including lessons learned from programs in various countries, the implications of these perspectives, and recommendations for the improvement of early childhood provision. It also examines the ideas expressed in the 1994 "Start Right" report on early childhood provision issued by the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in London, England. The paper reviews five...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Improvement,...
This collaborative action research project focused on the educational practice of a voluntary sector playgroup (preschool) in the United Kingdom. It utilized the Quality Evaluation and Development (QED) model to conduct an evaluation phase, action plan phase, development phase, and a reflection phase over the course of the 1994-95 school year. The evaluation phase was based on playgroup documentation, photographs, physical environment schedule, staff biographies, interviews, and child tracking...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Educational...
Examining the fragmentation and Americanization that pervades education in Micronesia, this paper explores the causes of the fragmentation, which represent a local attempt to modernize education, and the local belief in the superiority of American culture. The consequences of a fragmented world view have been confusion between educational aims and means, and goals and methods. The confusion about the concepts of education, culture, modernization, colonialism, autonomy and reform that exists in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Colonialism, Cultural Awareness, Culture Conflict, Developing...
This report provides a general overview of technical and vocational education in Pakistan, with information on the country's economy, climate, population, and culture. It summarizes the history and present practices of these types of education in the country and suggests measures to improve the quality of teachers and instructors. Sixteen appendixes present tables of information on vocational education programs in the country. Some of the information provided in this overview includes the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Educational...
Responding to a perceived need resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War, the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) at Maxwell Air Force Base (Alabama) revised its curriculum. Data for the descriptive study were gathered through interviews of the leadership of the school and questionnaires sent to the 75 instructors and 580 students. Responses were received from 44 instructors (59 percent) and 134 students (23 percent). The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Higher Education,...
This report describes progress made by Westchester Community College (WCC), in New York, on 23 strategic planning goals in the 1994-95 academic year. Information is provided on the following goals: (1) increase flexibility in operating the college; (2) increase flexibility in providing innovative academic and vocational programs; (3) upgrade equipment and technological support systems; (4) increase the involvement of community businesses and agencies; (5) keep up-to-date on local demographics;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Environment,...
This reference manual guides users in developing or amending school improvement plans for the 1993-96 Performance-Based Accountability Program (PBAP) of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The PBAP was established with the passage of the state's School Improvement and Accountability Act (1989). In addition to establishing a specific mission for the public schools, it provides incentives for school systems to move beyond state accreditation and to set higher standards for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement,...
In 1994-95, Chapter 1, a federally funded compensatory education program, provided funding to 33 elementary schools in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) (Texas) where there were high concentrations of low-income students. Service was provided through the following components: (1) Schoolwide Projects using resources for all students; (2) Non-Schoolwide Projects of supplementary reading and mathematics for eligible students; (3) full-day prekindergarten classes for low-income and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Gains, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education, Educational...
The 14 points of the Total Quality Management (TQM) model can be distilled into the following 5 main guiding principles: establish a moral purpose for the institution, use cooperative efforts instead of individual efforts, stop the use of inspection (testing) to improve students and teachers, continuously improve the system and its products, and implement employee education and self-improvement efforts. A study was conducted by DeKalb College (Georgia) to determine the agreement of faculty and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, College Planning, Community...
The Board of Regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada meets annually with campus administrators to articulate a systemwide vision and provide strategic directions. The eight strategic directions identified during the 1996 meeting were: (1) undergraduate access and growth, including an emphasis on educational quality, access and retention, and technological innovations; (2) research and graduate/professional education, including the promotion of both basic and applied...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Improvement,...
A recently completed landmark study of mathematics and science education in more than 40 countries gathered information that can help address questions about why students in one country do better than students in another. Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS) will be released beginning in the fall of 1996 through the spring of 1998. This brochure outlines what such international studies can help us learn, how this study was conducted, and what the United...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Core Curriculum, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign...
As an increasing number of schools undertake restructuring efforts, an instrument to measure teacher empowerment would be a useful took for researchers and evaluators. Such an instrument was used in a census survey of 10,544 teachers in 307 Venture Capital Schools in Ohio to obtain baseline measures of classroom teachers' participation in school restructuring. Thirteen dimensions of teacher empowerment were identified, and the School Participant Empowerment Scale (P. M. Short and J. S....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary...
The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching is working with the New York State Education Department to develop an assessment system that addresses both instructional and accountability concerns. The new system is intended to move the state to a system of performance assessments used in the service of ongoing teaching and learning. The principles that govern the assessment system redesign are: (1) curriculum, instruction, and assessment must be interrelated to support...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational...
This publication was designed to assist those who are establishing or redesigning programs aimed at providing better prepared middle grades teachers. Following the prologue, which provides the background of the project, the first chapter looks at teacher education; endorsement, licensure, certification, and accreditation; and collaboration to improve middle level teacher education. The second chapter examines professional forums, publications, and the National Middle School Association (NMSA)'s...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Guidelines, Higher Education,...
Two concurrent themes in recent educational reform efforts--teacher professionalism and parent participation--have not been easy to reconcile in practice. This study investigated the introduction of two controversial curriculum reforms in a small New England high school with an eye to the relationships that existed among parents and between parents and educators during the process. Using Eisner's work on educational criticism as a guide, the study used an alternative form of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, High Schools,...
The Jersey City (New Jersey) Public Schools became the first school district in the United States to be taken over and fully operated by a state agency on October 4, 1989. This paper presents findings of a study that examined the first 2 years during which the takeover was implemented, with a focus on the internal and external forces that affected implementation. Findings indicate that state intervention in local school districts has not developed spontaneously and in isolation at state levels....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary...
In 1995 Catholic educators established Selected Programs for Improving Catholic Education (SPICE). The program is a form of action research that identifies, validates, and systematically diffuses elementary and secondary school programs that work. This handbook is the first volume in a series of annual National Catholic Educational Association publications that disseminate the findings of SPICE. Following chapter 1, "The Call for Collaboration," by Joseph M. O'Keefe, S.J., chapter 2...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Educational Assessment,...
When curriculum content, instruction, and local and state assessments are aligned, they become powerful forces that contribute to student achievement. This framework presents a content and a process for developing curriculum that enables schools to realize Michigan's vision for K-12 education. The framework, which includes the resources needed to develop a standards-based curriculum, is organized into three tiers. Tier I begins with a complete list of core-curriculum content standards and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Curriculum Design, Educational Improvement, Educational...
This paper describes and analyzes the experiences of an inquiry group that was part of a National Science Foundation-funded elementary mathematics teacher enhancement project, the "Mathematics for Tomorrow Project." Inquiry group meetings focused on discussions and interpretations of data that teachers have brought from their classrooms. A 3-member team worked on developing the design for this inquiry group. In preparation for each session, the members visited each others classrooms...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Discussion Groups, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education,...
This publication describes an effort of the U.S. Department of Education to promote comprehensive educational reform by consolidating various elements and programs. The "cross-cutting" approach described considers the links among vocational-technical education, elementary and secondary education, postsecondary education, and workforce preparation programs; and involves coordinating planning and cooperation at the federal, state, and local levels. To convey how these cross-cutting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Education Work...
Partnerships between the South African state and nonstate sectors have become a strategic element in the implementation of education policy. Six policy texts, as exemplars of state support for partnerships, are presented. The notion of partnership is used in a theoretical way so as to suggest reasons for governmental support in the context of contemporary South African education and training. The "White Paper on Education and Training," which proclaimed the pivotal role of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational...
The first session of IT@EDU98 consisted of four papers and was chaired by Dong Thi Bich Thuy (University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). "Technology for Learning: The Present and Future in the United States" (Thomas Owens, Carolyn Cohen) focuses on how technology is changing learning, looks at the most promising opportunities as well as concerns, and describes implications for the use of technology in improving educational outcomes. "Computer Systems Technology...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Software, Distance Education, Educational Improvement, Educational...
This transcript contains the testimony of witnesses who testified or submitted written materials for hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the following topics: (1) labor market shortages in the information technology jobs from a national perspective and from the perspective of the Washington, DC area; (2) the education crisis that exists in the District of Columbia public schools and the problems of infrastructure as well as educational problems revealed by test...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demand Occupations, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational...
This report contends that the school reform movement--seemingly well-constructed from a distance--is failing to change in a significant way what and how students learn. This is because it lacks a solid foundation built from the ground up and an informed and active school community, including parents. Using case studies the report examines various reform strategies and presents ways to include parents in change. The key ways parents and families are engaged in school reform are: 1) pushing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement,...
This paper focuses on new ways of viewing the educational system by affecting change via small, initial adjustments. A number of fundamental ideas are presented that could be implemented by states, either individually or collectively, to change current educational systems into Information Age systems. Taking the cue from Chaos Theory, which states that all systems have a sensitive dependence upon initial conditions, the following small conceptual variations are suggested that might result in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Chaos Theory, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change,...
Six papers discuss the Louisiana School Effectiveness and Assistance Pilot (SEAP) program, an ongoing 3-year research project associated with a legislatively mandated school and district accountability program. In three phases, the project joins school indicators, school effectiveness, and school improvement initiatives. The following papers are included: (1) "Joining School Indicator, School Effectiveness, and School Improvement Research: The International Perspective" (David...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational...
Strategies that the corporate world can use to create education alliances with schools are described in this report. It is argued that businesses must develop education partnerships with the same degree of strategic thinking used to advance any business objective or new product. These strategies are aligned with three fundamental benchmarks for measuring student progress: students should be able to read well and independently by the end of third grade; students should study algebra by the end...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Responsibility, Corporate Support, Educational Improvement, Elementary...
The National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore's only teacher training institution, is working toward improved teaching of thinking skills within preservice teacher education. The teaching of thinking skills has always been one feature of NIE preservice programs, though a number of changes have recently been proposed, including integration of thinking skills into the content and delivery of courses and use of recent research and best practices to promote critical and creative thinking. A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary...
Australia's Cairns Consortium of Schools includes four state primary schools in Cairns, North Queensland. It supports provision of quality education characterized by improved student outcomes enhanced by improved teacher competencies. It is based on espoused values of mutual trust and respect. Principals use collaborative decision making processes to enact the Consortium vision of school-based reforms in teaching and learning. A key aim has been the development of teacher professionalism in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Change Strategies, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Educational...
This report discusses the administration of two instruments to faculty at 19 schools involved in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Quest project, which helps schools with educational reform efforts and challenges norms embedded in traditional school cultures. This study examined several constructs, including teacher efficacy, professional learning community, and organizational efficacy, exploring the characteristics of and interrelationships between Hord's "School Professional Staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This paper describes how the researcher revised an action research class for preservice Masters students within the larger context of school improvement. Analysis of students' action research projects revealed some ironic and unintended consequences of linking action research to school improvement. Analysis of the researcher's own pedagogical efforts, teacher research texts, and school district policies shed light on the findings. This study was itself an action research project that mirrored...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary...
This paper reports on a study that described the early stages of implementation of an external-reform model developed by a voluntary school-accrediting agency. The article centers on findings taken from 637 schools that participated in the program called Outcomes Accreditation (OA). The study examined the goals and expectations for improved student learning set by schools pursuing OA from 1987 through 1994. Three questions guided the research: What targets did schools select for improvement?...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational...
The practice of reforming failing schools through school reconstitution is one of the latest challenges for school system directors of evaluation and accountability. Failing schools are typically identified in terms of student test performance. However, evaluating the impact of reconstitution in terms of test score gains may not be an appropriate methodology for the short run. Instead, evaluators should consider multilevel evaluation models that account for those school input factors that were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Size, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Achievement,...
