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Four ethnographic studies examining the impacts of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act on minority youth are analyzed. The studies explore differences in teacher pedagogy, curricular instruction, cultures, communities, and political influences, and their analysis addresses immediate problems of practice and also broad theoretical questions concerning NCLB through a qualitative approach.

Abstract This paper discusses a self assessment activity in a methods course for preservice English teachers. Students are asked to strategize responses to writing assignments of their own design and [...]

Interest in student coursework, especially in mathematics and science, has been rapidly increasing over the past decade, because the emerging global economy requires new generations to become more knowledgeable in […]

Many curriculum guidelines and articles have stressed information skills instruction as an indispensible subject to attain a new curriculum goal. However, understanding of the importance of the formal instruction at the elementary school level is still incomplete. The purpose of presenting this paper is to address the significance of formal instruction for information skills at the elementary school level. To attain this goal, this paper has attempted to make a theoretical framework, and then, has examined through experiment whether the assumption was proved. The investigation has proved that formal instruction at the elementary school level is effective for acquiring information skills., Introduction The New Concept of Curriculum Traditionally, the goal of curriculum has been to transmit knowledge and facts from teacher to students, where students were expected to learn facts as [...]

Throughout the 1980s, accountability was watch-word of public policy. Health, social service, and educational programs are--more than at any time in history--being required to demonstrate their effectiveness. The Teenage Health [...]

Introduction The employers of library and information science graduates are many and varied in nature. Designing an LIS educational program for diversified needs and expectations of the employers is very [...]

An activity that a teacher can undertake within the mathematics classes of various levels to help the students to understand the closure properties as they relate to various mathematical systems is discussed. This not only helps the students to review familiar sets and operations but also the teachers as they learn practical tips on teaching topics related to the secondary school mathematics curriculum.

Medical schools in the United Kingdom will be forced to drop their entry standards if they want to cope with declining applications and increasing places, according to a report in [...]

Further research is needed before the BMA WILL endorse the shortening of medical degree courses. In a new report, the association explores the provision of shortened degree courses and concludes [...]

ALTHOUGH the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was never intended to measure the quality of education and was never linked to any curriculum, there has been increased interest of [...]

The authors contend that, to be effective, professional development should address three dimensions of school capacity ' teachers' knowledge, skills, and dispositions; the strength of the schoolwide professional community; and [...]