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Direct linkShanahan, Timothy – Educational Leadership, 2013
Does the Common Core State Standards' focus on informational text mean that teachers must teach fiberglass installation manuals and the minutes of National Reserve Board meetings? No, responds literacy expert Timothy Shanahan. "I've pored over the lists of exemplary texts suggested by the standards, and I've not been able to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Language Arts
Rajab, Adaylah; Wright, Nigel – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
Using interview data, this paper explores issues which head teachers and teachers in a sample of Saudi kindergartens in Makkah face in implementing an adapted curriculum and pedagogy which appear to conflict with the local culture. The Saudi Self-Learning Curriculum for Kindergarten has been developed from Western models of child-centered…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Childrens Rights, Kindergarten, Young Children
Download full textBrewer, T. Jameson; Kretchmar, Kerry; Sondel, Beth; Ishmael, Sarah; Manfra, Meghan McGlinn – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
Teach For America (TFA) began in 1990 as an organization purportedly interested in working towards ameliorating a national teacher shortage by sending its corps members into urban and rural schools. In the decades that followed, especially during and immediately following a nationwide onslaught of teacher layoffs instigated by the 2008 Great…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Selection, Criticism, Teacher Shortage
Turner, Annie; Thompson, Amanda – Statistics Canada, 2015
School mobility--changing schools--can have a negative effect on children's academic success. Research in the general population has shown that changing schools is associated with difficulties in school (Mehana and Reynolds, 2004; Mantzicopoulos and Knutson, 2000; Demie, 2002; Alexander, Entwistle and Dauber, 1996). A change of schools may affect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Student Mobility, Outcomes of Education
Norris, Jeff L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Urban development, the pinnacle of human land use, has drastic effects on native ecosystems and the species they contain. For the first time in recorded history there are more people living in cities than in the rural areas surrounding them. Furthermore, the global rate of urbanization continues increasing; raising serious concerns for earth's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urbanization, Parks, Conservation (Environment)
Into the Forest: The Evolution of a Conservation Education Program at Kalinzu Forest Reserve, Uganda
Kuhar, Christopher W.; Bettinger, Tammie L.; Lehnhardt, Kathy; Townsend, Stephanie; Cox, Debbie – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2007
While there are many conservation programs in east Africa, relatively little is invested in environmental education or capacity building within the community. With this in mind, the National Forest Authority of Uganda, the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports, Disney's Animal Kingdom[R], and the Jane Goodall Institute--Uganda entered into a…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources
