Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Policy Regimes
Author: Tyler S. BransonPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809338467
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"This book looks at the rise of accountability as a policy paradigm and offers insights that allow for policy discussions in more meaningful ways and enables better representations of disciplinary knowledge"--
Ohio Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated
Author: OhioOhio's ... Annual Progress Report on Education
Author: State Education Funding Policies and School-to-work Transitions for Dropouts and At-risk Students
Author: Jana ZinserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alternative education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Products Catalog
Author: National Center for Research in Vocational Education (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Vocational education
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Career Programming: Linking Youth to the World of Work
Author: Kathryn HynesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111844082X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Across education, out-of-school-time programming, and workforce development, researchers and practitioners are seeking ways to bolster the career readiness of our nation’s youth, particularly low-income youth. This issue brings together information from a variety of disciplines and fields to help researchers, practitioners, and policymakers understand what we know and need to learn to provide youth with effective, engaging career-related programming. The articles highlight key findings about how youth learn about careers and develop a vocational identity, whether adolescent employment is beneficial for youth, and how to align our various systems to promote positive youth development. Models of career programming from education, afterschool, and workforce development are highlighted, as are strategies for collaborating with businesses. The volume emphasizes the practical implications of research findings, keeping the focus on how to develop evidence-based practices to support career development for youth. This is the 134th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.
Learning in the Fast Lane
Author: Chester E. Finn, Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"More than three million high-school students take five million Advanced Placement exams each May, yet remarkably little is known about how this sixty-year-old, privately-run program, has become one of U.S. education's greatest successes. From its mid-century origin as a tiny option for privileged kids from posh schools, AP has also emerged as a booster rocket into college for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youngsters. It challenges smart kids, affects school ratings, affords rewarding classroom challenges to great teachers, tunes up entire schools, and draws vast support from philanthropists, education reformers and policymakers. AP stands as America's foremost source of college-level academics for high school pupils. Praised for its rigor and integrity, more than 22,000 schools now offer some-or many-of its thirty-eight subjects, from Latin to calculus, art to computer science. But challenges abound today, as AP faces stiffening competition (especially dual credit), curriculum wars, charges of elitism, misgivings by elite schools and universities, and the arduous work of infusing rigor into schools that lack it and academic success into young people unaccustomed to it. In today's polarized climate, can Advanced Placement maintain its lofty standards and overcome the hostility, politics and despair that have sunk so many other bold education ventures? Advanced Placement: The Unsung Success Story of American Education is a unique account-richly documented and thoroughly readable-of the AP program in all its strengths and travails, written by two of America's most respected education analysts"--
The Neglected Majority
Author: Dale ParnellPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Community College Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Designed for high school and community college leaders, this book examines a number of issues related to student success, learning continuity, individual differences, and the lack of community college involvement in secondary education; and offers a proposal for increasing high school/community college program cooperation and coordination. After chapter I examines some dilemmas faced by educators in defining excellence, chapter II looks at the effects of technological, educational, and socio-economic tensions on educational excellence. Chapter III highlights such barriers to excellence as unfocused learning, loss of continuity in learning, failure to accommodate individual differences, and unfounded images about learning. Chapter IV offers a model of careers education as a learner-centered bridge between subject-matter disciplines and the competencies required by modern life. In chapter V, the "Opportunity with Excellence" philosophy is proposed as the basis for the community college mission, and a policy statement for the associate degree is presented as developed by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. After chapter VI underscores the importance of cooperation and coordination between the high school and the community college, offering examples of successful efforts around the nation, chapter VII delineates the assumptions and characteristics of a 2 + 2 Tech-Prep/Associate Degree Program, which blends the liberal and practical arts in a coordinated program that begins during the last 2 years of high school and culminates with an associate degree. Finally, suggestions for cultivating excellence are presented. (LAL)