Author: Kenneth SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability grouping in education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Effects of Ability Grouping on Students in the Elementary School
Author: Kenneth SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability grouping in education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Ability Grouping in Education
Author: Judith IresonPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761972099
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Ability Grouping in Education provides an overview of ability grouping in education. The authors consider selective schooling and ability grouping within schools, such as streaming, banding setting and within-class grouping.
Detracking for Excellence and Equity
Author: Carol Corbett BurrisPublisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416607757
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Proven strategies for launching, sustaining, and monitoring a reform that will offer all students access to the best curriculum, raise achievement across the board, and close the achievement gap.
Keeping Track
Author: Jeannie OakesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300174069
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Selected by the American School Board Journal as a “Must Read” book when it was first published and named one of 60 “Books of the Century” by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how tracking—the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability—reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition, Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and a new final chapter in which she discusses the “tracking wars” of the last twenty years, wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. From reviews of the first edition:“Should be read by anyone who wishes to improve schools.”—M. Donald Thomas, American School Board Journal“[This] engaging [book] . . . has had an influence on educational thought and policy that few works of social science ever achieve.”—Tom Loveless in The Tracking Wars“Should be read by teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents.”—Georgia Lewis, Childhood Education“Valuable. . . . No one interested in the topic can afford not to attend to it.”—Kenneth A. Strike, Teachers College Record
How Schools Work
Author: Rebecca BarrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780226038124
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
As budgets tighten for school districts, a sound understanding of just how teaching and administration translate into student learning becomes increasingly important. Rebecca Barr, a researcher of classroom instruction and reading skill development, and Robert Dreeben, a sociologist of education who analyzes the structure of organizations, combine their expertise to explore the social organization of schools and classrooms, the division of labor, and the allocation of key resources. Viewing schools as part of a social organization with a hierarchy of levels—district, school, classroom, instructional group, and students—avoids the common pitfalls of lumping together any and all possible influences on student learning without regard to the actual processes of the classroom. Barr and Dreeben systematically explain how instructional groups originate, form, and change over time. Focusing on first grade reading instruction, their study shows that individual reading aptitude actually has little direct relation to group reading achievement and virtually none to the coverage of reading materials once the mean aptitude of groups is taken into consideration. Individual aptitude, they argue, is rather the basis on which teachers form reading groups that are given different instructional treatment. It is these differences in group treatment, they contend, that explain substantial differences in learning curricular material.
Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Elementary Schools
Author: Robert E. SlavinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability grouping in education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Guided Reading
Author: Irene C. FountasPublisher: Heinemann Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents.
Response to Intervention
Author: Douglas FuchsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780872076228
Category : Learning disabled children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leading experts in literacy and special education describe a three-tier approach that begins with effective instruction for all children, moves to preventive tutoring through a variety of approaches, and concludes with a reformed conceptualization of special education.
The Effects of Ability Grouping on Academic Gains of Rural Elementary School Students
Author: Shannon Kelly BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability grouping in education
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Nongraded Elementary School (Revised Edition)
Author: John I. GoodladPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807776408
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Since its first publication in 1959, The Nongraded Elementary School has become a classic in school reform literature. This reissue includes a retrospective introduction on what happened to nongraded alternatives in the aftermath of “Sputnik” educational reforms, what is occurring amid the current resurgence of school reform, and what the prospects are for the future. The value of this book lies in its still contemporary theoretical underpinnings for the nongraded school. The book’s treatment of the issue of promotion versus non-promotion is of particular interest in the current debate on school reform.