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Diplomas for Learning, not Seat Time: The Impacts of New York Regents Examinations
[Excerpt] New York State has been administering curriculum-based Regents Examinations to high school students ever since June 1878. As Sherman Tinkelman, Assistant Commissioner for Examinations and Scholarships described in a 1966 report: The Regents examinations are closely related to the curriculum in New York State. They are, as you can see, inseparably intertwined. One supports and reinforces the other.... These instruments presuppose and define standards.... They are a strong supervisory and instructional tool-- and deliberately so. They are effective in stimulating good teaching and good learning practices (Tinkelman, 1966 p. 12)
Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy
Outlines fifteen key elements that educators can use to develop an effective adolescent literacy intervention program. Focuses on elements of interventions that are most promising for students that struggle with reading and writing after third grade
A survey of the remedial reading programs in the elementary schools of Massachusetts
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WWW.raising achievement: internet research resources on raising achievement in post-compulsory education; the agency comments
This report is designed to help practitioners and researchers find and use internet-based resources that deal with raising achievement. It contains a guide to useful research sources and organisations accessible via the internet; an introductory synthesis of research findings drawn from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) and suggestions for applying American research findings to raising achievement in the UK
Non-college-bound English learners as the underserved third: How students graduate from high school without being college- or career-ready
Not all high school students go to college. Yet, because there is currently such a dominant
emphasis on “college for all,” preparing non-college-bound students for career-readiness has
received short shrift. This issue is particularly important for English learners (ELs) because
close to half of high school ELs do not advance to postsecondary education. Through a
longitudinal ethnography of two underperforming, non-college-bound ELs, I examine how and
why a relatively well-resourced school allowed these students to graduate without college- and
career-readiness. I argue that although there were substantial structural inequalities that led to
the under-education of the two ELs, educators at the school were largely unaware of such
barriers and attributed the ELs’ underachievement to the students’ own deficits. I counter this
institutional deficit orientation with alternative stories of student assets that illuminate the
substantial strengths and talents that the focal ELs possessed, which, if recognized and integrated
into their education, could have led to career-readiness.Accepted manuscrip
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The Hidden College: Noncredit Education in the United States
Provides an overview of the growing enrollment in noncredit programs, and outlines the need to incorporate them better with credit-bearing courses to offer new options for learning, as well as to include them in discussions about higher education policy
The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills
Shares insights from the Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges project on how teachers' systematic and collaborative analyses of new approaches and practices foster innovation and improvement in basic English and math instruction
The Library and Remedial/Developmental/Compensatory Education: A Case Study
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Shifting Gears: State Innovation to Advance Workers and the Economy in the Midwest
Outlines five states' policy actions to expand access to postsecondary credentials and careers and innovations implemented through Joyce's initiative, including combining basic skills content with workforce readiness, support services, and specialization
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