Documents tagged with student achievement

A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation

In the 20th century, the United States was the world leader in education—the first country to achieve universal secondary education and the first to expand higher education beyond the elite class. ...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 4 days ago
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Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition

"In 2001, Classroom Instruction That Works inspired more than a million teachers to refine their approach to teaching by asking and answering these questions: What works in education? How do we kno...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 01 / 13 / 2012
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Ten Myths About Education

Ten Myths About Education in the U.S. and What It Will Take to Fix Our Schools
  • CtrEdEcon published this 12 / 06 / 2011
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China Education Report (2005)

This preliminary report describes the problems and innovations within the Chinese education system with a focus on China’s rapidly expanding economy, cultural attitudes surrounding education in Chi...
  • CtrEdEcon published this 11 / 07 / 2011
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Supporting the Whole Child

This e-book, a collection of articles from Educational Leadership and other ASCD publications explores what it means to “support the whole child.” In these articles, authors ponder the various mean...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 08 / 11 / 2011
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Summarization in Any Subject

A national board-certified teacher shares time-tested ways to make this underused but highly effective instructional strategy part of every teacher’s repertoire.
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  • ASCD Publications published this 08 / 11 / 2011
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Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time

A co-author of Classroom Instruction That Works presents a synthesis of best practices for instruction and shows teachers how making the right adjustments in curriculum, planning and delivery, asse...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 08 / 11 / 2011
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Understanding Common Core State Standards

This essential guide to the Common Core State Standards provides an overview of the new standards in English language arts and mathematics, explains how everyone in your school community can make t...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 07 / 27 / 2011
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Guide to Effective Instruction in Reading: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Excellent resource! This guide has two parts. Part 1, “Improving Student Achievement in Reading”, will be of interest to all educators who are collaborating to implement the Early Reading Strateg...
  • woodstockwoody published this 07 / 17 / 2011
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How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom

"In this book, William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell provide a practical map to navigate some of today’s most complicated instructional challenges: How do you help all students succeed when every ...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 07 / 15 / 2011
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The Multidimensional Leadership Selection System: An Effective Adminstrative System for Educational

A guide for schools and districts in the selection of effective candidates for school leadership positions. Provides a research-based selection system that yields solid returns--productive administ...
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  • Creative Concern Publications published this 06 / 16 / 2011
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Charter Schools Against the Odds, by Paul T. Hill

Charter schools—born into a hostile environment—are publicly funded schools operated by independent groups under contract with government agencies that provide a valuable alternative to traditional...
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  • HooverInstitution published this 06 / 03 / 2011
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Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners

"Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners responds to growing concerns about a crisis in boys’ academic achievement. Kathleen Palmer Clevel...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 05 / 10 / 2011
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Dimensions of Learning Trainer's Manual, 2nd ed.

"The premise of Dimensions of Learning an instructional framework founded on the best of what researchers and theorists know about learning is that five types, or dimensions, of thinking are esse...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 05 / 10 / 2011
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TEACHER INCENTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  • 4LAKids published this 03 / 31 / 2011
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Creating Dynamic Schools Though Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration

Learn what steps you can take to develop a collegial culture that will improve morale, expand professional opportunities, and raise student achievement.
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  • ASCD Publications published this 08 / 31 / 2010
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Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools: 8 Steps from Analysis to Action

This book shows school leaders how they can infuse their daily practice with an examination of the actions they take to improve their schools. It identifies eight steps that inform the school impro...
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  • EyeOnEducation published this 03 / 23 / 2010
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What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action

Schools can and do affect student achievement, and this book recommends specific-and attainable-action steps to implement successful strategies culled from 35 years of research data.
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  • ASCD Publications published this 02 / 08 / 2010
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Supervision for Learning: A Performance-Based Approach to Teacher Development and School Improvement

Integrate teacher evaluation, strategic professional development, and school improvement planning with this data-driven, standards-linked approach to supervision that builds educators' analytical ...
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  • ASCD Publications published this 01 / 05 / 2010
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Paying Teachers for Performance: November 2009

An overview of the need for teacher compensation reform, with examples of reforms in Colorado and across the nation.
  • Education Policy Center published this 11 / 18 / 2009
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