Covers 56 standards covering 7 academic contents areas: visual & performing arts, comprehensive health & physical educ., language arts literacy, math., science, social studies, & world languages. They are not meant to serve as a statewide curriculum guide. They define the results expected, but do not limit strategies for how to ensure that students achieve these expectations. Insistence on a core curriculum means that every student will be involved in experiences addressing all of the expectations of all of the content standards.
The National Education Goals (NEG) Panel has assembled information regarding standards implementation, especially in the areas of math and science. The papers in this volume describe how states have recently implemented their education standards, how textbooks and teaching could help students reach standards, and the resources and advice available from the professional organizations that developed national standards in math and science. Sections include: current state policy on standards; special issues relating to teachers and textbooks; special issues relating to math and science; and NEG Panel policy related to standards.
This book is a guide for the creation of “Smart Schools. ” Through the use of the “Education Instructional Coaching Model, American students can display the highest levels of academic achievement. This model is based upon a set of core beliefs that include: • the major goal of educators is to inspire students to become critical thinkers and independent learners; • educators must create environments of small learning communities where a major portion of instruction is devoted to problem solving; • teachers must design student directed instruction; • educational reform is comprehensive and involves every member of the educational community; • instructional coaching which requires mutual respect between a coach and teacher is the corner stone for improving classroom instruction.
The year 2010 was a landmark in the history of digital libraries because for the first time this year the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) were held together at the Gold Coast in Australia. The combined conferences provided an - portunity for digital library researchers, academics and professionals from across the globe to meet in a single forum to disseminate, discuss, and share their valuable - search. For the past 12 years ICADL has remained a major forum for digital library - searchers and professionals from around the world in general, and for the Asia-Pacific region in particular. Research and development activities in digital libraries that began almost two decades ago have gone through some distinct phases: digital libraries have evolved from mere networked collections of digital objects to robust information services designed for both specific applications as well as global audiences. Con- quently, researchers have focused on various challenges ranging from technical issues such as networked infrastructure and the creation and management of complex digital objects to user-centric issues such as usability, impact and evaluation. Simulta- ously, digital preservation has emerged and remained as a major area of influence for digital library research. Research in digital libraries has also been influenced by s- eral socio-economic and legal issues such as the digital divide, intellectual property, sustainability and business models, and so on. More recently, Web 2.
These State Profiles are a brief snapshot of School-to-Work in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as of October 1, 1998. The Profiles were complied by the National School-to-Work Office from information supplied by the states and from investments data in the National Office. They include a summary of overall activities, and where appropriate, innovative program initiatives and key partners. Additional copies of the Profiles are available from the National School-to-Work Learning Center (1-800-251-7236) or on-line at www.stw.ed.gov.
