Technology Applications for Learning part of the Education Reform Network

teaching social studies

• A new wave of evidence
  Many policymakers, administrators, and funders ask for evidence that parents' involvement helps student achievements, including test scores. This report provides some useful answers.
• A professional development school partnership: Conflict and collaboration
  The Professional Develpment School (PDS) is one of the most prominent, compelling, and recent models of teacher education reform. For decades efforts have been made to reform the U.S.
• Adherence to mathematics professional standards and instructional design criteria for problem-solving in mathematics.
  The authors evaluated five third grade math text (Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley and Silver Burdett & Ginn) to measure alignment to NCTM standards. Results presented in a detailed table across NCTM standards showed that only problem solving standard was evident across all five text books.
• Beyond islands of excellence: What districts can do to improve instruction and achievement in all schools.
  Outlines lessons from five districts that were selected based on their ability to exhibit at least three years of improvement in student achievement in mathematics and/or reading across multiple grades and across all races and ethnicities.
• Multilingual Proficiency in Fiji Primary Schools
  Determined language proficiency among multilingual Indo-Fijian primary school children who have the languages, Fiji-Hindi, Standard Hindi, Urdu, English, Fijian, and Fijian English in their speech repertoire. Identifies the variables that affect multilingual proficiency in this group and determines whether classroom practice reflects educational policy.
• Report card models that support communication and differentiation of instruction.
  Focuses on the need for teachers to consider the grading of students with special needs in the context of report card grading policies for all students in the U.S.