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Kim Luttgen; Kevin Huang; Eunice Chow; Shuangting Yang; Linlin Li – Grantee Submission, 2024
Rural students often face challenges in receiving high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Yet without meaningful STEM educational opportunities, rural students might not develop the knowledge and skills needed to compete in a technology-driven workforce. The Learning by Making program (LbyM), an innovative…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, STEM Education, Educational Innovation, Achievement Gap
Ritterband, Vicki; Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Lindsay Unified School District (California) exemplifies the promise of competency education (or performance-based education, as it is called locally). Since beginning its transition to the model in 2009, discipline problems have sharply dropped, the school climate has dramatically improved (as measured by the California Healthy Kids Survey), and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Implementation, Fidelity, Models
Hill, Laura E. – Public Policy Institute of California, 2012
English Learner (EL) students in California's schools are numerous and diverse, and they lag behind their native-English-speaking peers. Closing the achievement gap for EL students has been a long-standing goal for California educators, and there are some signs of success. Now that EL funding and curriculum issues are receiving a fresh level of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Achievement Gap, Educational Policy, Academic Standards