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NASA's Science Activation Program: Achievements and Opportunities. A Consensus Study Report
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Honey, Margaret A., Ed.; Dibner, Kenne A., Ed.; Taylor, Tiffany E., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2020
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) agencies and plays an important role in the landscape of STEM education. In 2015, NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) created the Science Activation (SciAct) program to increase the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Educational Objectives, Scientific Literacy
Designing Coherent Science Education: Implications for Curriculum, Instruction, and Policy. Technology, Education--Connections (TEC) Series
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Kali, Yael, Ed.; Linn, Marcia, Ed.; Roseman, Jo Ellen, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This edited collection synthesizes current research on the most promising methods and models for designing coherent science instruction. Arising from the National Science Foundation-funded Delineating and Evaluating Coherent Instructional Designs for Education (DECIDE) project, this volume combines the insights of researchers from two Centers for…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Science Education, Instructional Design
Smart Money: Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals
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Adams, Jacob E., Jr., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
Education finance has emerged as one of the most pressing public policy issues of the new century. Americans spend more than $500 billion a year on elementary and secondary education, yet neither policy-makers nor practitioners seems to know how to align these resources with student learning goals. In fact, spending increases have outstripped…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Collective Bargaining
National Issues in Education: Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Jennings, John F., Ed. – 1995
The articles in this book examine the prominent elements of the Improving America's Schools Act, including the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). They describe how the large federal aid-to-education programs were brought into accord with the new agreement contained in Goals 2000. The book begins with a preface by…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Politics and the Professors. The Great Society in Perspective.
Aaron, Henry J. – 1978
By the early 1970's, political and scholarly tides had shifted away from the confidence and optimism of the 1960's. The initial broad consensus on the nation's problems and their solutions declined. An evolution is apparent in the attitudes and pronouncements by popular scholars on the role of federal government and its capacity to bring about…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Books, Civil Rights, Educational Objectives
Great Expectations for Small Schools: The Limitations of Federal Projects.
Firestone, William A. – 1980
This book describes the chain stretching from President Nixon's announcement of the Experimental Schools Program in 1969 to the midpoint of its implementation in the Butte-Angels Camp School District (pseudonym for a small mountainous district 400 miles from Denver) in 1976. The story is told in some detail to illustrate the complexities of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Conflict