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Bickerstaff, Susan; Lontz, Barbara; Cormier, Maria Scott; Xu, Di – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter describes a promising new approach to teaching developmental arithmetic and prealgebra, and presents research findings that demonstrate how a faculty support network helped instructors adopt new teaching strategies and gain confidence in teaching the reformed course.
Descriptors: Success, Arithmetic, Community Colleges, Program Descriptions
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Banerji, Rukmini; Chavan, Madhav – Journal of Educational Change, 2016
Pratham's "Read India" initiative is a large-scale intervention to improve basic learning and arithmetic among children in primary school. It was started almost 10 years ago and has evolved considerably over time. Currently, this initiative uses two strategies. The first strategy is to work directly with village communities and local…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Literacy Education, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention