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Hernández, Laura E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Adams, Julie; Bradley, Kathryn – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Many educators have created successful innovative models but have had difficulty sustaining, re-creating, and scaling these models. Classrooms and schools characterized by student-centered learning practices typically deviate from the norms of transmission teaching and the many structures and procedures that David Tyack and Larry Cuban called the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
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Hernández, Laura E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
One of the mysteries of education reform is how leaders and educators can successfully instantiate, sustain, and spread student-centered pedagogical practices from a few schools to many others. Advocates for "deeper learning" grapple with this mystery as they seek to transform teaching and learning to prepare students to meet the demands…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., New York, NY. – 1973
Part 1 of this report outlines the concept of vouchers and the nature and objectives of the New Rochelle study. The more pertinent work tasks undertaken to accomplish the objectives are contained in the appendix. The authors describe their position regarding the voucher plan, highlight its major elements, and outline the steps the district should…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers
Kruppa, J. Russell; And Others – 1973
This report describes a project the assignment of which was (1) to clarify the needs for baccalaureate programs through which industrial education teachers could be prepared to teach handicapped and disadvantaged children and (2) to develop a model from which appropriate curricula could be developed. In chapter 1 the project background is…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Handicapped Students
Walther, Regis H. – 1975
The manual is designed to provide guidelines for developing basic educational components in manpower programs for youth from poverty backgrounds who dropped out of school before graduating from high school and whose educational deficiencies reduce their employability or their ability to profit from training programs. It discusses relevant…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Educational Diagnosis
Weinbaum, Sandy; Wirmusky, Frank – 1994
The 14 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)-funded youth employment programs to which the Academy for Educational Development (AED) has delivered technical assistance for the past 5 years illustrate several important conditions for effective programming and "best practices" in the field of youth employment and training. Four of the JTPA…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change