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Leveraging Time For School Equity: Indicators To Measure More And Better Learning Time, Jaime L. L. Del Razo, Marisa Saunders, Michelle Renée, Ruth .. López, Kerri Ullucci
Leveraging Time For School Equity: Indicators To Measure More And Better Learning Time, Jaime L. L. Del Razo, Marisa Saunders, Michelle Renée, Ruth .. López, Kerri Ullucci
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Using standardized test scores as the main measure of educational achievement is not enough to capture the complexity of a student's or school's needs, challenges, and successes. "Leveraging Time for School Equity: Indicators to Measure More and Better Learning Time" presents a new set of comprehensive, rich, and meaningful measures of what matters to students, schools, and systems. The framework of twenty-four indicators emerged via extensive research and collaboration with school designers, community organizers, researchers, local funders, and other partners of the Ford Foundation's More and Better Learning Time (MBLT) initiative. The project aims to use learning time as a …
Two Sides Of The Megalopolis: Educating For Sustainable Citizenship, Alexander Pope, Timothy Patterson
Two Sides Of The Megalopolis: Educating For Sustainable Citizenship, Alexander Pope, Timothy Patterson
Education Faculty Publications
Despite widespread focus on literacy and math at the expense of other subjects, citizenship and environmental education have an important role in American public education. Citizenship and environmental education are broadly tasked with helping students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to shepherd the body politic and natural world, respectively, into the future. For educators and administrators concerned with instructional efficiency, educational farm visits offer one means of pairing these two approaches into a unified learning experience. This paper presents findings from a qualitative case study analysis of two such programs, incorporating interviews with and observations of visiting students, …