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Educational Experiences That Matter To Seniors Graduating From An Urban Early College High School, Mary Beth Schaefer, Lourdes M. Rivera
Educational Experiences That Matter To Seniors Graduating From An Urban Early College High School, Mary Beth Schaefer, Lourdes M. Rivera
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Growing Pains: The Effect Of Common Core State Standards On Perceived Teacher Effectiveness, Audrey Figueroa Murphy, Bruce A. Torff
Growing Pains: The Effect Of Common Core State Standards On Perceived Teacher Effectiveness, Audrey Figueroa Murphy, Bruce A. Torff
Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications
Survey research tested the hypothesis that teachers support less rigorous curriculum for English language learners (ELLs) than for general-education (GE) students. Participating teachers (n = 205) worked in urban schools with large populations of ELLs whose home language is Spanish. Eighty-seven were randomly assigned to respond about ELLs and 118 about GE students. Teachers rated descriptions of instructional activities that differed in demand for critical thinking (CT), a proxy for rigor of curriculum. In within-subjects analyses, teachers asked about ELLs rated low-CT activities over high-CT ones, but teachers asked about GE students produced no difference. In between-subjects analyses, teachers asked …