Maximizing Educational Opportunities for English Learners Through Amplified Curriculum

TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis and Measuring Educational Opportunities

Following the long tradition of attending to the importance of educational opportunity in the understanding of educational progress, 1995 TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) was designed to capture country’s curriculum standards as intended curricula and their textbooks as potential implemented curricula. The vision of education opportunity was that of the IEA Tri-Partite Model of Cur...

Equalising opportunities in health through educational policy

Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemer’s model of equality of opportunity. We...

Effective instruction for English learners.

The fastest-growing student population in U.S. schools today is children of immigrants, half of whom do not speak English fluently and are thus labeled English learners. Although the federal government requires school districts to provide services to English learners, it offers states no policies to follow in identifying, assessing, placing, or instructing them. Margarita Calderón, Robert Slavi...

Opportunities for practice and educational transformations through unlikely partnerships.

Maximizing organ donation opportunities through donation after cardiac death.

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 2, APRIL 2006 101 John Edwards is the clinical administrator for Gift of Life Donor Program in Philadelphia, Pa, overseeing all clinical aspects of organ and tissue recovery, and a faculty member for the Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia, providing training and mentoring for healthcare organizations nationally. Patti Mulvania oversees the clinical education prog...