Discusses the life and times of Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped slavery and became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century.
The primary purpose of this monograph is to facilitate an initial literature review relevant to our study granted by the National Science Foundation - "How Reform Works: An Evaluative Study of NSF's Urban Systemic Initiatives." The three year evaluative study explores the impact of USI programs on student achievement and the learning infrastructure in urban school districts, and will develop an inferential causal model linking the SI drivers and other key elements. The study design includes collection and analysis of all 21 USI sites' quantitative and qualitative data, site visits four districts in each cohort, and the Survey of Enacted Curriculum. This monograph provides a basis for the rubric design of the evaluative study- See Appendix A: Evaluative Study Abstract.This review of selected literature examines the National Science Foundation's standards-based systemic reform theory in the context of research reported by science, mathematics, and urban education policy experts. This review is specifically concerned with viewing evidence of relationships among identified change variables that are associated with fostering high achievement in mathematics and science of urban and underrepresented minority students. The authors indicate that four categories of variables are useful in studying student achievement: demographic information, test data, teacher development, and mathematics and science curriculum. The review revealed little researcher agreement regarding variable relationships that might predict a chain of influence from policy to classroom practice and finally to student performance.
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