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4 Steps To Standards Integration, Vanessa Greenwood Nov 2006

4 Steps To Standards Integration, Vanessa Greenwood

School of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

It is too easy for teachers and library media specialists to entangle themselves in the multiple strands of standards: State core curriculum content standards, National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS.S), National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS.T), and the Information Literacy Standards (ALA). To prevent teachers from drowning professionally in this vast sea of accountability, the author presents an exercise that untangles the standards and helps teachers to align their teaching style with immediately accessible instructional technologies. This exercise is a useful anchor for inservice teachers and media specialists to experiment using new media technologies to support existing curriculum …


Women's Changing Attitudes Toward Divorce, 1974–2002: Evidence For An Educational Crossover, Steven P. Martin, Sangeeta Parashar Jan 2006

Women's Changing Attitudes Toward Divorce, 1974–2002: Evidence For An Educational Crossover, Steven P. Martin, Sangeeta Parashar

Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article examines trends in divorce attitudes of young adult women in the United States by educational attainment from 1974 to 2002. Women with 4‐year college degrees, who previously had the most permissive attitudes toward divorce, have become more restrictive in their attitudes toward divorce than high school graduates and women with some college education, whereas women with no high school diplomas have increasingly permissive attitudes toward divorce. We examine this educational crossover in divorce attitudes in the context of variables correlated with women's educational attainment, including family attitudes and religion, income and occupational prestige, and family structure. We conclude …


Volume 18, No. 1 Jan 2006

Volume 18, No. 1

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Bøyum, Steiner. “The Legitimacy of Critical Thinking: Political Liberalism and Compulsory Education.” 31-­39.

Brubaker, Nathan. “Why Do People Go to School?” 47­-50.

Carter, Fern­-Chantele. “Developing Communities of Inquiry in the Secondary School Creative Arts Classroom.” 40­-46.

Laverty, Megan. “Kate Gordon Moore (1878­-1963): A Precursor to Philosophy for Children.” 4­-14.

Matthews, Gareth B. “Review of M.D. Usher, Wise Guy: The Life and Philosophy of Socrates.” 3.

Schertz, Matthew. “Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Creation of the Relational Subject: A New Vision of Empathy Warrants Critical Reflection on the Culture and Practice of Schooling.” 22-­30.

Schleifer, Michael & Mriam McCormick. “Are We Responsible …


Volume 18, No. 2 Jan 2006

Volume 18, No. 2

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Colvin, Deborah K. “Through Marush’s Eyes.” 4-­7.

de La Garza, Teresa. “Education for Justice.” 12-18.

Echeverra, Eugenio. “Teacher Education in Philosophy for Children.” 19-­23.

Hashim, Rosnani & Moomala Othman. “Critical Thinking and Reading Skills: A Comparative Study of the Reader Response and the Philosophy for Children Approaches.” 26­-34.

Hinton, Lynne. “Being Me: Notes from the Field.” 48-­50.

Hurtado, Angelica Adam. “Philosophy for Children in Teaching.” 8­-12.

Roemischer, John. “Teaching Social Studies Through Dialogue and Dialectic: Restoring the Practice of Philosophical Inquiry.” 35-42.

Sharp, Ann Margaret. “The Face of the Other.” 43­47. Shea, Peter. “Review of Richard Wilbur, The Pig in …