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Introduction: Reframing The Inequality Debate Toward Opportunity And Mobility, Norman Eng, Allan Ornstein Dec 2016

Introduction: Reframing The Inequality Debate Toward Opportunity And Mobility, Norman Eng, Allan Ornstein

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Education Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes Through Framing, Norman Eng Dec 2016

Education Inequality: Broadening Public Attitudes Through Framing, Norman Eng

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Research over the last 50 years have been remarkably consistent when it comes to addressing education inequality: background factors like family and socioeconomics matter to school success. Yet policies remain narrowly focused on school-based reforms like testing, standards, and charter schools due in large part to America’s limited understanding of education and inequality. I argue that scholars, as the experts, are ultimately responsible for changing how policymakers and the public think about these issues—a duty they have yet to embrace. In this connection, the use of framing can help education researchers broaden attitudes and stimulate political will. Drawing mainly from …


Linear Relationships (Algebra) (8th-9th Grade), Melanie R. Webb, Nicole D. Legrone Jun 2016

Linear Relationships (Algebra) (8th-9th Grade), Melanie R. Webb, Nicole D. Legrone

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Students will combine all linear relationships and writing equations to perform a task involving scatter plots and line of fit with and without technology. Includes lessons on writing equations and inequalities in context given slope and a point or two points. Students will choose a data set to analyze and determine the context in which it exists. The student will make a scatter plot and determine a line of fit three ways: pencil and paper, on the computer, with a calculator. The student will analyze and compare their results. The student will justify their results and write a story within …