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Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

¬øExito en California? :a validity critique of language program evaluations and analysis of English learner test scores / Marilyn S. Thompson, Kristen E. DiCerbo, Kate Mahoney, [and] Jeff MacSwan.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/06 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Teaching and ethical issues in indicator systems : doing things right and doing wrong things / Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon [and] Peter Tymms.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

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Power-discourse relationship in a Croatian higher education setting / Renata Fox [and] John Fox.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/03 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

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Socratic pedagogy, race, and power : from people to propositions / Peter Boghossian.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

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Testing and diversity in postsecondary education : the case of California / Daniel Koretz, Michael Russell, Chingwei David Shin, Cathy Horn, [and] Kelly Shasby.

0502-3 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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Matching Effective Methods Of Teaching To Modes Of Learning: A Presentation For Educators Of American Indian Students, Lynn Marie Gellerson

All Graduate Projects

Reading is a skill necessary for social, academic, and economic achievement in our society. Research shows that minority children, such as American Indians, often struggle to become successful readers. It is necessary to understand causes that may contribute to the difficulties that American Indians have with effective acquisition of literacy skills. This presentation for educators of American Indian students will present information that will increase educators' knowledge of American Indian culture, and the culture of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. In addition, the effect culture has on an individual, the classroom, and reading instruction will be …

Preservice Teachers' Perceptions Of Cultural Competency, N. Diana Ross

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The purpose of this study was to examine preservice teachers' perceptions of cultural competence during the student teaching experience as the result of participating in a diversity and poverty simulation. The results of this study were consistent with present research on developing cultural competencies and the use of simulations in teacher preparation programs. This qualitative research utilized data gathered through interviews with preservice teachers from a private university, citations from expert sources, and insights from the researcher's twenty-five years of teaching experience. The voices of the preservice teachers in this study evidenced increased cultural awareness as a result of their …

What Are Teachers Doing To Accommodate For Special Needs Students In The Classroom?, Brenda Stevens, Caroline Everington, Stacy Kozar-Kocsis

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

Elementary teachers (N=42) from a district implementing inclusive practice were surveyed to determine: a) if the frequency of curricular modifications made differ by type of student disability, b) if there is a difference in the frequency of curricular modifications made for special and typical students, and c) if a relationship exists between modifications made for special needs students and for typical students. Results indicate the frequency of teachers' curricular modifications does not differ by type of disability; that they make significantly more frequent modifications for special needs students; and that there is a significant relationship between the frequency of modifications …

Practitioners' News - Winter 2002, Volume 29, Number 2, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

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0502-10 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-2 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-5 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-6 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-7 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-8 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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Identifying Gifted African-American Students: A Case Study Of A Louisiana School System, Donna Lynn Sutton

Doctoral Dissertations

In 1995, the Office for Civil Rights conducted a compliance review of the Bayou Parish School System (a pseudonym) in Louisiana. The review revealed a statistically significant underrepresentation of African-American students in the Bayou Parish gifted program. This case study examined how African-American representation in a gifted program may be increased through the use of research-based interventions implemented by the Office for Civil Rights.

The researcher used both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect and analyze data. Documents from the Office for Civil Rights and the Louisiana Department of Education were examined to: (a) show patterns of African-American and nonminority …

School Entry Policy In Indiana: The Relationship Between School-Entry Age And Academic School Performance, Randall Eugene Garratt

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This study looked at ISTEP+ reading and quantitative test scores of 200 randomly selected Indiana elementary third grade male and female children. The selected data were derived from a total of 838 sets of scores of children from ten urban school settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate differences of school-entry age and later academic school performance on the two youngest groups” of male and female children in Indiana who were age eligible to enter kindergarten. In this study test scores from two adjacent age groups of children who were eligible to begin school on June 1 were …

How To Construct An Underclass, Or How The War On Drugs Became A War On Education, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

The war on drugs has spawned a second front-a war on education. The casualties of this war are all poor or lower-income people who cannot afford to buy a private education. This article details the consequences of this other war, and explores some legislative and litigation strategies for reclaiming educational opportunity for all Americans. First, however, we must set out in more detail the laws and policies that now deploy educational privation as punishment in public schools, colleges, and prisons.

Where Joy Resides: Four Teacher Educators Evaluate Themselves Via Multiple Literacy Artifacts And Reflections, L Kathryn Staley

Doctoral Dissertations

Through qualitative case studies, I explored what or who influenced four teacher educators to use multiple literacy artifacts and reflections to evaluate themselves, and help their students do the same. I define a wide range of print and non-print mediums as multiple literacies in that some learners rely on them to explore and express what they value as evaluators. Given that some students understand a poem or a social studies concept better when evaluate their interpretations through drama or drawing, as well as talk or writing, it is important for these students to be in classrooms where multiple avenues for …

Efforts To Equalize Funding Between Wealthy And Poor School Districts In Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont, Michael Robert Harris

Doctoral Dissertations

Funding inequities between rich and poor school districts have been the subject of analysis, litigation, and policy decisions across the United States for almost four decades. Pressures for the reform of state educational funding systems have been driven by the national political trend toward equal educational opportunity and by litigation in state courts. The policy responses by states have varied significantly, however, and that variation has characterized the responses in the three New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Much research nationally has focused on the litigation about school funding, but little study has been given to the …

Sense Of Place Among New England Organic Farmers And Commercial Fishermen: How Social Context Shapes Identity And Environmentally Responsible Behavior, Anneliese Marie Mueller

Doctoral Dissertations

Given the prominence of sense of place in new environmental education curricula, this study aims to strengthen the conceptual and empirical foundations of sense of place, and to determine how sense of place may be linked to environmentally responsible behavior. For this study, five commercial fishermen and five organic farmers from the New England Seacoast region participated in a series of in-depth phenomenological interviews and observations. The data was systematically coded in order to allow themes and categories to emerge. The results indicate that aspects of the existing conceptual framework of sense of place, such as place attachment, ecological knowledge, …

Third-Grade Evaluators Thrive As Readers, Amy Frances Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

This study addresses the question, "When third grade students become evaluators of themselves as readers, what new roles do they negotiate for themselves?" I studied third grade students who became evaluators of themselves as readers, examining evaluation process. This included their own determination of their strengths, goals, assignments, and what to use as documentation of their learning processes in portfolios, as well as the influence of the classroom community on goal setting. Using observation, co-teaching, and group and individual interviews, I documented the new roles students adopted as they became better evaluators of their learning needs and took a more …

0502-1 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-4 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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0502-9 2002 Ballot Information Booklet, Colorado Legislative Council

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Moving Mountains In The Lntercultural Classroom, Vivian Faith Martindale

Ethnic Studies Review

Today many Alaska Natives are seeking a higher education; however due to subtle differences in communication styles between the Native Alaskan student and Euro-American instructor, both students and educator frequently experience communication difficulties. This paper examines the differences in non-verbal communication, the assumption of similarities, stereotyping, preconceptions, and misinterpretations that may occur between Alaska Native and Euro-American cultures. University classrooms are becoming increasingly multicultural, and one teaching style may not be effective with all students. Those involved with education need to promote flexibility and awareness of cultural differences in order to achieve successful communication in the classroom.

Identifying Accommodations For Inclusion Settings: A Strategy For Special And General Educators, Karen A. Verbeke Ph.D.

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

Identifying accommodations for students with disabilities is an important part of the collaboration that must take place between special and general educators as a result of the regulations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997). The law has placed more emphasis on having students with disabilities receive the majority of their instruction in “regular” classes with the use of supplementary aids and services. Identifying these accommodations can be a daunting task for new as well as veteran teachers because there are so many possible accommodations. One strategy, PRESS, has been effective in the training of new teachers and …

Behavior Analysis: No Defense Required, James D. Dunne Ph.D.

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

Many people, professional educators and others, criticize what they call behavior modification because they believe it applies only to animals or people with disabilities and represents little more than the application of good common sense. This paper argues that behavior modification, more accurately called behavior analysis, has produced many procedures that apply to the behavior of people with and without disabilities across a variety of settings. This paper examines 4 behavior analytic teaching strategies (Personalized System of Instruction, Programmed Instruction, Direct Instruction, and Precision Teaching) to illustrate the sophistication and wide application of behavior analysis. It concludes that such behavior …

Broadly Speaking - January, 2002, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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