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Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/39 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Baselines for assessment of choice programs / Paul T. Hill [and] Kacey Guin.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/33 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Wanted :a national teacher supply policy for education : the right way to meet the "highly ualified teacher" challenge /Linda Darling-Hammond [and] Gary Sykes.

A Clinical Instructor Online Training Course For Radiologic Technologists, Christine Marie Beaudry

All Graduate Projects

An online training module was developed for Radiologic Sciences Clinical Instructors at Clinical Education Centers for Yakima Valley Community College. This training module orients new Clinical Instructors to accreditation standards, as well as orients them to student and technologist requirements for the Radiologic Sciences Program.

De L’Aliénation À La Libération, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay addresses the issue of education in pre and post-colonial Africa. It examines the ideological discourses, challenges and consequences associated with the adoption of western education in African countries. Based on novels and films, some of which are set in universities, the article analyses the effects of violence and irrelevant syllabi on African education, and argues that in order for knowledge to serve as a tool for real liberation, it has to be relevant to the social environment. It contends further that, paradoxically, even colonial education can contribute towards the liberation of Africans from some problematic aspects of their …

Fourth-Grade Teachers' Perceptions Of Nebraska's State Standards Process In Elementary Schools, Richard J. Beran Jr.

Student Work

The purpose of this study was to explore fourth-grade teachers' perceptions of Nebraska's state standards process. Specifically, research questions sought to determine fourth-grade teachers' perceptions of the possible effects of state standards on schools, students, teachers, and administrators. The questions also explored any differences between subgroups based on teachers' gender, teachers' years of experience, schools' socio-economic status, school enrollment, and percentage of students that have met the state standards.

The Severe Weather Knowledge Of College Students In The State Of Mississippi, David Joseph Nussbaum

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify how knowledgeable the students of Mississippi are of severe weather. The state of Mississippi is ranked second in the nation with the total number of deaths per state per year. The state also ranks among the top 10 of all states with number of tornadoes per state and cost of damage per state. Considering the facts mentioned above, a study was designed to discover if the students were taught severe weather awareness while they progressed through their twelve years of elementary and secondary schooling. A survey was created through the research of …

Consuming Government, Richard Schragger

Michigan Law Review

In his ambitious new book, William Fischel, a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, gives us a new political animal: "The Homevoter." The homevoter is simply a homeowner who votes (p. ix). According to Fischel, she is the key to understanding the political economy of American local government. By implication, she is the key to understanding state and national government as well. Homeowners warrant special attention because "residents who own their own homes have a stake in the outcome of local politics that make them especially attentive to the public policies of local government" (p. ix). That is because local …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/14 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Educational aspirations and postsecondary access and choice : students in urban, suburban, and rural schools compared / Shouping Hu.

Pages News, Volume 11, No. 1, April 2003, Andre Paul, Christoph Kull, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Rates of Change -- Tales from the Field: Yemen -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Program News -- DEKLIM: German Climate Research -- National Page -- South Africa -- Science Highlights -- Variation in Atmospheric CO2 -- Treeline Shifts in the Ural Mountains -- Oak Forest Expansion in Europe -- Mass Loss of Alpine Glaciers -- Hydrological Cycles in the Mediterranean -- Temperature Variations in the Intermediate-Depth Atlantic Ocean -- Global Sea Level Changes -- Workshop Reports -- LIMPACS Workshop, Silkeborg, Denmark -- Quaternary Environmental Change, Pondicherry, India -- Last Page -- Calendar -- …

Vol. 04 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

One Strike And You're Out? Constitutional Constraints On Zero Tolerance In Public Education, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

Various studies reported that juvenile crimes of violence fell in the 1990s by as much as 30%. ¹⁰ In high schools specifically, the incidence of threatening behavior in 1996 changed little from two decades earlier, ¹¹ with the chances of being killed in school far less than being struck by lighting. ¹² The "juvenile crime bomb" proved illusory (as Delulio himself eventually acknowledged ¹³), but the severe measures designed to deal with it remain entrenched. Zero tolerance has taken on a life of its own, partly because public misperception remains high, ¹⁴ and partly because in our hardheaded times …

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative: Teacher, Student, And School Perspectives, Mid-Year Evaluation Report, David L. Silvernail Phd, Walter J. Harris Phd, Dawn M.M. Lane, Janet C. Fairman Phd, Paula B. Gravelle, Lori Smith, Katherine I. Sargent, Walter Mcintire

Education Technology

This report presents some early evaluation evidence on the effectiveness and impact of the implementation of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI). The goal of the Year One evaluation, which is being conducted by the Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI), is to provide policymakers and practitioners with information that will assist them in determining whether or not, and to what degree, the vision and goals of the MLTI are being achieved. The Year One design is focusing primarily on the students who entered seventh grade in September 2002, and their teachers and schools.

The MEPRI evaluation team has focused …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Impact of Minnesota's "Profile of Learning" on teaching and learning in English and social studies classrooms / Patricia G. Avery, Richard Beach [and] Jodiann Coler.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/05 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Continuing education reform in Hong Kong : issues of contextualization / Chris Dowson, Peter Bodycott, Allan Walker [and] David Coniam.

Science And Urban Life: Enter The Automobile. Lesson Plan For Grades 9 And 10, John Bowers

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about the invention of the automobile and its impact on history.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

The Making Of A Poet And A People. Learning American History At Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial: Grade 9 (10) Field Trip Model, Timothy Binkley

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about the life and poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

Genealogy Project: Lesson Plan For Grade 10

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about immigration to America.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project. This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

Freedom And Prosperity: Lesson Plan For Grades 9, 10, 11, And 12, Kay Slone

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about the freedom and prosperity in various nations.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

Mapping Ethnic Neighborhoods: Lesson Plan For Grade 10

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about urban immigrant tendencies, living conditions, and ethnic neighborhoods.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project. This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

Introducing Performance Into The Communication Curriculum For Engineers: Breaking The Mould, Constance Matilda Israel

Doctoral Dissertations

Education in South Africa has, thankfully, not escaped the winds of change. The introduction of Outcomes-based Education (OBE) has generated much debate. How have technikons responded to the educational transformation impelled by sociopolitical change? I refer here specifically to the Communication curricula for engineers at Mangosuthu Technikon.

This research explores the effects in my Communication classroom of introducing performance, through games and a dramatic text. My intention is to subvert the potential dangers of OBE, given its behaviourist and prescriptive thrust, and a possible reversion to the transmission model in its application at Mantec. I argue that gaps in the …

Using Multiple Intelligence Theory To Teach K-2 Geography, Timothy Lintner

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Shi‘A Ismaili Tradition In Central Asia: Evolution, Continuities And Changes, Sarfaroz Niyozov

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

No abstract provided.

Teachers' Perceptions Of Societal Factors In Teacher Education During The 1980s, Suzanne Michele Katz

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Over the past 150 years teacher education has continually been accepted as a necessity for those charged with instructing the young, especially when paired with the common school movement. If all school-aged children were to be in classrooms it followed that teachers trained in educating students needed to be available. As school populations exploded from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, most communities called for teachers in increasing numbers. Such is an example of the link between societal factors and the education of teachers. The political, historic, and societal foundations on which the practice of teacher education is grounded …

Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner

Faculty Scholarship

This comment analyzes the current state of students' free speech rights in the context of creative writing assignments and examines potential First Amendment applications to the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), a statewide, mandatory, standards-based exam administered to Pennsylvania public school students. The PSSA, which currently contains a writing assessment for students in sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades requiring students to write essays in response to prompts, is scored anonymously by private entities under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Those private subcontractors have "red-flagging" procedures in place to identify essays containing imagery or themes that indicate imminent …

Exploring Nevada's Past And Present: Archaeology Education And Nevada Public Schools, Victoria L Fisher

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

State mandated education concerning the first Nevadans begins in the fourth grade. A series of content standards, or guidelines which identify what students should know and be able to do by the end of each grade, has been developed by the state to assist teachers in meeting this requirement. Though Native Americans are covered in roughly a third of the content standards, there are very few materials available to meet these standards. While there are many materials that attempt to teach the "prehistory" of native Nevada, there are few that are designed to meet the standards that the state has …

Silicon Ceilings: Information Technology Equity, The Digital Divide And The Gender Gap Among Information Technology Professionals, Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 3, December 2002, Christian Pfister, Heinz Wanner

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Documentary Data -- Conferences: Upcoming PAGES Sessions -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- LAMSCAN: Lake Sediments, Scandinavia -- National Page -- USA -- Science Highlights -- Documentary Data: An Overview -- LOTRED: Paleoreanalysis for Europe -- The Potential in Latin America -- ENSO Reconstructions in South America -- Temperature Reconstructions in Japan -- China: A 2000 Year Temperature History -- USA: Past Climate and Cyclones -- Floods in Europe -- Art and Climate -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene Catastrophes and Recoveries -- Swiss NCCR-Climate Summer School -- Last Page -- Calendar -- …

Vol. 03 No. 3 Religious Educator, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

“Those Who See”: A Century's Charge To Religious Educators, Scott C. Esplin, Brent R. Esplin

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 2, July 2002, Tom Edwards, Christoph Kull, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Editorial -- Stable Isotopes/Swiss Sojourn -- The PAGES Synthesis Project -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- NOClim: Norwegian Ocean Climate Project -- National Page -- Switzerland -- Science Highlights -- Extending Isotope in Precipitation Data Beyond Direct Measurements -- Holocene Variability in the Indian Ocean Monsoon -- Isotopic Records of Past Hydroclimatic Change -- A New Conceptual Model for Predicting Isotopic Enrichment of Lakes -- Modelling the Water Isotope Signal in the Quaternary -- Towards a Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Climatic Change -- Past and Present Ecohydrology …