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For Whom Does The Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls For Brown?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Faculty Scholarship

This review essay analyzes Derrick Bell's provocative new book, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004). In Silent Covenants, Professor Bell reviews Brown v. Board of Education, and inquires "whether another approach than the one embraced by the Brown decision might have been more effective and less disruptive in the always-contentious racial arena." Specifically, Professor Bell joins black conservatives in critiquing what he describes as a misguided focus on achieving racial balance in schools and argues that the quality of education for minority children, in particular Blacks, would have been better today …

Changing To A Student-Centred Paradigm: The Why, What And How, Mike Murphy

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Stakeholder Perceptions Of Hearing Examiner Legislation In Texas Teacher Dismissal Cases, Sofia Annette Adams-Valdez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

As of January 1996 a new process has been implemented in teacher dismissal cases in Texas public schools. In the new process a hearing examiner is assigned by the Texas Education Agency to oversee fact-finding duties in mid-contract teacher dismissals, thereby circumventing the previously exclusive adjudicative role of school board members in dismissal cases.

This study explores the implementation of the 1995 legislation that resulted in major changes to the teacher dismissal process in Texas, an important component of the larger and broader educational reform mandates that have been gradually introduced by the Texas legislature over the last decade.

Qualitative …

A Study On Leadership Development For Effectivess: The Effects Of Implementing Four Leadership Development Activities With Tribal College Administrators At The Branch Campus Level As A Strategy To Articulate A College Mission, Paul Willeto

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This portfolio contains the Table of Contents, the Educational Platform, Leadership Educational Administration Plan (LEAP) I and II, Professional Commitment, Significant Leadership experience, Assessment and External Judgment, and the Integrative Capstone. The Table of Contents lists the sections for each area in sequential order in the portfolio. The Educational Platform discusses my perspective on education. In the LEAP sections, LEAP I describes m y initial attempt at how I envisioned my first Leadership Educational Administration Plan. LEAP I describes what I wanted to do at the beginning o f my study in relation to my first capstone study proposal. LEAP …

Bailey, Shirley, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

112^th Interview

Interviewee: Shirley Anderson Bailey

Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison

The interview took place April 26, 2005

Summarized by Concetta Gleason 1-17-07

Shirley Anderson Bailey’s family, consisting of her mother, younger brother and herself, moved from Harlem to the Bronx in 1942 when Bailey was seven years old. Bailey’s family happened to move to the same area of the Bronx with some of their neighbors from Harlem. Bailey’s father was away trying to find work in Connecticut because of the Depression and Bailey’s mother took night classes and was one of the few working women in the neighborhood. Most …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/28 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Savings education : learning the value of self-control / Patricia A. Hutton [and] James M. Holmes.

Gender And Generational Differences In The Self-Ratings Of Leadership Practices By Elementary School Administrators Within Four Florida Counties, Michele E. Polk

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Considerable research has been conducted over time on possible gender differences, with varying results regarding the existence and/or degree of differences. In particular, research on differences in leadership practices of men and women have abounded since the 1970s as women began to make their way into management and supervisory positions.

In todays work force, several generations can be found working together within a single work setting. Possibly, differences in leadership may be more generational than gender related; however, little research has considered both gender and generation as variables. This study adds to literature relating to the existence of gender and/or …

Crime On Campus 2004, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Crime on Campus

No abstract provided.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/27 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

O crescimento da educação superior privada no Brasil: implicações para as questões de eqüidade, qualidade e benefício público / Tristan McCowan.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Accountability and the pressures to exclude : a cautionary tale from England / E. Rustique-Forrester.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/25 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Progress of African Americans in higher education attainment : the widening gender gap and its current and future implications / Amadu J. Kaba.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/24 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

The No Child Left Behind Act and the legacy of federal aid to education / Lee W. Anderson.

The High School Attainment Credit: A Tax Credit Encouraging Students To Graduate From High School, David Richard Hansen

ExpressO

High school dropouts are a serious problem facing America today. High school dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, earn less money when employed, place a larger burden on the government by requiring public assistance (welfare), and are more likely to be prone to a life of crime and violence than high school completers. While government at all levels continues to focus on schools and teachers in solving the dropout problem, this paper shows how parents are where the focus should lie. This paper proposes a revolutionary tax credit, the High School Attainment Credit (“HSAC”), which would cost-effectively eradicate the …

Fort Wayne Alumnus, Taylor University Fort Wayne

TUFW Alumni Publications (All)

The Spring 2005 edition of The Fort Wayne Alumnus, published by Taylor University Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

News From Gold Circle - Spring 2005, Nova Southeastern University

Gold Circle

No abstract provided.

The Alumni Network, Spring 2005 (Vol. Xix No. 1), Nova Southeastern University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Cultural Literacy And The American Public Schools, Julie Mckee

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

Volume 20, Number 1, Department Of Church Relations

Pacific Church News

Edited by Jerry Rushford

Spring 2005

Spring 2005 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Student Perspectives On Rubric-Referenced Assessment, Heidi L. Andrade, Ying Du

Educational & Counseling Psychology Faculty Scholarship

This study suggests that students use rubrics to support their own learning and academic performance. In focus groups, fourteen undergraduate students discussed the ways in which they used rubrics to plan an approach to an assignment, check their work, and guide or reflect on feedback from others. The students said that using rubrics helped them focus their efforts, produce work of higher quality, earn a better grade, and feel less anxious about an assignment. Their comments also revealed that most of the students tend not to read a rubric in its entirety, and that some may perceive of a rubric …

Pages News, Volume 13, No. 1, April 2005, Christoph Kull, Leah Christen, Thorsten Kiefer

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Future PAGES -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf: PEP III -- Tales from the Field -- In Memory of Geoffrey O. Seltzer -- Program News -- IGBP Phase II and PAGES -- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection -- Recoring Lynch's Crater (Australia) -- National Page -- Japan -- Science Highlights -- Radiocarbon in Tree Rings -- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial Record from Northern Tunisia -- Paleoclimate and Fossil Woods in Tropical India -- An Upwelling Seesaw in the Atlantic -- Why Study Past Regional Variability? -- Workshop Reports -- Chapman Conference - USA -- Swiss HITE …

Information-Seeking Behaviors Of Practitioners In A Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network (Pbrn), James E. Andrews, Kevin A. Pearce, Carol Ireson, Margaret M. Love

School of Information Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the information-seeking behaviors (e.g., information resource usage patterns, access to types of sources and to medical libraries, and use of particular information technologies) of members in a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN) to inform future efforts supporting primary care practitioners in their daily care of patients.

METHODS: Every primary care practitioner who was a member of the Kentucky Ambulatory Network-including family practitioners, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants-was surveyed. The cross-sectional survey included twenty-six questions to investigate the information-seeking behavior of primary care practitioners.

RESULTS: The response rate was …

Flarr Pages: Volume 1, Pages 1-43, Foreign Language Association Of The Red River

FLARR Pages

During Spring and Fall conferences of FLARR, since the Fall of 1994 (the organization holds joint meetings with MCTLC in the Spring), 159 presentations were were delivered. Of those talks, about one quarter were submitted to FLARR Pages and appear now in Volume #1. The journal articles are a sampling of the issues and concerns of the past decade. They represent, as do all the presentations (see Appendix A), the innovative ways in which faculty have responded to current demands and challenges of teaching, research, service, programming, and many other areas of professional life, both in the public schools and …

A Comparison Of Teachers' And Parents' Perceptions Of The Behaviors Of Effective Catholic Elementary School Principals, Diane M. Cronin

Student Work

This was a quantitative study investigating three main questions. The first two questions ascertained teachers' and parents' perceptions of the most important behaviors of effective Catholic elementary school principals in the areas of leadership styles, religious leader, instructional leader, administrator, and communicator, and the third question compared the perceptions of the two groups.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/23 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Using Pressure and Support to Create a Qualified Workforce / Sharon Ryan [and] Debra J. Ackerman.

A Profile Of Choice/Responsibleness And Goal-Seeking Attitudes Among First-Generation And Non-First-Generation College Students, Terence Hicks

Faculty Working Papers from the School of Education

No abstract provided.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Cambios y conflictos en los discursos politico-pedagógicos sobre la niversidad / Luis Alberto Malagón Plata.

A Model For Computer Supported Learning In Undergraduate Education, Lotfi K. Gaafar

Faculty Journal Articles

Reflecting on an earlier observation by Dr. Herb Thompson (Department of Economics) that most of us had to teach ourselves how to teach* , I realized early on in my career that the best way to describe my role as a teacher is that of a learning facilitator. Sometimes that entails leading the way, and other times it requires pointing directions and getting out of the way.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/21 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Texas charter school legislation and the evolution of open-enrollment charter schools / Carrie Y. Barron Ausbrooks, Edith J. Barrett [and] Theresa Daniel.

Treatment Of Religious Expresssion And Belief In Utah Public Schools: Perspectives Of The Religious Minority, Eric-Jon Keawe Marlowe

Theses and Dissertations

Recorded members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (also known as Mormon or LDS) comprise over 70% of Utah's population. This qualitative study identifies the unique concerns and challenges that members of Utah's minority religions may face in public schools. Semi-structured interviews, designed to elicit rich, detailed information, were conducted with 48 participants (13 leaders, 17 parents, 18 students) from seven different minority religions in Utah. Each interview was audio taped, transcribed, and then analyzed using the qualitative analysis program N-Vivo. Looking at the school institutional treatment (laws, policy, teachers, administrators) of participants' religions, few expressed major …