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A Case Study Of The Effects Of Residential And School Mobility On Academic Achievement Among At -Risk High School Students, Karen Marie Andrews

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The purpose of the study was to investigate whether student residential and school mobility were related to alternative high school student academic achievement as measured by Graduation Qualifying Exam (GQE) scores and final cumulative grade point average (GPA). Residential and school mobility were defined using Swanson and Schneider's categories: movers, students who move from one residence to another but do not change schools; changers, students who change schools but do not move from one residence to another; and leavers, students who both move from one residence to another and change schools. The investigation was conducted as a case study of …

Welcome, Patricia R. Renick Ph.D.

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

Welcome to the 6th edition of the Electronic Journal of Inclusive Education.

Providing insight into changing the attitudes of regular educators concerning inclusive practice and knowledge concerning accommodating students with special learning needs is the focus of this edition. We also have an article addressing concerns about the use of behavior modification in public school classrooms. As the conversation continues concerning including students with special needs in regular education classrooms, the need for greater awareness and acceptance of the diversity inherent in the human condition becomes clearer in light of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. One …

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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0503 2002 Ballot Information Booklet; Spanish, Colorado Legislative Council

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Effective Best Practices For School Boards: Linking Local Governance With Student Academic Success, Christine Thurlow Brenner, Gary L. Sullivan, Elizabeth Dalton

IPED Technical Reports

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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 …

Index 2002, Index Editors

1971-2017

This is the College of Wooster Index from 2002. The sections of the Index include Student Life, Sports, Seniors, Faculty, Greeks & Organizations, Residential Life & Housing, and Advertisements.

Charter School Office Annual Report (2002-2003), Grand Valley State University

Charter School Reports from 1998-2005

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Microfinance And Households Coping With Hiv/Aids In Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Study, Horizons Program

HIV and AIDS

The widespread prevalence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa adversely affects millions of households. In recent years, microfinance has been proposed as a strategy to help the households of microentrepreneurs respond to the negative economic impacts of HIV/AIDS. This attention to the potential role of microfinance builds upon earlier research that shows that microfinance institutions (MFIs) that charge commercial rates of interest and use sound business practices can become operationally self-sustainable and help improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable nonpoor. This type of MFI generally offers small loans, often combined with savings services. An MFI may also offer business …

Cd 651 Professional Foundations Of Christian Education, Beverly C. Johnson-Miller

Syllabi

1. Models of Religious Education: Theory and Practice in Historical and Contemporary Perspective by Harold Burgess

One View To Add To The Many, Bill Piatt

Faculty Articles

The United States offers its citizens the opportunity to participate in the legal and political system through which it governs. The Constitution ensures that its citizens may engage, participate, and represent the body politics in government and the application of its laws. The recent attacks on America and the failure of the immigration system in monitoring its applicants has resulted in more restrictive immigration laws and policy.

The country’s legal education system must continue to improve its efforts in diversifying the nation’s law schools. More minorities should be represented as students, professors, and deans. Accomplishing a more diversified legal education …

The Impact Of A Culturally Responsive School Environment On Pre-Service Teachers' Willingness To Teach In A School, Delois Maxwell

Trotter Review

In a climate that acknowledges the need for teacher educators to prepare new teachers for culturally diverse student bodies, the study examines the extent to which selected features of an urban school environment affect a preservice teacher's willingness to teach in the school. A survey was administered to 48 preservice teachers after they completed a 7-week student teaching experience in a large urban school district. The survey sample was drawn from a northeastern university which enrolls 90% Caucasian education students. The study pursues the following research questions: does race/ethnicity, gender, program level, school location and major relate to the preservice …

Commentary, Tammy Hart

Trotter Review

This interview of Dr. Philip Hart was conducted by his wife, Tanya Hart, an award-winning journalist. Tanya Hart is a graduate of the Michigan State University College of Communications Arts and Sciences. The university honored her as an Outstanding Alumnus in 1982. She also has a Master of Education degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Technology Leadership Of Elementary Principals: Standards, Competencies, And Integration, Theodore Kadela

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Virtual, On-Line, Frog Dissection Vs. Conventional Laboratory Dissection: A Comparison Of Student Achievement And Teacher Perceptions Among Honors, General Ability, And Foundations Level High School Biology Classes, Ronald H. Kopec

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How Do Faculty And Administrators Of Three Historically Black Colleges Perceive The Future Of Their Universities In The Period From 1999-2010, Joseph Henry Gardner Iii

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White Teachers, White Children, White Schools: Multiculturalism In Geographically Homogeneous Communities, Michelle (Mikki) Meadows

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This qualitative research study was intended to examine white teachers' reactions to the challenge of using transformative multiculturalEducation practices within predominately white classrooms in predominately white communities. Two research questions were addressed: (1) What are the personal constructs of teachers regarding their Whiteness? (2) How do constructs of Whiteness influence multiculturalEducation in a predominately white classroom? The researcher designed and implemented a training course for white teachers in predominately white environments. Sixteen early childhood professionals voluntarily participated in the course. As participants moved through the training course, data were collected from participant journals, transcripts of both training sessions and correspondences …

Administrators' And Adult Students' Perceptions Of Quality Indicators For Off -Campus Programs, Connie Sue Butler

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The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference between administrators' and adult students' perceptions of quality indicators for off-campus programs at Eastern Illinois University. The focus of the research was based on the perceptions of two distinct groups: administrators at Eastern Illinois University and adult students enrolled in off-campus courses at Eastern Illinois University. The study also sought to provide a list of designated quality indicators to be used by Eastern Illinois University and other higherEducation institutions with similar characteristics to evaluate off-campus programs. There are twenty-six quality indicators that this research identified grouped …

The Manifestation Of Leadership In Three High -Flying New Hampshire Elementary Schools, Steven Thomas Kelley

Doctoral Dissertations

Perhaps the most dominant feature marking today's educational landscape is the presence and growth of "reform efforts" occurring in schools everywhere. Educational institutions across the U.S. struggle to reform and improve the teaching and learning that occurs within their walls. The public demands higher standards, has greater expectations, and demands academic excellence. State testing has pointed out strengths and weaknesses present in our schools and in some cases, prompted state governments to intervene in an attempt to "rescue" schools that are not demonstrating adequate progress.

Over the past fifty years, school administrators and educational researchers have been captivated by the …

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, …

Elementary Accreditation: Pro Forma Or Substance? A View From Inside The Schoolhouse Gates, Maryann Johnson Minard

Doctoral Dissertations

Since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1986, educators, government officials and community members have grappled with the unwieldy task of defining effective measures of school improvement. Calls for accountability and improvement resound in the halls of legislatures, the media, and in communities nationwide. The accreditation of schools has served as a conduit for accountability, but has it served as a vehicle for improvement?

This study sought to determine how closely the process of elementary accreditation through the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) aligns with research-based models of effective school change and acts as a …

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Making Change In Early Head Start, Patrice W. Hallock

Doctoral Dissertations

This is a field study of families and home visitors in Early Head Start. Its purpose is to understand the social context of infants born into poverty and to understand the home visiting relationship when families receive intervention services from home visitors who are socially and economically different. Two questions were posed: First, how do socially and economically diverse families perceive infant well-being? Second, what is the experience of families who participate in Early Head Start? The study used interviews, participant observation, and cultural interpretation to understand the perspective of participant families.

The study provided evidence that economically and socially …