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Full-Text Articles in Education
A Storied Tale: Melding Digital Storytelling, Service-Learning, And Digital And Information Literacy Skills For Pre-Service Teachers, Heather K. Beirne
A Storied Tale: Melding Digital Storytelling, Service-Learning, And Digital And Information Literacy Skills For Pre-Service Teachers, Heather K. Beirne
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Today’s teachers, a diverse body of individuals with a variety of technological backgrounds and skill sets, often find themselves working from a “digital immigrant” perspective. Even pre-service teachers, who may be classified as digital natives, report “strong positive beliefs in technology, yet moderate confidence and reserved attitude in using technology” (Lei, 2009); Lei reports that, though they are often viewed as “innovative users of available technology and eager adopters of new technology,” pre-service teachers are also not utilizing digital technology to its fullest advantage, self-report that they do not feel comfortable with or proficient at the use of higher level …
Turning Teachers Into Action Researchers In Their Classrooms, Dusty Columbia Embury, Laura S. Clarke
Turning Teachers Into Action Researchers In Their Classrooms, Dusty Columbia Embury, Laura S. Clarke
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Action research is often called the teacher’s research and often feels like a common sense approach to solving problems, but not all pre-service teachers begin careers knowing how to use this methodology to improve their own practice. This article offers a rationale for teaching pre-service teachers the skills and action research methodology as a tool for professional improvement based on the experiences of the authors engaging in a reflective process for teaching. While not generalizable, it is hoped that lessons learned may be applied by other faculty in teacher education programs.
Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias, Samuel Hinton
Creating Culturally Considerate Schools: Educating Without Bias, Samuel Hinton
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This book review first discusses the book’s major content divisions and follows with a general analysis of concepts. The book is structured into phases of equity development namely, selfexamination, reflection, integration, actualization, and educational equity (p. 12). The phases are further subdivided into eight manageable steps of personal and professional growth that would empower teachers to operate in culturally considerate classrooms, galvanized by school climates and cultures that support individual and collective student achievement. The eight stages of personal and professional growth are: acknowledgement of bias, assessment of current equity skills, acceptance of limitations, cognitive restructuring, expanding knowledge base, skill …
A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover
A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Berea College's Rural School Improvement Project worked directly with more than 5,000 children and 63 teaching fellows in 39 different schools over 13 counties, and one independent school district, involving 10 county school supervisors. Project estimates claimed an indirect impact on approximately 45,000 children within the RSIP school districts. The RSIP represented the thinking of national leaders of rural education in the 1950s who promoted improved administration of the schools combined with an active community engagement program based on “full respect for human personality” and “shared judgments.” Following so many decades of poverty and isolation, it is no easy task …
Steps To Support Student Engagement In An Online Course With Large Enrollments, Paula Jones
Steps To Support Student Engagement In An Online Course With Large Enrollments, Paula Jones
Instructional Development Center Faculty and Staff Research
In online courses with large enrollments, it may be difficult to support students in becoming engaged communications or projects simply because of the sheer number of students involved in the course. In this session, we will look at a summary list of steps to follow that is intended to help faculty developers to plan ways to support student engagement in an online course, specifically related to courses with large enrollments. We will then have an open discussion of methods others use in their courses to support student engagement. Finally, we will explore some specific free or low cost resources used …
First In Reform: The Adoption Of Common Core State Standards In Kentucky, Richard E. Day
First In Reform: The Adoption Of Common Core State Standards In Kentucky, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
On February 11, 2010, in an unprecedented joint meeting, the chairs of the Kentucky Board of Education, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Education Professional Standards Board signed a resolution directing their respective agencies to implement the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and mathematics. This act formalized Kentucky’s commitment to integrate the nascent standards into the state’s public education system – the first state to do so. This article will trace the antecedents to Kentucky’s adoption of the standards as one expression of the late 20th century/early 21st century “corporate school reform movement” as manifested in the …
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann Ewalt
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann Ewalt
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This chapter discusses primary- and secondary- education policy in Kentucky and the political and environmental forces that have led to significant policy changes over the years. The primary emphasis of our policy coverage is, first, an analysis of the political decision making that led to sweeping policy changes called for in the 1989 Kentucky Supreme Court decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education and implemented through the subsequent education- reform legislation, the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA).
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Joann Ewalt
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Joann Ewalt
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This chapter discusses primary- and secondary- education policy in Kentucky and the political and environmental forces that have led to significant policy changes over the years. The primary emphasis of our policy coverage is, first, an analysis of the political decision making that led to sweeping policy changes called for in the 1989 Kentucky Supreme Court decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education and implemented through the subsequent education- reform legislation, the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Through these actions Kentucky completely overhauled its school finance system and its curricular and assessment processes. The second emphasis of …
A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries
A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
The 42-year career of M. A. Cassidy exemplifies the transition of public school leadership in Kentucky from non-educators who held religious-political ideologies to professional progressive educators who sought to make Kentucky schools more efficient through expertise and scientific management. This concept was fully adopted in Section 183 of the Kentucky Constitution (1891) which required the General Assembly to “provide for an efficient system of common schools throughout the state.” Confident that professional educators were best suited to devise solutions to social problems, and justified by the twin notions of equality of educational opportunity and meritocracy, Cassidy was part of a …
Bert Combs And The Council For Better Education: Catalysts For School Reform, Richard E. Day
Bert Combs And The Council For Better Education: Catalysts For School Reform, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
A history of the beginnings of the Council for Better Education and their successful litigation, Rose v Council for Better Education. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, published continuously since 1903, is among the oldest historical journals in America but continues to provide fresh perspectives on the history of Kentucky and its people. The Register includes the work of leading scholars on the commonwealth but is widely accessible to general readers interested in Kentucky history. Published quarterly, it is a benefit of Kentucky Historical Society membership. Leading scholars whose articles have appeared in the Register include James A. Ramage, …
Each Child, Every Child, Richard E. Day
Each Child, Every Child, Richard E. Day
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Dr. Day was was invited to present at a peer-reviewed international symposium on education reform. This presentation puts the struggle for adequately funded public schools into an historical context, focusing on the Kentucky Supreme Court’s decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education.
Appendix H: Council Membership Chronological, Richard E. Day
Appendix H: Council Membership Chronological, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
0.2_Introductory Material 2, Richard E. Day
0.2_Introductory Material 2, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, List of Figures, Note ot Readers
Appendix B: Bibliography, Richard E. Day
Appendix B: Bibliography, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Bibliography
Appendix I: Cases Related To School Finance And Equity, Richard E. Day
Appendix I: Cases Related To School Finance And Equity, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Appendix D: Council Documents, Richard E. Day
Appendix D: Council Documents, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
List of Council Documents reviewed
Appendix A: Primary Sources, Richard E. Day
Appendix A: Primary Sources, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Primary Sources
0.1_Introductory Material 1, Richard E. Day
0.1_Introductory Material 1, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Title pages
Appendix G: Council Membership By District, Richard E. Day
Appendix G: Council Membership By District, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Council Membership by District
Appendix C: Council For Better Education: Chronology Of Events, Richard E. Day
Appendix C: Council For Better Education: Chronology Of Events, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Council for Better Education: Chronology of Events
Appendix E: Council Expenses, Richard E. Day
Appendix E: Council Expenses, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Appendix F: Council Finances, Richard E. Day
Appendix F: Council Finances, Richard E. Day
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.