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Topics: Teachers, Small colleges, Public schools
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Randall, S. S. (Samuel Sidwell), 1809-1881
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"Adopted May, nineteen hundred and twenty-one"-cover
Topics: Newton (Mass.). School Committee, Public schools, Vocational education
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Jul 24, 2016
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Jul 24, 2016
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Joaquim Manuel Andrade, Dr. Azágua
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Teaching English Language Learners (ELL) in the Public Schools
Topics: ELL, english language learners, bilingual education, capeverdeans, brockton public schools
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Joaquim Manuel Andrade, Dr. Azágua
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Bilingual Education and the Social dynamics in the Public Schools
Topics: bilingual education, public schools, capeverdeans, brockton public schools, education
Topics: Military education, Education and state, Public schools, Schools, Education law and legislation,...
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Topics: Education, Secondary, Public schools, Educational law and legislation
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Canton (Mass.). School Building Committee
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Financial accounts for building the Crane School, Bolivar and Washington Street, Canton, Mass.
Topics: Crane School (Canton, Mass.), Public schools--Massachusetts--Canton--Finance
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Victor Miller, Phillip Robertson, Bureau of Building Inspection (BBI), Randy Shaw, Latinos, Maritza...
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Topics: protestant, catholic, native, religious, bishop, sectarian, public, catholics, protestants, bishop...
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For over 20 years, educators and administrators across North America have heatedly debated the value of large-scale student assessment. Throughout the history of schooling in British Columbia, large-scale student assessment outcomes have traditionally served to inform broader societal goals. Realistically, "assessment of" group learning (as opposed to classroom-based "assessment for" individual learning) will continue as the government's key focus. We also raise several...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Measurement, Academic Achievement, Testing,...
Four typical arrangements for relating faith to schooling were developed in Canada during the nineteenth century. All resulted from compromises between the assimilating traditions of Christian Constantinianism and Enlightenment liberalism. These arrangements only reluctantly accommodate the religious diversity within society. Although scholars classify Alberta's system as non-sectarian public schooling with minority denominational districts, evidence suggests the advent of a new pragmatic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, School Choice, Public Schools, Religion, Public Policy, Canada...
Almost non-existent five years ago, the use of online courses has grown dramatically in Maryland, with more than 25 courses now available. Online course enrollments have also increased from 31 students in 2003 to more than 600 in 2006. A major reason for this remarkable growth has been the Maryland Students Online Consortium (MSOC), a state-local partnership involving two-thirds of Maryland's 24 school systems (23 counties, one city) and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). MSOC...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Online Courses, Counties, Consortia, Cooperation, Enrollment,...
In this essay, the authors explore the structures, processes, and messages that accountability reforms communicate about the goals and means of coming to know history. In other words, how do existing history standards and formal curricula officialize certain orientations toward historical knowledge and traditions through which that knowledge is taught? Specifically, they begin by examining the "National History Standards" and the "History and Social Science Standards of Learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, National Standards, Social Sciences, Academic Standards, Instructional Materials,...
This study explores how a project-based approach, based on gifted education pedagogy, was implemented in a public school program where the majority of students were from low-income families. The 2 first-grade teachers in this study were able to change their teaching practices to include more strategies commonly found in gifted programs such as brainstorming, creating surveys, and collecting data. The teachers also indicated a greater comfort level with a child-centered and project-based...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Group Activities, Educational Change, Low Income Groups,...
Students have problems in their lives, but can teachers help them? Should teachers help? The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act and its emphasis on standardized test results have forced school systems to produce high scores, and in turn school administrators pressure teachers to prepare students for taking standardized tests. Teachers may want to deal with students' problems, but a required curriculum emphasizing skill drills has compromised teaching time. Teachers are not free to determine what...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Federal Legislation, Teacher Responsibility, Problem Solving,...
In this article, the author answers the question: "Why do Americans love to reform the public schools?" His answer has three parts. First, there is an old and persistent cultural strain in American history, derived from many sources, that seeks human perfection and sees education and schooling as essential to that perfectibility. That goal is high enough to guarantee that most people will not reach it. This means that numerous citizens at any point bemoan the quality of the public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, United States History, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Educational Change,...
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Victor Aimé Huber
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Topics: university, universities, statutes, oxford, bishop, cambridge, chancellor, colleges, corpus...
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The role of the principal as it relates to the education of gifted and talented children in programs and schools has been discussed in a variety of articles related to desired skills, competencies, or characteristics. Yet, the research is neither extensive nor recent, especially pertaining to the role of the elementary administrator of schools for gifted learners. This article presents two different views on the role of the elementary school administrator shared by two principals of private and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Parent Role, Principals, Administrator Role, Elementary Schools,...
I am honored by the articulate comments of the respondents to the questions raised in the lead paper, "Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: Sacrificing the Needs of Gifted Students Does Not Solve Society's Unsolved Problems." These five colleagues have proved themselves to be sensitive to the multiple issues and constituencies involved and highly constructive in their suggestions of steps to be taken to right the wrongs to which I referred. While we may not agree on some of the details...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Public Schools, Student Needs, Disproportionate Representation,...
Schools employ educational technology to comply with pressures for greater accountability and efficiency in conducting operations. Specifically, schools use "management information systems" designed to automate data collection of student attendance, grades, test scores, and so on. These management information systems (MIS) employed widespread use of technology to enable effective and efficient school operations in order to promote school accountability. In this case study, the authors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attendance, Management Information Systems, Educational Technology, Accountability,...
The purpose of this study was to assess a statewide cadre of public school principals in terms of their attraction to the job of district superintendent. Two assumptions underlying the investigation were that (1) participant self-reported capability to become a superintendent impacts participant attraction to the job, and (2) participant satisfaction with facets of their current jobs and their expected satisfaction with those same job facets in the job of superintendent give an indication of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Measurement, Participant Satisfaction, Public Schools, Principals, Career Choice,...
The issue of school leadership instability and how it affects schools and student achievement has been studied. The question of how to predict turnover of the principal remains an unknown. The purpose of this research was to search for possible relationships between certain contextual variables and principal turnover and to test the independent variables as predictors of principal turnover frequency. The study reported here focused on the frequency of principal turnover. The term...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Context...
This article concerns the tragedy of the misuse of power and the power of imagined inferiority. African Americans must lose misconceptions about the majority, heighten understanding about being Black in America and how that makes their children vulnerable to this nation's worst, stop fighting losing battles like affirmative action, and find and maintain a position of power and strength. Here, the reader should note that the full onus of responsibility is on African Americans, and the authors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African Americans, African American Community, Affirmative Action, Misconceptions,...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the district temporarily lost 100% of its students and did not reopen a single school for more than two months. As it became apparent that the district was not prepared to bring the schools back from such a devastating blow, educators began to see a silver lining in Katrina's dark clouds. State School Board member Leslie Jacobs said, "The Diaspora of New Orleans represents the opportunity to rebuild our public school system" (Inskeep, 2005b)....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, State Schools, Public Schools, Boards of Education, Board of Education...
This research study was designed to build grounded theory about the challenges faced by rural superintendents. Participating rural superintendents identified five areas that presented a challenge but that also applied to superintendents in other settings: school law, finance, personnel, government mandates, and district or board policies. Further, these superintendents identified challenges related specifically to the rural setting and to their lack of acculturation to the demands of rural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rural Schools, Focus Groups, School Law, Instructional Leadership, Superintendents,...
A university, medical school, and science center along with numerous K-12 public schools, university departments, local businesses, funded grant projects, and federal, state and private grants all work in concert to produce a unique partnership focusing on outreach to public school teachers and students. This article shares the history, work, vision, and future expectations of this partnership and proposes this model as one which can be replicated elsewhere. (Contains 1 figure.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Medical Schools, Public School Teachers, Partnerships in Education, Colleges, College...
The percentage of variance in student achievement that is explained by student SES--"poverty's power rating," as some call it--tends to be less among smaller schools than among larger schools. Smaller schools, we are told, are able to somehow disrupt the association between SES and student achievement. Using eighth-grade data for 215 public schools in Maine, I explored the hypothesis that this finding is in part a statistical artifact of the lower reliability of school-aggregated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Poverty, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, School...
The purpose of this study was to describe the transition implementation experienced by rural elementary school district students entering the ninth grade at an independent school district, and to describe the ties to the school that exist among these same ninth grade students. This qualitative research involved interviewing 11 ninth grade students, six rural elementary school district counselors and/or administrators, and one independent school district counselor. Conclusions of the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Student Mobility, Rural Schools, School Districts,...
School variables, such as school size and school location, matter. School size and location impact many areas of education, including the characteristics of the school, curriculum, and post-school outcomes. Research reveals that students in rural schools face many personal and education hardships--from living in poverty to having less opportunity and sophistication in technology. Rural schools also have fewer course offerings. While rural schools are a unique, urban and rural schools may be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Poverty, School Size, School Location, Institutional...
The research presented in this article is just a step in the arduous task of defining the legacy of globalization on education as cultures are forced into new association via an international economic agenda. United States-Mexican interchanges have developed as a result of the encouragement for global economic activity provided by the increase in open trade during the last decades of the twentieth century. The economic changes engendered by the global activities are monitored and documented to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Global Approach,...
Service-learning is a wide-spread educational strategy in K-16 education. Currently 64% of all public schools and 83% of public high schools have community service. Researchers have proclaimed the many benefits of service learning in terms of student empowerment, but does it have the power to create a counter-hegemony that provides an alternative worldview to transform society? In this literature review, the author examines the effectiveness and limitations of service-learning practices and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Student Empowerment, Multicultural Education, Citizenship...
Statistics from a number of surveys indicate there is a high rate of economic and financial illiteracy in the United States. Several other studies have pointed out that problems related to the widespread lack of economic and financial understanding have serious consequences on the future economic well-being of many citizens. Financial and economic illiteracy may be traced to a lack of schooling in basic economic and financial principles. This article discusses an evaluation of achievement...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Decision Making, Money Management, Illiteracy, Surveys, Well Being, Achievement...
Few topics evoke more emotion than how to discipline children in public schools. And not many people are neutral in their views toward corporal punishment. Surprisingly, the United States stands almost alone on its position regarding the legality of corporal punishment. Among thirty-five industrialized countries, only the United States and the Outback regions of Australia do not ban this disciplinary technique. And other than its use in public education, corporal punishment is banned in most...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, State Legislation, School Districts, Foreign Countries, Punishment,...
As amply documented by "evangelical/liberal" Jim Wallis in his new "God's Politics", any country can be profoundly improved by voices of faith, hope, and love whose appeals are to reason, conscience, and civility, and who have avoided the entrapments of partisanship. Among such voices have been those of Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Mohandas Gandhi, and John Paul II. The "high wall of separation" metaphor was written into federal law only with the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Jews, Privatization, Federal Legislation, State Church Separation, Public Schools,...
In the last two decades the proportion of children of color in public schools in the U.S. has increased to about 40%. However, this has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in teachers of color. Many college and university teaching institutions have attempted to deal with the increase in the number of students of color in the public schools and the lack of minority teaching candidates by increasing the number of courses offered on diversity as part of their teaching programs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, College Students, Public Schools, Multicultural...
The current study is a replication of the author's unpublished dissertation conducted almost twenty years previously in a public school in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Census 2000 indicated a growing cultural diversity in populations entering the Scranton area, however, it continued to show strong evidence of White Ethnic groups. As with the original study, the purpose of the replicated study was to determine White Ethnic children's need for multiethnic education as it was perceived by their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ethnicity, Public Schools, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, White...
The United States system of education is far removed from the historic system of education in many American Indian communities, yet most American Indian students attend state-run public schools, often with little or no input from tribal communities. Something is clearly not working because many American Indian students experience high levels of educational failure and many drop out of school. In this article, the authors present an alternative to the traditional state-run public school for one...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, American Indians, Adolescents, White Students, Teaching Methods,...
Much has been written over the last two decades on the difficulties that many Latino students continue to face in U.S. public schools. In this article, the authors look at some of the most pressing of these problems in a particular middle-school in a Rocky Mountain state (which the authors called "Madison Middle School"). The authors examine these issues from the point of view of a first-year Latino teacher at that school, whom they called "Carlos," through extracts from a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Hispanic Americans, Beginning Teachers, Middle Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Hispanic...
On June 25, 2007, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in "Morse v. Frederick", a long-awaited ruling regarding student speech in public schools. For nearly twenty years, the Supreme Court had been silent on the issue while lower courts attempted to apply the rules announced in previous Supreme Court decisions. It is unclear what impact the "Morse" decision will have on the lower courts and the daily administration of schools. This article provides a brief...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Courts, Court Litigation, Public Schools, Freedom of Speech, Student Rights, Civil...
The author discusses his book "Homeschool: An American History," and offers four primary impetuses for the current status of homeschooling as a political movement. First, he writes, social and political changes of the second half of the twentieth century partnered radical leftists who wanted nothing to do with conventional America and conventional Americans who wanted nothing to do with a country that in their view had sold out to the radical left. Countercultural sensibilities on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Home Schooling, Privacy, Social Change, Political Attitudes, Suburbs, Christianity,...
Despite the ethnic and linguistic diversity found in California's public schools, or because of it, in 1998 voters approved Proposition 227, a ballot initiative designed to dismantle bilingual education programs in the state. By the 2003-2004 school year, the California Department of Education reports that statewide 8,908 teachers were providing primary language instruction to English learners (ELs), down dramatically from the 16,360 teachers who taught in primary language settings just five...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, Speech Communication, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education...
This ethnography of Belvedere, Mississippi black students integrating the high school during Freedom of Choice (1966) posits that school experiences were an important part in the formation of identity in the South during Civil Rights. This article explores the relationship between individual activism existing conjointly and separate from school integration/desegregation by placing actions of two black students within their historical context between the Civil Rights Act (1964) and desegregation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Civil Rights Legislation, Ethnography, African...
Brian Jacob examines challenges faced by urban districts in staffing their schools with effective teachers. He emphasizes that the problem is far from uniform. Teacher shortages are more severe in certain subjects and grades than others, and differ dramatically from one school to another. The Chicago public schools, for example, regularly receive roughly ten applicants for each teaching position. But many applicants are interested in specific schools, and district officials struggle to find...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Salaries, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness,...
Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin examine how salary and working conditions affect the quality of instruction in the classroom. The wages of teachers relative to those of other college graduates have fallen steadily since 1940. Today, average wages differ little, however, between urban and suburban districts. In some metropolitan areas urban districts pay more, while in others, suburban districts pay more. But working conditions in urban and suburban districts differ substantially, with urban...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Qualifications, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Salaries, Student Problems,...
While the challenge of promoting civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions is an ever-present one, there currently seems to be an increased interest in the field of civic education. At the recent Congressional Conferences on Civic Education, the first of five yearly meetings, research reports were presented that document today's youth, by and large, are not taking up the mantle of civic responsibility. Although American political allegiance has relied on religious spirituality, there is a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, Citizenship Education, Religion, State Church Separation, Moral...
Since the emphases of physical education teacher education (PETE) programs can be linked to quality K-12 instruction, embedding Physical Best (PB) materials into existing PETE curricula can be a practical means of addressing the obesity crisis in the public schools. The PB program is a comprehensive, health-related fitness education program that can be implemented in existing K-12 physical education curricula. Upon successful completion of a certification workshop and a written examination,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Assignments, Physical Education, Obesity, Elementary Secondary Education, Physical...
The authors of this article discuss wellness policies in relation to nutrition education. The article describes some of the most interesting national initiatives for engaging students in nutrition education and encouraging healthy eating. For example, programs such as the Vermont FEED program and the Burlington School Food Project involve students in the selection, growth, preparation, and service of the foods offered in their school meals. This article also provides suggestions for how the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nutrition, Wellness, Nutrition Instruction, Federal Legislation, Public Schools, Food...
The divergence between a predominately White teacher education population and a diverse public school system poses this question: how do universities best prepare teacher candidates to teach children of racially and linguistically different backgrounds than their own? Teacher education programs have addressed this issue in a variety of ways, such as requiring multicultural coursework and/or requiring placements in urban schools. States, too, vary with respect to their requirements for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Education Courses, Multicultural Education, Teacher...