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Amanda Harrison; Rene Burress – Knowledge Quest, 2024
Building relationships is a crucial part of being a school librarian. But the first relationship the authors states school librarians will want to build is within themselves as a professional. According to the author, knowing yourself and your core values can help when times get tough or if your first tries at a relationship are rebuffed.…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Interpersonal Relationship, Stakeholders
Patrick Mortiere; Melissa Johnson; Brooke DeRenzis; Jeannine LaPrad – National Skills Coalition, 2025
This policy playbook presents a comprehensive set of strategies aimed at empowering state policymakers, governors, and state agency leaders to cultivate a strong, diverse, and multigenerational workforce capable of driving the development and maintenance of our nation's new infrastructure. By implementing the following recommendations, state…
Descriptors: Empowerment, State Officials, State Agencies, State Government
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Warf, Barney – Journal of Geography, 2019
Digital divides--uneven patterns of access--are a major feature of cyberspace. This article opens by noting that most students are digital natives who grew up with the Internet. Second, it summarizes digital divides, including global patterns, rural--urban differences, ethnic and gender discrepancies, and the role of smartphones. The third section…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Internet, Rural Urban Differences
Backes, Ben; Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael; Xiang, P. Brett; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative micro data from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities -- effectively debt -- owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Age Differences
Fry, Richard; Parker, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
A Pew Research Center analysis of 2018 Census Bureau data finds that post-Millennials (ages 6 to 21) are the most racially and ethnically diverse generation of Americans, and they are entering college at a higher rate than generations of the past. Their parents are more likely to have college degrees and have a higher median income than the…
Descriptors: Demography, Profiles, Census Figures, Children
Grotophorst, Julie – School Business Affairs, 2011
For the first time in history, four distinct generations are sharing the same workspace. Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Generation Y (the Millennials) are all bringing very different life experiences, expectations, and value systems to the work table. How do leaders bridge the gap among these generations and provide common ground on which…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Baby Boomers, Generational Differences, Age Groups
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Feng, Zhao – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Young people represent the future, and youth is an eternal topic. In the 1970s when the American anthropologist Margaret Mead published her famous work "Generation Gap," research on generations gained sudden popularity worldwide, and ever since the 1980s when "Generation Gap" was brought to China, research by scholars in this…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Youth, Generational Differences
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Guo, Zhang; Yang, Ping; Wei, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
A young person born in the 1980s said jokingly to a reporter, "No, you are a post-90s. I am a post-80s, not a post-90s, nor a post-85s." In his view, he was not of the same generation as the post-90s, who are a few years younger than him. They were egotists, selfish, obstinate, and hedonistic, lacked any sense of responsibility, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, College Students, Higher Education
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Wei, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
In keeping with the increasing importance of technology, the "war of words" between those born in the 1980s and those born in the 1990s has been largely fought through online videos, blogs, and Internet forums. This article also reveals how each new generation is eager to take its place at the center stage and how young generations…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Higher Education, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Herman, Jana Morgan – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2012
Marc Prensky coined the term "digital native" in 2001 to describe those who have grown up with a constant interaction of technology, including television, video games, and the Internet (Prensky, 2001). For these people, many of them now in their twenties, life has always included the presence of screens--televisions, cell phones, iPods, video…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Access to Information, Adolescents, Generational Differences
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Evans, Retta R.; Forbes, Laura – College Student Journal, 2012
A new generation of consumer and tech savvy college students have forever altered the method and degree of interaction between faculty and student. The purpose of the article is to describe the challenges of mentoring a new generation of health educators. The authors will summarize the literature on generational group characteristics that may…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Health Education, Mentors, Labor Market
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Davidson, Stephanie R.; Boals-Gilbert, Beverly – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2010
Few people are willing to admit that senior adults and young children share many common characteristics, including: (1) changes in development; (2) need for companionship; and (3) the desire to be understood. These two groups are connected mostly through direct interaction with middle-aged adults. One very practical way to build a greater sense of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Age Differences, Child Development, Child Care Centers