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Ramey, M. Deanna – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Head Start is a federally funded program providing comprehensive social and early education services to children from low-income households and their families. Seeking to boost outcomes of Head Start students, in 1998 Congress amended Head Start's statement of purpose, specifying school readiness as the program's top priority. This mission change…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income
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Fleming, Ali; Roble, Amanda; Yao, Xiangquan; Brosnan, Patricia – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
We traced the impact of a sequence of five research-based professional development sessions on a cohort of mathematics teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching. The sessions focused on task design and implementation as a means of building teachers' pedagogical capacity. Findings revealed that teachers' pedagogical knowledge pertaining to…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation, Teaching Skills
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Richardson, Virginia; Roosevelt, Dirck – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
In this article, the authors explore the ideas that revolve around improving the quality of the teacher workforce through the pursuit of two related goals: (1) teachers who are hired by school districts will have as beginning professionals the acquired knowledge, habits of mind, and skills necessary to meet the needs of the students within the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education