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The Implementation of Smartphones and Tablet Technologies into the Classroom by Selected New York State Public School Leaders
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DeMallie, Richard R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The popularity and use of handheld technologies cannot be denied in today's society. "300,000 first generation iPads were sold before midnight on their first day of sales and an additional 500,000 first generation iPads was sold by the end of that week" (Waters, 2010). The demand forced the iPad's sales to be delayed in Europe (Banister,…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Public Schools, State Schools
Deepening Understandings of School Life: Action Research for Preservice Teachers
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Stacki, Sandra – Curriculum and Teaching, 2012
Two groups of preservice graduate students conducted action research projects in collaboration with a faculty member at two different minority middle schools in New York. In a qualitative approach, one research team explored an effective after school program for achieving, but at risk students. The other sought to understand perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Action Research, Graduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship
A Cross-Case Study of the Impact of Organizational Change through the Diffusion of the Classrooms for the Future Initiative
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Slamecka, Brian Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2006, Governor Edward Rendell announced a three-year, $200 million Classrooms for the Future program to provide technology and technology support to schools across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, beginning in the 2006-2007 school year. The purpose of this research study is to examine the change process of the diffusion of technology within…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Change, Adoption (Ideas)
A Qualitative Policy Study of the Least Restrictive Environment Provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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Hasazi, Susan Brody; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1994
This qualitative policy study of 6 states and 12 school districts identified 6 factors that influenced implementation of least restrictive environment provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Factors included financing, the state-local context, organization, advocacy, implementors, and knowledge and values. The study…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
"I Don't Give a Hoot If Somebody Is Going To Pay me $3600:" Local School District Reactions to Kentucky's High Stakes Accountability Program.
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Kannapel, Patricia J.; And Others – 1996
This paper places Kentucky's accountability program in the national context, and then describes how educators in four rural Kentucky school districts reacted to the program in the initial years of its implementation. The information is drawn from a qualitative study of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in these four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Transition Policies, Practices, and Promises: Lessons from Three States.
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Furney, Katharine S.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1997
A policy study (1992-94) investigated how three exemplary states have implemented transition services for youth with disabilities. Document evaluation and interviews (N=74) with key policymakers and implementors resulted in identifying seven themes that contributed to the successful initiation and continuation of transition policies, practices,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship