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Direct linkCrawley, Rosemary – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
This article describes and evaluates information gained from a programme of workshops that took place during the late 1990s for approximately one hundred black women who originated from the African diaspora and worked in the social housing sector. The programme was designed to utilise group working in order to promote feminist thinking and…
Descriptors: Females, Career Development, Workshops, Blacks
Clark, Amy Aparicio; Dorris, Amanda – Principal Leadership, 2006
A growing body of research confirms that parents have a profound impact on their children's educational attainment, particularly in the secondary grades. Yet many Latino parents, particularly those of first-generation college students, lack information and knowledge about what their children need to prepare for college and are less likely to help…
Descriptors: Parents, Educational Attainment, College Preparation, Partnerships in Education
Drake, Frederick D.; Brown, Sarah Drake – History Teacher, 2003
This essay aims to provide beginning and experienced history teachers as well as history teaching methods professors with a helpful strategy designed to improve students' knowledge of historical content and competence in historical thinking. It introduces a systematic approach to the use of primary sources which emphasizes the "doing" of history,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Methods Courses, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Winkelman, Paul – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
The development of an engineering curriculum assumes a body of knowledge that students, as future engineers, will need to know. Students acquire this body of knowledge through lectures, laboratories, projects and assignments and other means. The question then arises, how does one select the content and processes that are appropriate for the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Curriculum, Selection, Ethics
Price, Betsy – Principal Leadership, 2005
In recent years, principals have had to act as referees for a new type of match between teachers and technology staff members, affectionately known as the "techies." This time the match is for the control of the technology-integrated classroom. Creating technology-integrated classrooms often puts the interests of teachers in opposition to the…
Descriptors: Principals, Classroom Techniques, Classification, Educational Technology
Demaine, Jack – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
This paper is concerned with the longstanding question of policy for those referred to nearly half a century ago by the Crowther Report as the "bottom half"; those mainly working class children who, in a sense, are "selected for failure". The issue of selection is a matter of concern in countries around the world and has been…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, At Risk Students
Baker, Dale; Leary, Rosemary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
The purpose of this study was to try to determine what influences girls to choose science. Forty girls were interviewed in Grades 2, 5, 8, 11 using a semistructured protocol. The interview focused on feelings about science, science careers, peer and parental support, and how science is taught. To determine whether their responses were based on…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Social Environment, Females, Science Careers
Williams, Nancy L.; Bauer, Patricia T. – Reading Teacher, 2006
The current accountability movement has focused on academic achievement but has circumvented issues of motivation and authentic reading materials. Many educators have challenged this direction of the reading curriculum, particularly criticizing the narrowing of the curriculum, the continued focus of teaching to the tests, the overemphasis on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Role, Teacher Collaboration, Cooperative Planning
Watt, Helen M. G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This study examined the continued gender imbalance in mathematics participation in senior high, which has implications for adolescents' future careers. It confirms persisting greater male participation in maths-related educational and occupational choices among this sample of Australian youth. Gendered course-taking in maths, along with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Females, Careers
Thomson, Pat; Gunter, Helen – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
Schools in England are now being encouraged to "personalise" the curriculum and to consult students about teaching and learning. This article reports on an evaluation of one high school which is working hard to increase student subject choice, introduce integrated curriculum in the middle years and to improve teaching and learning while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Student Research, Integrated Curriculum
Download full textCook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators, 2007
"Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) Making a Game of Math: AAE Affiliate Motivates…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Games, United States History, Competition
Byrd, Sheila – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2007
For many people committed to strong academic standards, the "advanced" high school courses offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement program and, increasingly, the Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) represent the curricular gold standard for secondary education. Admissions directors and…
Descriptors: English Literature, English Instruction, World History, High Schools
Greene, G. Kennedy; Huerta, Luis A.; Richards, Craig – Journal of Education Finance, 2007
Most research on the association between school resources and student outcomes has concentrated on finances as measured in dollars. This study takes a fresh look at the issue by focusing on the allocation of real resources, defined as the personnel and materiel used to increase student learning, which are more relevant measures of a school's…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Administrators, State Boards of Education
Flewelling, Janet – 1991
The process used for evaluating computer software before it reaches the market may not be reliable or appropriate for the end user. School boards often develop their own evaluation procedures for teachers, but they may also be too technical, too long, or irrelevant to the teacher's purposes, and they may be too general for the discipline area in…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
