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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1985
In addition to being one of the largest states in the country, California is also known for innovation and change. Reform in California often presages change throughout the country. The views of California teachers are, therefore, of special Significance to policymakers. This survey examines the 1985 views of California teachers for strengthening…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Kindergarten, Public Schools
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005
Several years after the passage of NCLB, there are persistently low-performing schools in every state that face increasingly strong consequences for failing to improve student achievement sufficiently. Schools failing to make AYP for five consecutive years must engage in restructuring to improve student learning. Districts have several options for…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Regulation
Washington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2002
This report summarizes some of the parent and community involvement activities for AISD during the 2001-2002 school year.
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Community Involvement, School Districts, Parent School Relationship
Lancaster, James – College Student Affairs Journal, 2005
The career arc for many in student affairs involves an uncertain journey. Finding balance between the professional and personal life can be challenging. For some, changing careers in mid-stream, an emerging trend in some facets of the American working landscape, offers possibilities. For others, retiring after a full career and working part-time…
Descriptors: Career Change, Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Family Work Relationship
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Van Sluijs, E. M. F.; Van Poppel, M. N. M.; Twisk, J. W. R.; Brug, J.; Van Mechelen, W. – Health Education Research, 2005
PACE (Physician-based Assessment and Counseling for Exercise) is an individualized theory-based minimal intervention strategy aimed at the enhancement of regular physical activity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a PACE intervention applied by general practitioners (GPs) on potential determinants of physical activity. A…
Descriptors: Intervention, Physical Activities, Self Efficacy, Physical Activity Level
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Tolppanen, Bradley P.; Slough, Marlene – Journal of Access Services, 2003
This article presents the experience of Circulation Services at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, during a 31-month relocation to temporary facilities while the building was undergoing renovation. The move to temporary locations presented new challenges and required unique solutions. Issues such as the rationale for the move to the…
Descriptors: Library Services, Geographic Location, Relocation, Library Development
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Guo, Baorong; Bricout, John C.; Huang, Jin – Disability & Society, 2005
This paper explores the use and impact of the Internet by disabled people in China, informed by the social model of disability. Based on survey data from 122 disabled individuals across 25 provinces in China, study findings suggest that there is an emerging digital divide in the use of Internet amongst the disability community in China. Internet…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Internet, User Needs (Information)
Butcher, Andrew; McGrath, Terry – International Education Journal, 2004
This paper considers the pastoral care needs of international students in New Zealand. Using the relatively new Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students as its departure point, this paper critically evaluates the assertion that there is a crisis in New Zealand's export education industry. It does this through considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Financial Needs, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs
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Lewis, Tammy L. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This paper explores efforts by Denison University to shift its service-learning efforts from service based on a charity model toward service based on collaboration and community-based social change. The author describes the institution's process of adaptation and a series of service-learning courses that draw upon participatory action research,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Community Development, Action Research, Ethnography
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Jakubowski, Lisa Marie; Burman, Patrick – Teaching Sociology, 2004
The opportunities, challenges, and lessons of the pilot phase of a community development program in a small liberal arts college are presented and conceptualized in this paper. We based this program on an experiential learning model derived from Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and Stephen Brookfield's notion of critically responsive learning. A…
Descriptors: Community Development, Critical Theory, Experiential Learning, Teaching Models
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Hostetter, Christina J. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
This article explores the uses, practicality, and problems involved in creating online finding aids by state-funded university archivists across the nation. It examines various aspects of online finding aids such as financial considerations, its importance as a research tool, timelines, demographics, and use. The more technical side is also…
Descriptors: Metadata, Access to Information, Documentation, Archives
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Webb, Ian – Australian Educational Computing, 2005
This author states that he feels privileged to have been able to contribute to a number of teacher professional associations since the early 1980s at both the local and national levels. His involvement with the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) was for a period in excess of 18 years as the Computer Education Group of the ACT…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Technology Education
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Pierson, Melissa E.; Cozart, Alysa – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2005
This longitudinal research study explores preservice teachers' developing vision of technology in teaching and learning. Participants include eight teacher education students enrolled in one of three consecutive educational technology courses. Qualitative methods were used to analyze data, and tentative assertions have emerged related to a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
Hatala, John-Paul – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
The present study sought to add to our knowledge about forces that negatively affect an individual's decision to start a business by identifying barriers they encounter. By identifying barriers to starting a business, we stand to learn much about how an individual identifies, confronts, and responds to decisions which may seem to be beyond their…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Entrepreneurship, Barriers, Business
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Johnson, Keith V.; Watson, Elwood D. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2005
The Black scientist in America is historically an anomaly and currently a statistical rarity. In 1984 Blacks accounted for only 2.3%, or 90,500, of the 3,995,000 employed scientists and engineers (Kusmer, 1991) Even now, in the 21st century, Blacks were 11.3% of the labor force, but only 4.2% of natural scientists, 7.6% of math and computer…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Intellectual Property, Educational Technology, Scientists
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