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Wilson, Steven F. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2005
The proliferation of high-quality independent charter schools is constrained by the shortage of founders committed to evidence-based school designs and possessing the broad-ranging skills to make good on their audacious plans. The time and energies of such exceptional leaders are deployed over years in building schools that rarely reach more than…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Charter Schools, Boards of Education, Governance
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Borthwick, Arlene C.; Pierson, Melissa E.; Anderson, Cindy L.; Morris, Joyce L.; Lathem, Sandra A.; Parker, Holly Buckland – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2004
Effective learning communities connect members so that they can share knowledge and experience. This article examines the process and outcomes of building learning communities to increase faculty and preservice teacher use of technology through PT[superscript 3] funding at three institutions: National-Louis University, the University of Houston,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Communities of Practice, Educational Strategies
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Gustafson, Kimberly – Planning for Higher Education, 2004
Today's college students believe that learning technologies are necessary tools that should be integrated into their course work. However, faculty have not yet responded to these expectations. This qualitative study engaged approximately 100 faculty and undergraduate students at the University of Washington in focus groups to explore this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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O'Connor, Justen P.; Temple, Viviene A. – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
Movement-seeking behaviours should be fostered in young children to maximise their potential to adopt and maintain a physically active lifestyle. This study examined the constraints and facilitators to meaningful movement for children in family day care. The views of key stakeholders (caregivers, parents, and coordination unit staff) were examined…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Focus Groups, Caregivers
Pardhan, Almina – International Education Journal, 2005
Schooling for girls is a relatively recent process in Booni Valley, a remote mountainous village in Chitral District, Pakistan. It is impacting greatly upon the lives of the women. This study has taken an ethnographic perspective and has assumed that an understanding of women's schooling requires a detailed, in-depth account of women's actual…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Womens Education
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Fahraeus, Eva R. – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
Distance education has been offered to young students in Australia for about 100 years. Recently, information and communication technology has been introduced as a means to improve communication, but not all remote students have access to this new technology. This has made it difficult to arrange collaborative learning for distance-education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
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Kiarie, Mary W. – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
Until the nineteen hundreds, people with disabilities did not receive formal educational services in Kenya. This paper discusses available educational services for individuals with visual impairments in terms of their forms, materials provided, and educational placements. Areas of most progress are discussed along with obstacles that stand in the…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Conca, Lydia M.; Schechter, Carlota P.; Castle, Sharon – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
Elementary teachers engaged in weekly conversations about their students' writing. Conversations were guided by a protocol that began with an assessment of students' writing samples and then moved to the generation of instructional ideas. The conversations were analyzed for what the teachers talked about and the extent to which they generated…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Familiarity, Instructional Effectiveness, Alignment (Education)
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Abbott, Chris; Grosbois, Muriel; Klein, Mickie – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
Case studies of email and video conferencing projects between partners in educational institutions in England and France are presented as a means of identifying the key issues that lead to the success of such activities. The writers, all of whom have a long history of being involved in such projects with schoolchildren and teachers, then consider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Comparative Education, Case Studies
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Ball, Arnetha F.; Alim, H. Samy – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
For scholars of literacy and educational linguistics, the years 2004 and beyond have given them cause to not only revisit racial issues 50 years after "Brown v. Board of Education," but also to revisit 25 years of language and racial politics since "the Martin Luther King Black English case." This chapter discusses what needs…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Black Dialects, Linguistics, Court Litigation
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Lucas, Leyland M. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to look at the issue of culture's role in knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs). Studies of MNCs have hinted at the importance of culture to the performance of subsidiaries. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions of power distance, individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Corporations, Cultural Influences, Context Effect
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Trenholm, Brian; Mirenda, Pat – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
This exploratory survey was conducted to gain a detailed understanding of the home and community literacy experiences of children, adolescents and adults with Down syndrome. The data were collected from 224 parents/guardians across Canada who were asked to indicate literacy goals and priorities for their children with Down syndrome, the literacy…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Down Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
Zero to Three (J), 2006
In too many communities, child care, health care, and other family supports and services are rarely coordinated and are too frequently determined by where families live, their level of income, and their community connections. Policy initiatives at the local, state, and federal level influence how communities are able to develop more…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Public Policy, Educational Change
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Logue, Jennifer – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2006
Implicated in contributing to the problems youth today face in trying to claim an education, an informed active participation in the social order, dominant discourses of desire in education foreclose formal, critical analysis of social structures that construct, police, entreat, and deny desire. Looking at the ways in which desire is encoded in…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Discourse Analysis, Sex Education, Curriculum
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Hamburger, Susan; Charles, Jane Veronica – Journal of Archival Organization, 2006
In a desire for automated collection control, archival repositories are adopting barcoding from their library and records center colleagues. This article discusses the planning, design, and implementation phases of barcoding. The authors focus on reasons for barcoding, security benefits, in-room circulation tracking, potential for gathering…
Descriptors: Archives, Library Services, Library Automation, Facility Inventory
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