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Ferrara, Peter J.; Ferrara, Margaret M. – ERS Spectrum, 2004
When a New York school district found a majority of its middle school students scoring below an acceptable level in four major academic areas, it tried many interventions, including a three-year experiment in single-gender classrooms. Although single-gender classrooms are no longer as common in the United States as in years past, recent…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Attendance Patterns, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Straus, Anne Terry; Valentino, Debra – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
This article concerns eight decades (1920-2000) of community organization in the American Indian community in Chicago. While the trends discussed may be particular to that community or time frame, the authors expect that there are parallels in other urban Indian communities. The Chicago American Indian Center was the first urban Indian center in…
Descriptors: Local History, Females, Urban American Indians, Community Organizations
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Butler, Terry; Ryan, Peter; Chao, Tracy – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2005
Studies in gender have offered many reasons for the differing attitudes and skill levels that male and female undergraduate students possess when it comes to learning technology skills. Male and female students have differing learning styles influenced by such experiential factors as biology, historical inequalities, inconsistent political rights,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Information Technology, Gender Issues
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Estler, Suzanne E., Ed.; Nelson, Laurie J., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2005
This monograph seeks, through a synthesis of existing literature, to understand better how external forces operating through an enterprise on the academic margins can lead institutions and their leaders to make decisions that appear to many observers to make little sense relative to the institution's mission. Through the athletics enterprise, the…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Institutional Mission, Decision Making, Intercollegiate Cooperation
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Crocco, Margaret Smith – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
Findings are presented from research in a teacher education course on diversity and the social studies that takes gender and sexuality as subject matter. Five themes emerge from five years of qualitative data related to teaching the course and following the experiences of graduates attempting to apply their learning to new teaching situations. The…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Homosexuality, Social Studies, Social Attitudes
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Hall, Richard F.; Graham, Richard D.; Hoover, Gail A. – Education and the Law, 2004
Sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in education. With victims of harassment pursuing administrative and judicial redress, an awareness of and a program for response to the sexual harassment issue are good risk management strategies for a private university and its staff, employees, and students. This article examines, first, the two types of…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Universities, Private Colleges, Risk Management
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Gilgoff, Jon – Afterschool Matters, 2007
Jon Gilgoff is the Boys Services Manager of the Youth Justice Institute in Oakland, California, and a former Robert Bowne Foundation Fellow who researched Boyz 2 Men through his work with the Educational Alliance in New York City. Boyz 2 Men aimed to provide a positive alternative to drugs as a means of coping with the multiple challenges young…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Youth Programs, Males, Empowerment
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Kellner, Douglas; Share, Jeff – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
The concept of critical media literacy expands the notion of literacy to include different forms of mass communication and popular culture, as well as deepens the potential of literacy education to critically analyze relationships between media and audiences, information and power. The authors argue that critical media literacy is crucial for…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Literacy Education, Federal Aid, Popular Culture
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Lapping, Claudia – Studies in Higher Education, 2006
This article argues that the analysis of changes in the social position of women needs to distinguish between levels of social practice and psychic subjectification. The argument draws on Lacan's conception of the relationship between subjectivity, desire and sexual difference to describe gendered aspects of subjectivity embedded within the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, College Faculty, Case Studies, Sexual Identity
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Daza, Stephanie Lynn – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
Globalizing trends--underscored by neoliberalism, privatization and imperial legacies--are changing the nature and purpose of education across the world. "With these rules of the capitalist game," a Colombian student argues, "the public university in Latin America has been played." Manifestations of these trends, however, vary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Privatization, Foreign Policy
Page, Bonnie – 1996
Improving communication among and between men and women is an important part of leadership which entails understanding cultural stereotypes related to masculinity and femininity and understanding that all individuals possess a combination of masculine and feminine traits. Leaders should strive to create a new culture where feminine values are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Colleges, Females
Maciel, David R., Ed.; Ortiz, Isidro D., Ed. – 1996
Dubbed the "decade of the Hispanic," the 1980s was instead a period of retrenchment for Chicanos and Chicanas as they continued to confront many issues of earlier years in a more conservative political environment. This book assesses the most significant developments in the conditions and experiences of Chicanas and Chicanos since the…
Descriptors: Activism, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
Koerner, Mari; Mindes, Gayle – 1997
This is a qualitative inquiry based on reciprocal and interactive relationships. Seven associate deans or former associate deans were engaged in conversations about their roles in colleges of education. All are women from five public and two private universities. Through analysis of the conversations, five themes emerged: the role of associate…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies
Sayers, Su, Ed.; Morley, Jim, Ed.; Barnes, Bob, Ed. – 2002
These papers examine concerns about design and technology teaching. There are 14 papers in four parts. Part 1, "Issues of Definition," includes (1) "The Challenge for Design and Technology Education" (Jim Morley); (2) "How Can We Meet the Challenges Posed by a New Model of Practical Scholarship?" (Jim Morley); (3)…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Design, Educational Technology
Katz, Elizabeth G., Ed.; Correia, Maria C., Ed. – 2001
The studies compiled in this book analyze the effects of gender on the well-being of individuals and households in Mexico. Analyses examine gender issues over the life cycle, including education and child labor, adult urban and rural labor participation, and the situation of elderly Mexican men and women. Following an introduction by Elizabeth…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
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