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Nuo Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, which teach content knowledge in English and a partner language, have shown promise in attaining academic achievement, bilingualism/biliteracy, and sociocultural competence. Recently, scholars have argued for adding critical consciousness as a foundational goal to challenge the hegemonic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education Programs
M. Garrett Delavan Ed.; Juan A. Freire Ed.; Kate Menken Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This volume proposes solutions to the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education by examining how it operates across diverse school and community contexts. It brings together studies in a number of areas including instruction, curriculum development, classroom interaction, school leadership, parent and community engagement,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development, Instructional Leadership
Perry R. Rettig; Toni M. Bailey – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Parents want to work with their children's teachers to help them succeed in school. "What Brain Research Says about Student Learning" provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child's brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2022
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Student Voice for the New School Year." Contents include: (1) LGBTQ+ Inclusive…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Inclusion, Equal Education, Student Needs
Epstein, Kitty Kelly – Peter Lang New York, 2012
The revised edition of "A Different View of Urban Schools" updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides new insights on the origin of urban education issues; the route to a diverse and effective teaching force; and the impact of federal legislation and corporate involvement on urban schools. Dr. Epstein's…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Schools, Civil Rights, Critical Theory
Coyle, Jennifer; Morrison, Mary; Thomas, Della – pepnet 2, 2017
In 2011, pepnet 2 launched the Deaf Learner Initiative (DLI). The goals of this initiative were to examine the existing paradigms, programs, pedagogy and relevant research related to the educational and vocational needs of deaf learners. The DLI was comprised of a variety of activities including the Deaf Learner Symposium, the creation of three…
Descriptors: Deafness, Young Adults, Hearing Impairments, Evidence Based Practice
Silver, Debbie – Corwin, 2012
As teachers and parents, our job is to teach students to tackle challenges rather than avoid them. Award-winning teacher and best-selling author Debbie Silver addresses the relationship between student motivation and risking failure, calling failure a temporary "glitch" that provides valuable learning opportunities. She explains motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Success, Failure, Lifelong Learning
Carris, Joanne M. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
"Ghosts of No Child Left Behind" politically situates curriculum within a historically and critically informed context, to understand the structural forces that have contributed to the creation of a population of adolescents who read below a third grade level. The book then proposes a reconceptualization of literacy curriculum within a…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Federal Legislation, Adolescents, Literacy
Hartmann, Elizabeth – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2011
It is essential that children who are deaf-blind have learning experiences that improve their quality of life. Unfortunately, even when educational teams work together to create individualized education programs, these students do not always have full and equal opportunities to learn. This issue of "Practice Perspectives" describes the basics of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Blindness, Individualized Education Programs, Deaf Blind
Marques, Susana C.; Lopez, Shane J. – Communique, 2011
This article begins with a 12-year-old girl's story that serves as an example of how "caring coaches" in the schools contribute greatly in helping schools become hopeful places for children. Helping students become more hopeful is rewarding for the students, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, parents, and other caring adults. Twenty years…
Descriptors: Caring, School Psychologists, Motivation, Achievement Need
Pellegrini, Anthony D., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2010
The role of play in human development has long been the subject of controversy. Despite being championed by many of the foremost scholars of the twentieth century, play has been dogged by underrepresentation and marginalization in literature across the scientific disciplines. "The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play" marks the first attempt…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Theories
Yanoshak, Nancy, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Founded in 1966, and premised on the idea that motivated sixteen-year-olds are capable of college work, Bard College at Simon's Rock is an educational "experiment" from the sixties that has endured and prospered. "Educating Outside the Lines" looks at Simon's Rock as a pioneer of the early college movement that has begun to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment
Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Darnell, Adam J.; Alvarez-Jimenez, Anabel – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
A path model based in a theory of social capital was tested with Latino middle school (n = 195, 58% female, average 13.8 years of age) and high school students (n = 129, 64% female, average 16.8 years of age). Most participants (77%) were immigrants (predominantly from Mexico). Questionnaires assessed student perceptions of parent involvement,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Adjustment, Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students
Bower, Laura; Klecka, Cari – Teaching Education, 2009
Recent debates regarding same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian adoption highlight the role of schools as sociopolitical institutions. Accordingly, teachers operating within social norms have considerable influence through their interactions with students and their families. Previous research points to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Child Rearing, Sexual Orientation, Parent School Relationship
Schultz, Brian D., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book embraces the idea of listening to and learning from students. Although many educational theorists have long argued that incorporating children's perspectives about teaching and curriculum has the potential for increasing students' interest and participation in learning, their radical perspectives are still ignored or dismissed in theory…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching (Occupation), School Activities, Educational Research