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Juliet Squire; Marisa Mission; Paul Beach; Katrina Boone – Bellwether, 2024
Since 2021, Bellwether has conducted research on flexible learning options, including interviews with 85 policymakers, state administrators, funders, navigation organizations, technology providers, and many others. The goal was to address inquiries in a nascent and fast-growing field, such as how families and students access learning within a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Individualized Instruction, Educational Environment
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Tushman, Michael L.; Anderson, Philip – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Technological effects on environmental conditions are analyzed using longitudinal data from the minicomputer, cement, and airline industries. Technology evolves through periods of incremental change punctuated by breakthroughs that enhance or destroy the competence of firms. Competence-destroying discontinuities increase environmental turbulence;…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Environmental Influences, Industry, Organizational Theories
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Borden, Richard J. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1985
Compared attitudes of individuals who engage in such environmentally responsible activities as recycling, energy conservation, or consumer boycotting. Results show that personal commitment to environmentally corrective behaviors is importantly determined by the person's evaluative response to widely publicized environmental topics. Theoretical and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
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Jackson, Edgar L. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1985
Examines relationships between aspects of perceptions of energy resource options and attitudes to the environment, technology, and the quality of life. Survey results suggest that preferences for a decentralized soft energy path were stated by students expressing an "ecocentric" worldview while "technocentrists" opted for a…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Energy, Energy Conservation, Environmental Education
Science News, 1989
Presented is a review of important science news stories of 1989 as reported in the pages of "Science News." Topics include anthropology, astronomy, behavior, biology, biomedicine, chemistry, environment, food science, math and computers, paleobiology, physics, science and society, space sciences, and technology. (CW)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anthropology, Astronomy, Behavior
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Haberer, Joseph, Ed. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 1990
Presented is a bibliography of periodical literature on the following topics: the impact of science and technology, art and architecture, biography, computers, international science and technology, and development and modernization. Also presented is an annotated bibliography of children's books, books on economics, the environment, and the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Bibliographies, Biographies
Sacks, Arthur B., Ed. – 1984
The first section of this document contains definitional papers prepared by three sections of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAEE). They are: (1) "The Challenges of K-12 Environmental Education" (Harold Hungerford and Trudi Volk); (2) "'Environmental Studies': Towards a Definition" (Royal Harde);…
Descriptors: Church Role, Computer Simulation, Definitions, Economics
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Stout, Zoe – Social Studies Journal, 1991
Explores, in a reprint of the 1989 Junior Division National History Day winning paper, the history of some technological developments in Pennsylvania's coal mining industry. Examines the "breaker boys," youths who sorted coal in severe working conditions. Introduces Ellen Webster Palmer, who addressed the problem by organizing the Boys'…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Coal