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Hussar, William J.; Bailey, Tabitha M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
"Projections of Education Statistics to 2021" is the 40th report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary degree-granting institutions. This report provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2020" and projections of…
Descriptors: Enrollment Projections, Graduation Rate, Expenditures, Educational Finance
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Hussar, William J.; Bailey, Tabitha M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
"Projections of Education Statistics to 2022" is the 41st report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary degree-granting institutions. This report provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2021" and projections of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
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Hussar, William J.; Bailey, Tabitha M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
"Projections of Education Statistics to 2020" is the 39th report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary degree-granting institutions. This report provides revisions of projections shown in "Projections of Education Statistics to 2019". Included are projections of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, High School Graduates, School Statistics, Enrollment Projections
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Harris, Lois Ruth – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
Internationally, educational stakeholders are concerned with the high levels of student disengagement, evidenced by early school leaving, poor student behaviour, and low levels of academic achievement. The solution, student engagement, is a contested concept, theorised in a variety of different ways within academic literature. To further…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Participation
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Gengarelly, Lara M.; Abrams, Eleanor D. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
Teaching students how to conduct authentic scientific inquiry is an essential aspect of recent science education reform efforts. Our National Science Foundation-funded GK-12 program paired science graduate students--fellows--with secondary science teachers in order to enhance inquiry-based instruction. This research examined the roles of the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Culture, Educational Change, Science Teachers
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Beghetto, Ronald A. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine prospective middle and secondary teachers' preferences for unique versus relevant student responses during classroom discussions. Results indicate that, on average, prospective teachers (N = 70) preferred relevance to uniqueness in student responses. In addition, results of regression analysis indicate that…
Descriptors: Creativity, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Rong, Xue Lan, Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar" knowledge. The chapters in this anthology…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian American Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Achievement
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Osisioma, Irene U.; Moscovici, Hedy – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2008
The need to equip science teachers with knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to face the challenges of teaching science through inquiry informed this study, which analyzed the secondary science intern teachers' beliefs about inquiry before, during, and following a series of 2 consecutive science methods courses in an attempt to document the…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Science Teachers, Urban Schools, Beliefs
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Hussar, William J.; Bailey, Tabitha M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
"Projections of Education Statistics to 2018" is the 37th report in a series begun in 1964. It includes statistics on elementary and secondary schools and degree-granting institutions. Included are projections of enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures to the year 2018. This is the first edition of the "Projections of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, High School Graduates, Methods, Statistics
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Blinn-Pike, Lynn – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
Purpose: The overall purpose of this exploratory research was to better understand rural educators' feelings about school-based sex education in order to foster better communication and collaboration between prevention researchers and rural teachers and administrators. In order to accomplish this purpose, the research question asked "How does…
Descriptors: Proximity, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Sex Education
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin; Maccini, Paula – Remedial and Special Education, 2007
A random sample of 167 secondary special and general educators who taught math to students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) and learning disabilities (LD) responded to a mail survey. The survey examined teacher perceptions of (a) definition of math; (b) familiarity with course topics; (c) effectiveness of methods courses; (d)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Familiarity, Educational Strategies, Special Education Teachers
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Stylianides, Gabriel J.; Stylianides, Andreas J.; Philippou, George N. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2007
There is a growing effort to make "proof" central to all students' mathematical experiences across all grades. Success in this goal depends highly on teachers' knowledge of proof, but limited research has examined this knowledge. This paper contributes to this domain of research by investigating preservice elementary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Validity, Mathematical Logic, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education
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Sadler, Troy D.; Amirshokoohi, Aidin; Kazempour, Mahsa; Allspaw, Kathleen M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This study explored teacher perspectives on the use of socioscientific issues (SSI) and on dealing with ethics in the context of science instruction. Twenty-two middle and high school science teachers from three US states participated in semi-structured interviews, and researchers employed inductive analyses to explore emergent patterns relative…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Profiles, Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers
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Husu, Jukka – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2004
This paper advocates the argument that philosophical and empirical modes of inquiry are seldom brought together to gain a better understanding of pedagogical ethics in the natural settings of school life. Here, it is hoped that this kind of combination provides interpretative lenses for the deliberation of pedagogical practices. The paper aims to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teacher Responsibility, Ethics, Moral Values
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Wilson, Elaine; Demetriou, Helen – Curriculum Journal, 2007
This article brings together an overview of ideas about teacher learning from both teacher education and workplace learning literature, and examines what and how newly qualified secondary school teachers learn in the early years of their career. We discuss the types of knowledge new teachers encounter and present a typology of teacher learning.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education
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