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Rubinstein-Avila, Eliane – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2017
We are currently living in an era of mass global migration. Therefore, it is a pertinent time to reflect on the challenges and the possibilities inherent in educating immigrant and refugee children. Because of the importance immigration has played in the history of the United States, it may be assumed that American K-12 teachers and school…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Administrator Role, Knowledge Level
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Beyer, Carl – American Educational History Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to review four educational issues introduced by this author in previous articles (Beyer 2004, 2015) that faced the Kingdom of Hawai'i in order to investigate the educational policies taken to address these issues by the White Architects of Hawaiian education. The American Protestant missionaries, who arrived in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Whites, Clergy
O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Sanchez, Victoria; Beach, Kristen D.; Bocian, Kathleen M. – Grantee Submission, 2017
This research replicates an earlier study (O'Connor, Beach, Sanchez, Bocian, & Flynn, 2015) and extends it by shifting instructional responsibility from researchers to special education teachers, who implemented reading instruction that included multisyllabic word decoding, academic vocabulary, and three comprehension strategies (generating…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Grade 8
Snook, David L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This exploratory study combined the process of modified analytic induction with a mixed methods approach to analyze various factors that affected or might have affected participating teachers' decisions to use or not use various primary source based teaching strategies to teach historical thinking skills. Four participating eighth and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, United States History, War, History Instruction
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Dana Huff – English Journal, 2017
According to the author, as our abilities to combine image and text become more sophisticated and ubiquitous, digital storytelling is a powerful means for sharing those stories. Digital storytelling is a perfect way to remix stories. To present American literature as relevant to students' lives, the author rewrote their curriculum using backwards…
Descriptors: United States Literature, Curriculum Development, Relevance (Education), Story Telling
Isaacs, Julia B.; Lou, Cary; Hahn, Heather; Lauderback, Eleanor; Quakenbush, Caleb; Steuerle, C. Eugene – Urban Institute, 2019
Public spending on children aims to support their healthy development and help them fulfill their human potential. As such, federal spending on children is an investment in the nation's future. To inform policymakers, children's advocates, and the general public about how public funds are spent on children, this 13th edition of the annual…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Federal Aid, Children, Budgets
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Busey, Christopher L. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
Infusing content about elections has not been an issue for social studies teachers, but rather contextualizing race discourse in discussions of elections has served as a curricular cessation for social studies teachers. This is especially concerning given that teachers' attempts to remain neutral with regards to race consequently results in a lack…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Political Issues, Elections
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Pinkney, Adrianne R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Participatory citizenship among Black citizens in the United States has always been tied to access to quality education. In this literature review, I draw on scholarship analyzing the experiences of Black youth in the 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries. I compare the historic and contemporary challenges facing Black citizens' active…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, African American Students, Barriers
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Whitaker, Westry; Hardee, Sheri C.; Johnson, Lauren C.; McFaden, Kelly L. – Teaching Education, 2018
This qualitative study discusses one Southern college of education and its engagement with White supremacy. This research stemmed from the Institution's publication of an offensive catalog cover and the subsequent reactions to its inherent racism. Following this incident, our institution was dubbed 'Cracker State' in the media, informing our…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Geographic Regions, Whites, Power Structure
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Fraizer, Dan – Composition Forum, 2018
Writing transfer research often illuminates the writing abilities, attitudes, and assumptions college writers bring to a writing assignment, but faculty members across the disciplines may not have the tools for understanding what the students in their particular classes bring to their particular writing assignments. In this proposed model,…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Course Content
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Roy, Joydeep; Mathis, William J. – National Education Policy Center, 2017
A recent report from EdChoice documents two staffing trends in public schools. After a temporary pause during the Great Recession, school staffing in the U.S. resumed an upward trajectory, and hiring tilted toward non-teaching personnel as compared to teachers. The report concludes that staffing growth outpaces enrollment growth and that there has…
Descriptors: Public Schools, United States History, Educational History, Personnel Selection
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Susannah Walker; Gustavo Carrera – History Teacher, 2017
For a long time, Advanced Placement and other advanced-level U.S. history courses at the high school level were modeled after the collegiate survey course. However, the last two decades or more have seen some significant changes in the teaching of U.S. history at undergraduate and high school levels. Many of these changes at the high school level…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Chandler, Karen Michele – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
Although children's literature has long alluded to cultural connections between Africans and African Americans, very few texts establish clear lines of influence between particular African ethnic groups and African American characters and communities. Joyce Hansen's "The Captive" (1994) and Sharon Draper's "Copper Sun" (2006)…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Novels, African American Culture, Slavery
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Butler, Brandon M.; Burgin, Stephen R. – Social Education, 2016
Jamestown is at the heart of any teaching and learning of colonial American history. Stories of John Smith and Pocahontas are learned by elementary and secondary students across the United States. In Virginia, Jamestown is first taught in third grade and revisited five more times from historical, political, economic, and geographic perspectives.…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Interdisciplinary Approach, United States History, History Instruction
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Hale, Jon – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper focuses on how shifting conceptions of youth underpinned young people's activism in the 1950s and 1960s. This paper specifically examines conceptions of youth as it changed throughout the twentieth century. G. Stanley Hall articulated a distinct notion of "adolescence" in the early twentieth century. But the "Scottsboro…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Youth, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
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