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Seventh-Grade Social Studies versus Social Meliorism
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Greiner, Jeff A. – Social Studies, 2016
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), in the state of North Carolina, has gone through considerable recent effort to revise, support, and assess their seventh-grade social studies curriculum in an effort to serve three goals: comply with the Common Core State Standards (Common Core), comply with the North Carolina Essential Standards…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Social Studies, Public Schools, Common Core State Standards
The Use of Digital Educational Technology and Third Spaces with Foreign-Born Latinos
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Guerra-Nunez, Oscar – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article addresses the concept of educational third spaces that move beyond the paternalistic concept of a teacher as a font of knowledge filling the empty vessels of the students' minds, especially for foreign-born Latino (FBL) students. These students often struggle and lag behind their native-born peers as they master the new language of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Hispanic American Students
An Investigation on Teacher Retention and Teachers' Perceptions of Cultural Leadership in Selected North Carolina Year Round and Traditional Elementary Schools
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Council, Ve-Lecia Selene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher retention and teachers' perceptions of cultural leadership in select North Carolina elementary year round and traditional elementary schools. The participants in this study were North Carolina elementary teachers that participated in the 2008 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Attitudes