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Danica Donker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Elementary students' literacy skills are decreasing nationwide ("The Nation's Report Card," 2019). This is concerning because as literacy skills slip, the literacy demands for American workers are steadily increasing (OECD, 2013). Unfortunately, adding to the situation is the fact that students' attitudes towards reading are worsening…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Reading Motivation
Owens, Dorothea Jody – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This ethnographic case study examines the dynamic relationship between culture and environmental education within the context of a specific Florida-based public education program. The School District of Hillsborough County (SDHC) offers the program through a three-day field trip to the study site, Nature's Classroom, and accompanying classroom…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Environmental Education, Case Studies, Cultural Influences
Belton, Montrio Montess, Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The academic achievement gap that exists between middle class White and non-White and poor students is well-documented. As policy-makers and educational leaders in South Carolina grapple with the academic achievement gap between White and non-White students, it has become increasingly important for them to include the growing Hispanic population…
Descriptors: African American Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Hispanic American Students, Minority Groups