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Online Continuous Professional Learning: A Model for Improving Reading Outcomes in Regional and Remote Schools?
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Main, Susan; Slater, Eileen – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Professional learning provides the opportunity to improve teacher practice and student outcomes; however, challenges exist in ensuring that teachers can access quality professional learning. Teachers in regional and remote schools may have even more limited access to the expertise required to support changes in practice than their peers in…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Regional Schools, Online Courses
Family Engagement in Schools: Parent, Educator, and Community Perspectives
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Kelty, Noel E.; Wakabayashi, Tomoko – SAGE Open, 2020
How engaged families are in their children's lives, whether at home or in school, predicts their success in school and in life. The purpose of this study was to explore parent, educator, and community member perspectives of family engagement, preschool through grade 12, to inform state-level policy from an ecological framework. Ten semi-structured…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
Science and Technology Education: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions. Proceedings of the International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2019) (3rd, Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 17-20, 2019)
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Lamanauskas, Vincentas, Ed. – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
These proceedings contain papers of the 3rd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2019) held in Šiauliai, Lithuania, June 17-19, 2019. This symposium was organized by the Scientific Methodical Center "Scientia Educologica" in cooperation with the Institute of Education, Šiauliai University. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Formative Evaluation, Chemistry
Promoting Learning in Rural Schools
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Redding, Sam; Walberg, Herbert J. – Academic Development Institute, 2012
The research reviewed in this report suggests that some of the contentions about schools, districts, and communities in rural areas are mistaken. Many of the issues they face also confront urban and suburban educators, and rural communities offer several distinctive educational advantages. A lack of student motivation to learn is a problem often…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Student Motivation, Outcomes of Education, Barriers
The Family and Child Education (FACE) Program and School Readiness: A Structural Model Approach in An American Indian Reservation Context
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Pfannenstiel, Judy; Lente-Jojola, Debbie – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
This study investigates the effects of the Family and Child Education (FACE) prekindergarten program on school readiness. The FACE program is located in Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools on some of the most rural American Indian (AI) reservations in the United States. It explicitly integrates the language and culture of the communities in…
Descriptors: School Readiness, American Indians, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Progress in Kindergarten Education. Bulletin, 1925, No. 18
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Vandewalker, Nina C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
Marked progress has been made in the field of kindergarten education during the period from 1922 to 1924. This is shown in the: (1) continued increase in the enrollment in the kindergartens of the country; and (2) the better adjustment of the kindergarten to the school as a whole, including the new educational aims--the basis for unification,…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Kindergarten