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Prekindergarten Teachers' Perspectives on Classroom Environments and Barriers to Optimal Learning Spaces
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Zlata Stankovic-Ramirez; Brigitte Vittrup – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Physical classroom environments for young children and the quality of those environments have typically been studied by utilizing various rating scales. Research is limited on early childhood educators' perspectives and decision-making processes in striving to create optimal physical classroom environments during the school year. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Barriers
Safer Engineering and CTE Instruction: A National STEM Education Imperative. What the Data Tells Us
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Tyler S. Love; Kenneth Russell Roy – International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2022
For decades safety has been an integral component of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and CTE (career and technical education) instruction. Given today's litigious society, safety in P-12 STEM education and CTE has received greater attention. This in part is the result of the rise in popularity of collaborative learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Safety, Vocational Education, Preschool Education
Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability. Policy Proposal 2021-05
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Davis, Elizabeth E.; Sojourner, Aaron – Hamilton Project, 2021
The core challenge our proposal seeks to address is how to ensure that every American family and child has access to high-quality, affordable early childhood care and education (ECE) services in a critical period of human development, breaking a shortage of investment in young children. America's status quo asks the most of parents when they have…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
A Systematic Literature Review of Chinese Music Education Studies during 2007 to 2019
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Yang, Yang; Welch, Graham – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Based on findings from a large meta-data-based literature survey, this article is intended to provide a comprehensive synthesis of key features of China's music education system as seen through the lens of n = 116 major research studies, drawn from a total of N = 3,257 high-impact Chinese journal articles published during 2007 to 2019. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Research Reports, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Conceptualizing the Play Policies in Preschool Curriculums
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Sener, Tulin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This research attempted to describe the play policies in preschool institutions in Ankara, Turkey. The aim of this study is to determine the approaches of the preschools to the children's play. "Play Policy Questionnaire" administered to all directors and teachers of 20 public preschools and 20 private preschools. Play policy of each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Play, Educational Policy
Perspectives on the Key PK-12 Education Legislation of 2013
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Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2013
The 2013 session of the 118th Indiana General Assembly adjourned sine die (with no appointed date for resumption) on Saturday, April 27, 2013. The legislature considered over 2,200 bills during the session, many of which addressed education policy and school governance, or were child-related legislation. This report is a summary of 12 key PK-12…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education