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Dickerson, Sean L. – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2014
The spread of zero tolerance policies for school-based scenarios flourished under President William J. Clinton who wanted to close a loophole in the Guns-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Expansion in the coverage of zero tolerance policy to offenses outside the initial scope of weapon and drug offenses has led to a disproportional ratio of African…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Educational Environment, Educational Legislation, Weapons
Council of the Great City Schools, 2014
Across the nation, large urban school districts are experiencing premature and rapidly accelerating deterioration of school buildings. The conditions of buildings and equipment, most importantly in classrooms and school support spaces, are deteriorating to the point of hindering the core mission of schools: educating children. This report is the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Buildings, Urban Schools, Educational Environment
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Fiore, Stephen M.; Rodriguez, Walter E.; Carstens, Deborah S. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
This paper presents a framework for facilitating communication among STEM project teams that are geographically dispersed in synchronous or asynchronous online courses. The framework has been developed to: (a) improve how engineering and technology students and faculty work with collocated and geographically-dispersed teams; and (b) to connect the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Cooperation, Internet, Online Courses
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Torres, A. Chris; Oluwole, Joseph – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Charter schools see as many as one in four teachers leave annually, and recent evidence attributes much of this turnover to provisions affected by collective bargaining processes and state laws such as salary, benefits, job security, and working hours. There have been many recent efforts to improve teacher voice in charter schools (Kahlenberg…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Job Satisfaction, Collective Bargaining, State Policy
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Farrell, James; Hardin, Cindy – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2014
With the rapid growth in online MBA programs, many traditional schools are seeking ways to differentiate their course offerings to avoid them becoming commoditized by the market. For some institutions this involves pulling away from traditional course offerings, and moving towards cross-disciplinary offerings. For many faculty members, this can be…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Behavioral Objectives, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Environment
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Jackson, Carla W.; Callender, Maya F. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2014
This study examined differences in the quantity of child vocalizations (CVs) between preschool and home environments using the Language Environmental Analysis (LENA). The sample included monolingual English-speaking children (n = 27) and Spanish-English speaking dual language learners (n = 30). A two-way mixed effects analysis of variance with one…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Family Environment, Verbal Communication
Poole, Kerry D. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Florida has experienced some of the greatest growth of Advanced Placement (AP) programs in recent years and student scores on the AP exams have evolved into a highly significant metric in evaluating student proficiency and teacher and school effectiveness. Despite this growth, it is not well known how AP teachers make decisions about the content…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, History Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Decision Making
Vermiller, Miriam M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study investigated the experience of nine older adult students over 50 years old as they matriculated in the traditional multigenerational classroom at a community college in Central Florida. The college chosen for the study primarily serves traditional students and dual enrollees, but more and more, older adult students are enrolling while…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Student Experience, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Izzo, G. Martin; Teal, Elisabeth J. – Marketing Education Review, 2012
The case touches on several areas of marketing: ethics, sales issues, conflicts of interest, marketing forecasts, and issues of pricing. Joe Brice, the visionary and real estate broker for a 36-lot subdivision of moderately priced single-family homes targeting the $190,000 to $260,000 range, seems to have identified an unmet housing market,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Real Estate, Construction (Process), Marketing
Barkley, Brian Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In 1989 Dr. Stephen Covey wrote "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" which revealed seven habits that people should integrate into their lives that would help them on the two levels of relationships. First, it would help people to establish a better relationship personally. Secondly, it would help people to improve their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Culture, Educational Environment, Instructional Leadership
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Ayscue, Jennifer B. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Over the last several decades, suburban schools have become increasingly more diverse and now must respond to racial change, so that they can successfully educate an increasingly more diverse and multiracial student body. This article analyzes interview responses of administrators, teachers, and staff at 19 schools in six diversifying suburban…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, School Districts, Student Diversity, Racial Composition
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Estepp, Christopher M.; Thoron, Andrew C.; Roberts, T. Grady; Dyer, James E. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2014
Teachers must continue to learn throughout their careers to maintain their professional competence. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in professional development needs of Florida agricultural education teachers based on selected variables. Results of the study indicated that teachers had the greatest professional development…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Faculty Development, Stress Variables, Work Environment
Capps, Randy, Ed.; Fix, Michael, Ed. – Migration Policy Institute, 2012
The child population in the United States is rapidly changing and diversifying--in large part because of immigration. Today, nearly one in four US children under the age of 18 is the child of an immigrant. While research has focused on the largest of these groups (Latinos and Asians), far less academic attention has been paid to the changing Black…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Blacks, Children, Child Health
Lester, Robin Rawlings; Maldonado, Nancy – Online Submission, 2013
Bullying has become a nationwide concern at the K-12 level. Guided by the theoretical framework of social learning theory, this study explored the perceptions of secondary education teachers about the bully-proofing program in place at one target middle school. Despite the target middle school's anti-bullying program, the incidence of bullying had…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Secondary Education, Bullying
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Mathews, Charles S.; Fornaciari, Charles J.; Rubens, Arthur J. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
Feature films, old and new, have been used for many years to teach management education in general and leadership skills in particular. Films are often able to affect not only our emotional responses and perceptions of events, but they can also have an impact on our personal lives over long periods of time. Although anecdotal evidence (primarily…
Descriptors: Instructional Films, Teaching Methods, Administrator Education, Business Administration Education
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