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We Will Never Have the Kind of Schools We Would Like to Have, nor the Test Scores We Want, Unless We Do Something about ______[Part 1]
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Berliner, David C. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2019
In this article, the first of a two-part presentation, the author advocates for healthy communities, families, and schools, as well as for changes in housing patterns. Part Two will appear in the October 2019 issue of the Record.
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community, Housing, Public Schools
Cultivating a Justice Orientation toward Citizenship in Preservice Elementary Teachers
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Fry, Sara W.; O'Brien, Jason – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
Teacher educators have an obligation to prepare preservice teachers with the skills and dispositions necessary to promote a socially just world. Yet the results of this study uncovered that the majority of elementary preservice teachers in a national sample (N = 846) have a simplistic perception of good citizenship consistent with what Westheimer…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Citizenship Education, Social Justice
Residence Life and the New Student Experience, 3rd Edition. The First-Year Experience Monograph Series No. 5
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Zeller, William J., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
Residence life programs play a key role in recruiting students, helping them make a successful transition to a new institution, and in retaining them, whether students are enrolling for the first time, transferring from another institution, or entering graduate school. Chapters in this book address theories of learning and development, new…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen