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The Flint, Michigan Water Crisis as a Case Study to Introduce Concepts of Equity and Power into an Analytical Chemistry Curriculum
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Buckley, Paul; Fahrenkrug, Eli – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
This work developed the Flint, Michigan water crisis as a modular case study for teaching traditional analytical chemistry concepts through the medium of environmental justice, power, and equity. An interdisciplinary framework was used to design, implement, and assess the case study in an effort to understand how the deliberate presence of…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Water Pollution, Chemistry, Case Studies
Learning about Teachers' Literacy Instruction from Classroom Observations
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Kelcey, Ben; Carlisle, Joanne F. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of this study is to contribute to efforts to improve methods for gathering and analyzing data from classroom observations in early literacy. The methodological approach addresses current problems of reliability and validity of classroom observations by taking into account differences in teachers' uses of instructional actions (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Reliability
Kindergarten Teachers Speak out: "Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast!"
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Gallant, Patricia A. – Reading Horizons, 2009
This article presents results of a study of 229 kindergarten teachers who completed a survey designed to gather information about the current state of Michigan kindergartens. In addition to detailed data that reveals teachers' literacy instructional practices, teachers provided written responses to the following open-ended questions: What are the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes