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Keengwe, Jared, Ed.; Onchwari, Grace, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
As the American immigrant population continues to expand, immigrant children and children of immigrants are entering the public school system. To be most effective, new teaching pedagogies must take cultural diversity into account. "Cross-Cultural Considerations in the Education of Young Immigrant Learners" explores some of the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Children, Public Schools, Cultural Differences
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Commons, Micheal Lamport; Goodman, Stephen Allen – Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, 2008
This historical account is told as a narrative from the authors' perspectives of Project Giant Step, which might be one of the most successful teaching-of-reading projects in history. There are a few purposes in telling this story. First, it is in times of chaos that real innovation can be made. It is then that people take chances and it is not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Change, Reinforcement, Precision Teaching
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Johnson, Lauri – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2006
This article examines the notion of "culturally responsive leadership" through a historical case study of the life of Gertrude Elise MacDougald Ayer, the first African American woman principal in New York City. I begin by situating Ayer's leadership practice in light of the social and political context of Harlem in the 1930s and early…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Women Administrators, African Americans, Case Studies
Wofford, Harris, Jr. – Educ Rec, 1970
The author gives a candid report on his experiences while creating a new college. (AD)
Descriptors: Activism, College Planning, Curriculum Development, Educational Experiments