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Nichols, Daniel Jude – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Visual texts, such as photographs, paintings, film, political cartoons, maps, charts, and graphs are important resources used for a variety of purposes in the history classroom. Aligning instructional use of visual texts to key developmental skills within the area of historical thinking should be a central concern to teachers of historical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Instructional Materials
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Villenas, Sofia A.; Angeles, Sophia L. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
This article examines how a progressive, rural/small city community in the USA wrestles with race, racism, and school equity in the public arena of print media. It inquires into the tensions, limitations, and possibilities for race-conscious discourse in the face of both explicit racist hate speech and benevolent liberal race talk. Based on…
Descriptors: News Media, Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Race
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Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Test-based accountability as well as value-added asessments and much experimental and quasi-experimental research in education rely on achievement tests to measure student skills and knowledge. Yet, we know little regarding fundamental properties of these tests, an important example being the extent of measurement error and its implications for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Error of Measurement
Kemple, James; Nathanson, Lori; Villavicencio, Adriana; Duval, John – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
The Research Alliance for New York City Schools is committed to conducting rigorous, non-partisan research studies on topics that matter to the city's public schools. One of the core functions of the Research Alliance is to conduct research in collaboration with other researchers at NYU, at other universities, and at other organizations across the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Expertise, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
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Sonu, Debbie; Oppenheim, Rachel; Epstein, Shira Eve; Agarwal, Ruchi – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2012
In this article, we present a qualitative multi-case study of three beginning elementary teachers working in New York City and describe the distinct ways in which each articulates her responsibility to teach a social justice-oriented education. We employ positioning theory to examine how teachers narrate their relationship to the concept of social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Educators, Elementary School Teachers, Case Studies
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Hursh, David W.; Henderson, Joseph A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Neoliberal policies, in spite of their considerable damage to economic equality, the environment, and education, remain dominant. In this paper, we suggest that neoliberalism has remained dominant in part because the power elite who benefit from the policies have gained control over both public debate and policy-making. By dominating the discourse…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Economic Development, Economic Progress, Power Structure
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McVarish, Judith – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2009
Helping pre-service teachers to feel competent and courageous about the mathematics they will find themselves teaching as elementary school teachers is a critical component of any math methods course. This paper addresses this aim by highlighting a process that involves pre-service teachers in creating original mathematics literature books. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Treglia, Joseph V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation identifies what may be done to overcome barriers to information sharing among federal, tribal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and emergency responders. Social, technical, and policy factors related to information sharing and collaboration in the law enforcement and emergency response communities are examined. This…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Emergency Programs, Allied Health Personnel, Police
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DelliCarpini, Margo; Alonso, Orlando B. – Global Education Review, 2014
Little research exists on effective ways to prepare secondary mathematics and science teachers to work with English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream mathematics and science (subsequently referred to as STEM) classrooms. Given the achievement gap that exists between ELLs and their native-speaking counterparts in STEM subjects, as well as the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, English Language Learners, Mathematics Education, Science Education
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Reyna, Valerie F.; Estrada, Steven M.; DeMarinis, Jessica A.; Myers, Regina M.; Stanisz, Janine M.; Mills, Britain A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Predictions of fuzzy-trace theory and neurobiological approaches are examined regarding risk taking in a classic decision-making task--the framing task--as well as in the context of real-life risk taking. We report the 1st study of framing effects in adolescents versus adults, varying risk and reward, and relate choices to individual differences,…
Descriptors: Cues, Inhibition, Young Adults, Adolescents
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Correia, Luis Grosso – History of Education, 2011
The International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, continuously published its "Educational Yearbook", in a total of 21 editions, in order to "provide students of education sciences with the world education theories and practice". Headed by Isaac L. Kandel, the journal followed a traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Education, Educational History
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Stessen-Blevins, Amanda – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2013
One of my first experiences with teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) was during my years as an undergraduate, working with the Somali-Bantu Community Organization (SBCO) in Syracuse, NY. My fellow undergraduate tutors and I worked specifically with 4th-6th grade students, developing lesson plans and implementing project-based learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Educational Theories, English (Second Language), Tutorial Programs
Mazza, Elena T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Social work educators have an ethical responsibility to graduate students who are academically, behaviorally and professionally prepared for entry into the social work profession. Although a student's suitability to the profession is not necessarily hindered because of the effects of a psychiatric disability, sometimes it is. When this occurs,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Pathak, Parag A. – Annual Review of Economics, 2011
The mechanism design approach to student assignment involves the theoretical, empirical, and experimental study of systems used to allocate students into schools around the world. Recent practical experience designing systems for student assignment has raised new theoretical questions for the theory of matching and assignment. This article reviews…
Descriptors: Economics, Literature Reviews, Student Placement, Theories
New York State Education Department, 2014
This technical report provides detailed information regarding the technical, statistical, and measurement attributes of the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) for the Grades 3-8 Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics 2014 Operational Tests. This report includes information about test content and test development, item (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, English, Language Arts, Mathematics Tests
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