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Shin, Dong Hee – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2007
Introduction: This study investigates the processes involved in the development of a broadband community network in the Northeast USA. A community network project was studied by tracing the developmental processes from network design to the stabilisation of information infrastructure. Method: A case study was conducted on the broadband community…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Computer Networks
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Graham, Mark A. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2007
In contemporary life and education, the local is marginalized in favor of large-scale economies of consumption that are indifferent to ecological concerns. The consequences of neglecting local human and natural communities include a degraded habitat, loss of wilderness, alienation, rootlessness, and lack of connection to communities. Critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Art Education, Ecology, Barriers
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Maestri, Melissa Amy – History Teacher, 2006
The research for this study was undertaken to analyze the New York State 11th grade United States History Regents exams through conducting a content analysis of the types of multiple-choice questions asked in Part I of the tests with a particular emphasis on the variety of questions asked regarding women and race. Because these tests stand at the…
Descriptors: Grade 11, United States History, Multicultural Education, Content Analysis
GRIFFITHS, DANIEL E. – 1962
THE RESULTS OF A CONFERENCE BASED UPON THE "DEVELOPMENT OF CRITERIA OF SUCCESS IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION" PROJECT (COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT, NO. 214) ARE REPORTED. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WAS THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN. THE ACTIVITIES REPORTED INVOLVED STUDY OF THE REPORT AND OBSERVATIONS IN A…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Conferences, Elementary Education
Zaromatidis, Katherine, Ed.; Oswald, Patricia A., Ed.; Levine, Judith R., Ed.; Indenbaum, Gene, Ed. – Online Submission, 2007
The 21st Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology was held on March 28-30, 2007 at Hudson Valley Resort and Day Spa in Kerhonkson, New York. The conference was sponsored by the Psychology Department of Farmingdale State College. The conference included twenty five presentations and ten of these are included in these proceedings.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Psychology, Annual Reports
Burke, Joseph C. – 1998
This study examined how closely 11 accepted principles for managing budgets were followed at 98 public college campuses during the first half of the 1990s, a period of budget problems. The colleges reviewed were in six states: California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Wisconsin. The study found that (1) planning was not inclusive,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Decision Making, Educational Finance
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Lortie, Philip – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
In this article, the authors attempt to explore some of the ways in which youth subjectivities are constituted in the neoliberal order, the ways in which their behaviours are criminalized, and the harrowing manner in which schools, as one site, are complicit in a larger cultural disinvestment in youth. The authors accomplish this through an…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Drama, Art Education, Political Attitudes
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Sullivan, Susan; Glanz, Jeffrey – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2000
Using case studies, examines five alternative supervisory approaches based in both theory and practice: mentoring, peer coaching, portfolios for differentiated supervision, peer assessment, and action research. Collaborative relationships, shared decision making, reflective listening and practice, and enabling administrative leadership were…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peters, Scott J. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2004
This article explores an important purpose that some scholars in professional programs of study are utilizing service-learning to pursue: educating the civic professional by integrating education for work and citizenship. While such a purpose holds promise, an examination of a case study from the field of landscape architecture illustrates the…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Professional Occupations, Service Learning, Participation
Light, Daniel; Honey, Margaret; Heinze, Juliet; Brunner, Cornelia; Wexler, Dara; Mandinach, Ellen; Fasca, Chad – Education Development Center, Inc., 2005
With funding from the Carnegie Corporation, in the spring of 2002, EDC's Center for Children and Technology began a two-year exploratory study that examined how educators and administrators within the New York City public school system are using data?made available to them through the print and web-based reporting system of the Grow Network to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Public Schools
Darling-Hammond, Linda – School Administrator, 1992
Highly prescriptive curriculum, testing, and teacher evaluation policies, such as those in New York State, actually impede teachers from teaching responsibly and effectively. These policies insist that teachers demonstrate a set of uniform behaviors unrelated to effective teaching for particular students. To work toward a new reform paradigm,…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brown, David – History Teacher, 2003
The distinguished Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter possessed a scholarly imagination unusually open to fresh approaches to illuminating the past. In the seven years that separated the publications of "American Political Tradition" (1948) and "The Age of Reform" (1955), Hofstadter absorbed new intellectual…
Descriptors: United States History, Historians, Historiography, Social Sciences
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O'Regan, Katherine; Oster, Sharon – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
Government contracting has raised a collection of issues with respect to adequate oversight and accountability. This paper explores one avenue through which contracting agencies may achieve these tasks: through the governance practices of the contractor's board. Oversight and monitoring are a board's key responsibilities, and influencing a board's…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Governing Boards, Accountability, Role Perception
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Stefl-Mabry, Joette; Powers, Jennifer Goodall; Doll, Carol – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2006
This article outlines a K-12 college learning partnership that has evolved over the past two years at the University at Albany, SUNY. Two faculty members with the School of Information Science & Policy (SISP) Joette Stefl-Mabry and Jennifer Goodall Powers, with administrative support of their Associate Dean, Carol Doll, have integrated…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Environment, College School Cooperation, Information Science
Spottheim, David; Wilson, George R. – 1991
The logic and methodology applied in a management science approach to performance and staff utilization in the Client Benefits (CBA) and Community Service (CSA) divisions of the Suffolk County (New York) Department of Social Services (SCDSS) are described. Using a blend of classical organization theory and management science techniques, the CBA…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Delivery Systems, Government Employees, Local Government
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