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Westmaas, Lucas; Sludden, John – Research For Action, 2014
A position paper released on December 5, 2014 by the Philadelphia School Advocacy Partners (PSAP), the advocacy arm of the Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP), calls for an "aggressive expansion of schools that are achieving results for low-income and minority students" (p. 2). The document describes what it terms…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Position Papers, Special Education, Low Achievement
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Knight, Wanda B. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2010
The "sink-or-swim" ideology is pervasive in the United States society. At research universities, for example, promotion and tenure are institutional waters in which faculty are forced to sink or swim with respect to publishing. Either they publish ("swim") or they perish ("sink"). In throwing faculty overboard,…
Descriptors: Teacher Promotion, Tenure, College Faculty, Publish or Perish Issue
Focal Point, 1994
This special issue examines multicultural aspects of services provided by agencies concerned with children's mental health. The lead article is titled "Developing Culturally Competent Organizations" by James L. Mason. This article uses the cultural competence model to discuss an organization's self-evaluation and its planning in the…
Descriptors: Agencies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Herr, Edwin L., Ed.; And Others – 1980
This document reports the proceedings of a five-day workshop for guidance leadership personnel--including local directors of guidance and pupil personnel services, career education coordinators, state department of education specialists and counselor educators--in Pennsylvania. The focus of the Institute was on the relationships between career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Disabilities