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Parkhouse, Hillary; Massaro, Virginia R.; Cuba, Melissa J.; Waters, Carolyn N. – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this research article, authors Hillary Parkhouse, Virginia Massaro, Melissa Cuba, and Carolyn Waters examine teachers' perceptions of their responsibilities to support undocumented students and the barriers they encounter in fulfilling them. Since the 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision guaranteed public K-12 education to undocumented students, there…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Responsibility, Barriers
Mwase, Gloria; Keniry, Julian – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
With support from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Jobs for the Future (JFF) formed the Greenforce Initiative--a two-year venture that will work with community colleges across the nation to strengthen their capacity to implement or refine quality pathways…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Colleges, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
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McCloskey, Molly – Educational Leadership, 2011
To learn more about how parents understand the whole child approach to education, ASCD commissioned KRC Research to conduct a study that included parent focus groups in Richmond, Virginia; and Columbus, Ohio, as well as a survey of 800 parents across the United States to identify their perceptions of what a whole child education is, how it is…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Holistic Approach, Surveys, Parents
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Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Sahin, Ismail, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) which took place on April 22-25, 2021 in New York, USA-www.ihses.net. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Foreign Students
Casserly, Michael; Lachlan-Hache, Jonathon; Manish Naik – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
The nation's major city public school districts have substantial construction, renovation, modernization, and deferred maintenance needs because of the age and size of their school buildings, shifting populations, and the need to devote substantial resources to instructional personnel to meet their core academic mission. For instance, the average…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, School Maintenance, Educational Facilities
Smith, Maurice W. J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Fifty-two years after "Brown v. Board of Education" and 42 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there remains a declining presence of Black teachers and administrators in the United States. As powerful role models for all students, especially Black students, Black educators are crucial to the increasing minority student population…
Descriptors: Principals, Role Models, Rating Scales, Probability
Christie, Kathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
In its 2003 report, School Survey on Crime and Safety, the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) found that, during the 1999-2000 school year, 29% of schools reported having more difficulty with student bullying than with any other single discipline problem. A similar 2004 NCES report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, found that, in…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Surveys, Violence, Discipline Problems