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Goodwin, A. Lin, Ed. – 1997
The chapters in this collection explore alternative assessment and give specific examples of successful efforts by teachers to develop their own systems of assessment. Taken together, these chapters are a rejection of the ranking and separating of students according to test scores, and an argument for richer forms of mixed alternative assessments.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Download full textWang, Margaret C., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – 1996
This collection, which was prepared to honor Edmund W. Gordon and Maynard C. Reynolds for their leadership at the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education, represents the work of researchers from the Center on Education in the Inner Cities. It is organized around the four themes of educational resilience, student…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Student), Educational Improvement
DeYoung, Alan J., Ed. – 1991
This collection of essays on rural education in the United States aims to fill a gap in the educational literature by highlighting the available research on rural schools and their contexts. The three sections of the book focus on the historical, social, political, and economic contexts of rural education; topics of practical interest for rural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged
Thompson, Jane, Ed. – 2000
These 12 papers support the view that the current, general interest in widening participation in higher education in the United Kingdom may provide opportunities to radicalize policies and intervene strategically in institutional practices in ways that help to influence them. "Introduction" (Jane Thompson) precedes "Joining,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adults, Community Development
Stronge, James H., Ed. – 1992
One of the more enigmatic issues of contemporary homelessness is that of schooling. This collection highlights issues related to the provision of an education to homeless children and youths. Background information is offered, with an analysis of educational policy relating to homeless children. Practical strategies and a review of successful…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Devins, Neal E. – 1989
Controversy surrounding private education involves questions of compulsory education's role in inculcating values, how much alike public and private schools should be, and the duty of educational institutions to conform to constitutional norms. This book examines government regulation and resistance, legislative and judicial approaches, and issues…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Reimers, Fernando, Ed. – 2000
This book aims to unveil some of the intricacies and paradoxes in the links among education, poverty, and inequality in the Americas by offering a current account of the status of educational opportunities for low-income groups. The goal is to offer various frameworks to conceptualize the dynamics of educational inequality at the micro-level and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indian Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Attainment
Theobald, Neil D., Ed.; Malen, Betty, Ed. – 2000
This yearbook's focus is the connection between state responsibility and local control. Its purpose is to analyze the evolving balance between state responsibility for funding K-12 education and local autonomy in operating these schools. The goals of this analysis are twofold; the book seeks to characterize how this relationship has changed, both…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Boards of Education, Charter Schools, Educational Assessment
Wong, Kenneth K., Ed.; Wang, Margaret C., Ed. – 2002
This collection of conference papers includes: (1) "Using Market Forces to Make Title I More Effective" (Marci Kanstoroom and Tyce Palmaffy); (2) "Making Economically Grounded Decisions about Comprehensive School Reform Models: Considerations of Costs, Effects, and Contexts" (Jennifer King Rice); (3) "Does Title I Money…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Educational Technology
Justice, Madeline, Ed. – 2002
This document contains the following papers on diversity/equity from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference: (1) "Modeling and Developing Technology Integration with Pre-Service Indigenous Teachers" (Shadow W. J. Armfield and Marilyn Durocher); (2) "Integrating Diversity in Children's…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Pluralism
Parker, Laurence, Ed.; Deyhle, Donna, Ed.; Villenas, Sofia, Ed. – 1999
Critical race theory offers a way to understand how ostensibly race-neutral structures in education--knowledge, merit, objectivity, and "good education"--in fact help form and police the boundaries of white supremacy and racism. Critical race theory can be used to deconstruct the meaning of "educational achievement," to…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Court Litigation, Critical Theory, Educational Discrimination
Orfield, Gary; Eaton, Susan E. – 1996
The United States is quick to celebrate the Brown v. Board of Education decision, but there is an insidious trend toward resegregation in the public schools. For the first time since 1954, school segregation is actually increasing for African American students. In several rarely discussed decisions, the Supreme Court has opened the door for the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Danziger, Sheldon H., Ed.; And Others – 1994
Trends in poverty and income inequality and potential solutions for such social problems are discussed. The complicated attitudes of the general public toward public policy and social problems are reviewed, with an emphasis on the persistence and intergenerational transmission of poverty, the extent of welfare dependence, and the emergence of an…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Kappner, Augusta Souza; And Others – 1990
Efforts undertaken to meet the challenge of diversity at the City University of New York's Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) are described in this five-part conference presentation. In the first part, BMCC's president, Augusta Souza Kappner, provides an overview of the ethnic and demographic composition of the college's student body…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Community Colleges, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Warger, Cynthia, Ed. – 1990
The 18 papers in this collection describe approaches that practitioners and experts have found successful in using technology as a tool to improve learning. Individual chapters are: (1) "Where Do We Go Now That the Power's On?" (Frank Withrow); (2) "A Curriculum for the Information Age" (Mary Alice White); (3) "Developing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education
