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Leigh Keener – State Education Standard, 2024
A recent Arkansas Department of Education analysis found highly rated early childhood programs serve many of the state's children. Yet 81,000 eligible children still lack access to publicly funded early learning experiences, particularly in rural areas, and enter kindergarten "not ready to learn." The LEARNS Act focuses on five key areas…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, State Departments of Education, Achievement Gap
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Crawford, Megan – Educational Review, 2023
This article takes the author's personal experience of being a Head of Department (HOD) in an English University, and frames this experience as a transition narrative. The format draws on the work of Sandra Acker, who framed her own experience as a Head of Department in Canada, in three areas. Utilising literature both on Higher Education…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Universities, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration
National Council for the Social Studies, 2021
Teaching students to act as citizens significantly enhances preparation for college and career. It is incumbent upon the National Council for the Social Studies to provide guidance to states and local districts to develop social studies standards to achieve this goal. The recommendations presented here focus on the principle that standards…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Academic Standards, State Departments of Education
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Gupta, Sukanya – Intercultural Education, 2022
This article is a reflection of the author's experiences teaching a course titled 'Women In Islam' [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The…
Descriptors: Islam, Females, Higher Education, Course Descriptions
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Sadi, Merav Nakar; Ergas, Oren – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
The past 50 years have witnessed a growing presence of critical theory within different social science academic departments across the western world. The joint existence of a theory committed to exposing and criticizing various inequalities of the social order within academic institutions based on traditional hierarchies and prestigious…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, First Generation College Students, Social Sciences, Departments
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Bula, Andrew – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods