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English Learner Education: Examining Policy Decisions and Their Impact on Student Outcomes
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Manuel Vazquez Cano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This three-article dissertation examined how policy choices in three key policy areas -- initial enrollment, service provision, and reclassification -- impact English learner (EL)-classified students. The first article examined the national landscape of state statutes, regulations, and state education agencies' (SEA) guidance that support…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Immigrants, Classification
Interactive Whiteboard Use: The Catalyst of Student Achievement
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Lamberth, Tenneille Terrell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 forced school districts to become more accountable by requiring all students to read on grade level by the year 2014. However, President Obama's educational policy shift is allowing states to develop their own accountability and improvement system. This study examined fourth and eighth grade math…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interaction, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 4
Circles of Culture and Cognition: A Sociocognitive Study of Collaboration within and among Academic Groups of Teachers in a Rural School District
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Baker, Linda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This ethnographic case study examined the roles of district and school macro-culture and teacher sub-group micro-culture in influencing the nature and extent of teachers' professional collaboration. Informed by the sociocognitive theory that learning is rooted in social relationships and develops through interpersonal discourse and activity, the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Schools, Leadership Styles, Cooperation