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Sharice M. Adkins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Children in under-resourced schools are often subjected to a "pedagogy of poverty," in which their school days consist primarily of independently completing worksheets and preparing for assessments. By contrast, children in more affluent schools often experience engaging, hands-on learning opportunities. This discrepancy is identified as…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Disadvantaged, Achievement Gap, Learning Processes
Hicks, Angela Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In a rural elementary school, characterized by high poverty levels in Appalachian Ohio, school personnel were concerned that student literacy and math proficiency levels remained low during 2005-2015 and teachers had not been able to close the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and non-economically disadvantaged students…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Nunez, Roberto – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine if Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) training of teachers can have a significant effect on closing the achievement gap for Latino students by collecting data to answer the following questions: (1) How can teachers develop and maintain their own cultural competence? Specifically, how can teachers become…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Classroom Techniques, Rural Schools, Culturally Relevant Education
Alford, Betty J., Ed.; Perreault, George, Ed.; Zellner, Luana, Ed.; Ballenger, Julia W., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2011
This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, College Faculty, Professional Associations, Yearbooks
State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2007
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is pleased to release its fourth annual National Trends Report on the use of federal funds to support educational technology. This report documents findings from Round 4 (FY 05) of the No Child Left Behind, Title II Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology (NCLB II D) program.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evidence, Grants, School Districts
Lemke, Cheryl; Sayavong, Phoumy; Martin, Crystal – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2005
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is pleased to present the findings of the second annual National Trends Report. SETDA commissioned the Metiri Group for a second consecutive year to conduct a national survey in the fall of 2004 on the second year implementation of the No Child Left Behind, Title II, Part D, Enhancing…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, State Policy, Sustainability, Innovation
Lemke, Cheryl; Wainer, Andrew; Haning, Nicole – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2006
The State Educational Technology Directors Association is pleased to release its third annual Trends Report on educational technology. In addition to reporting trends on the third round (FY 04) of the No Child Left Behind, Title II, Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, the 2006 report also includes general state policy…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Program Evaluation, Educational Research, Access to Computers