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Savitz-Romer, Mandy; Jager-Hyman, Joie – TERi (The Education Resources Institute, Inc), 2009
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to identify and summarize research on the scope, characteristics and impact of academic and social support services for students. Several reports on academic rigor have also been included to establish a context for the importance of social and academic support. The bibliography is divided into five…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Annotated Bibliographies, Student Personnel Services, Student Needs
Tienda, Marta – Educational Testing Service, 2009
This publication reproduces the keynote address delivered by the author at the annual conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) in March 2009, in San Antonio, Texas. In her essay, the author discusses the significance of the growing Hispanic presence through the lens of education. To frame the challenges--and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Population Growth, Disproportionate Representation
Lawrence, Arul A. S. – Online Submission, 2015
The XX IDEA annual conference has been focused and reflected on different ways and means of meeting various kinds of methodological challenges, new technologies and multi-media developments, newly emerging partnerships and collaboration between emerging sectors on one hand and between the institutions functioning with similar objectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Barriers
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Vesely, Randall S.; Crampton, Faith E. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2007
The challenges in improving and sustaining success of children from multicultural backgrounds with disabilities in urban school districts manifest themselves in the contextual dynamics of legal, accountability, demographic, and fiscal terrains. Within each of these areas, educational leaders must solve existing problems of underservicing,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality
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Zoniou-Sideri, Athina; Vlachou, Anastasia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper is based on the argument that dominant beliefs and their associated assumptions are a core area of exploration in understanding the process of change and the politics of resistance in education. It commences with an analysis of the role, function and importance of beliefs in the development of special-inclusive education and continues…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Ghiaciuc, Susan; McIntyre, Ellen; Kyle, Diane; Sutherland, Melissa – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
The authors explore the ways current curricula continue to frustrate parental and student goals in the classroom, focusing on three separate ethnographic studies of subjects from African American, Appalachian, and Latino backgrounds. The researchers determine that, despite the idiographic nature of their individual studies, many marginalized…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Ethnography, Educational Change, Student Attitudes
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Jordan, Will J. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Defining equity within the context of a diverse, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural society, and one where social class strongly influences one's life chances is problematic. This chapter reexamines equity in an attempt to advance the discourse beyond the debate about strategies to close the achievement gap between White…
Descriptors: Social Class, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
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Lee, Okhee; Buxton, Cory – Elementary School Journal, 2008
We address issues of science curriculum for nonmainstream students--students of color, students learning English as a new language, and students from low-income families--who are often concentrated in urban schools. First, we describe a theoretical framework for equitable learning opportunities with nonmainstream students. Building on this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Urban Schools, Research and Development, Curriculum Design
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Ashbaker, Betty Y.; Wilder, Lynn K. – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2006
In recent years, the majority of new immigrants to the United States have settled in rural areas, creating unique challenges for special education administrators. In this article, we discuss the details of the challenges to rural schools in meeting the requirements of the federal mandates, especially No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act passed in 2001…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Special Education, Immigrants, Educational Legislation
Banilower, Eric R.; Smith, P. Sean; Weiss, Iris R.; Malzahn, Kristen A.; Campbell, Kiira M.; Weis, Aaron M. – Horizon Research, Inc., 2013
The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Teacher Background
Children's Aid Society, 2007
This annual report illustrates the breadth and scope of the Children's Aid community schools strategy developed to serve as a tool in overcoming the challenges to education presented by immigration and poverty. The report includes a brief history of the organization and its commitment to the education of New York City children, a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Urban Schools, Poverty, Barriers
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Maher, Michael J.; Sever, Linda M. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
Previous research indicated that Catholic high schools in the United States were not addressing the topic of homosexuality in any significant and systematic way prior to the mid-1990s, though practitioners in Catholic high schools have begun to address the topic in recent years. This study, in sampling seven Catholic schools in the greater Chicago…
Descriptors: Social Bias, School Culture, High Schools, Catholic Schools
Dickert-Conlin, Stacy, Ed.; Rubenstein, Ross, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
The vast disparities in college attendance and graduation rates between students from different class backgrounds is a growing social concern. "Economic Inequality and Higher Education" investigates the connection between income inequality and unequal access to higher education, and proposes solutions that the state and federal governments and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Graduation Rate, College Attendance
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Lucas, Samuel R.; Beresford, Lauren – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Education names and classifies individuals. This result seems unavoidable. For example, some students will graduate, and some will not. Those who graduate will be "graduates"; those who do not graduate will be labeled otherwise. The only way to avoid such labeling is to fail to make distinctions of any kind. Yet education is rife with…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Inferences
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Angelides, Panayiotis – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2004
Within the last decade, the government of Cyprus has encouraged and supported the education of children assessed as having special needs into the mainstream educational system. With the existing arrangements, however, many pupils who experience difficulties within schools (and many of those are pupils who have been integrated from special schools)…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Disabilities
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