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Naresh, Nirmala – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Workplace mathematics, a subgroup of research on everyday mathematics and ethnomathematics documents the mathematical activities of both adults and children outside school settings. In this paper, I document the mental mathematical activities of a group of bus conductors in Chennai, India. I draw into the research areas of mental computation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Literacy, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Skills
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Cook, Simon; Davidson, Anna; Stratford, Elaine; Middleton, Jennie; Plyushteva, Anna; Fitt, Helen; Cranston, Sophie; Simpson, Paul; Delaney, Hannah; Evans, Kate; Jones, Amy; Kershaw, Jonathan; Williams, Nina; Bissell, David; Duncan, Tara; Sengers, Frans; Elvy, Joanna; Wilmott, Clancy – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
In an experimental session entitled "Co-Producing Mobilities" held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings), Instruction
UK Department for Education, 2019
This is statutory guidance from the Department for Education. The guidance refers to legislation regarding the provision of transport to post-16 education and training for young people of sixth form age and legislation regarding the provision of transport to post-19 education and training for those aged 19 to 25 and for whom an Education, Health…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Postsecondary Education, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Degrow, Ben – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2019
In Michigan's lower-income urban communities, where educational options are most heavily in demand, accessing the most suitable and desired schools is often limited by the availability and affordability of convenient transportation. Michigan could support low-income families' efforts to transport their children to better schools and boost these…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Access to Education, Family Programs, School Choice
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Chahine, Iman C.; Naresh, Nirmala – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
Studies on cognition have capitalized on the role of contexts and experience in shaping our cognitive competence. In the past few decades, the mathematical education research field has begun to pay increased attention to the mathematics practices of both adults and children that take place in non-academic settings. As a result, theoretical fields…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vendors, Employees, Bus Transportation
Cordes, Sarah A.; Weinstein, Meryle; Rick, Christopher; Schwartz, Amy Ellen – Grantee Submission, 2020
This article explores inequity in access to and provision of bus service across student sociodemographic groups and examines possible barriers to bus access and utilization. To so do, we use administrative data on New York City K-6 public school students from 2011-2017, including information on race/ethnicity, poverty status, distance from home to…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Racial Differences
Stein, Marc L.; Grigg, Jeffrey; Cronister, Curt; Chavis, Celeste; Connolly, Faith – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2017
This report is the first publication of a multi-year project examining the relationship between student commutes using public transportation and on-time arrival and absenteeism. This report begins to develop a basic understanding of how students commute to high school in Baltimore with a focus on those using public transportation. The report is…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, High School Students, Eligibility, Attendance
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Angell, Amber M.; Solomon, Olga – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
There are a number of recent US news media reports of children and youth with autism becoming lost, injured, or even dying while taking public school transportation, yet research on this problem is scarce. This ethnographic study examines the experiences of 14 parents whose children with autism take public school transportation in Los Angeles…
Descriptors: Parents, Children, Parent Child Relationship, Student Transportation
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Varela Mato, Veronica; Yates, Thomas; Stensel, David; Biddle, Stuart; Clemes, Stacy A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2017
This study explored the validity of ActiGraph-determined sedentary time (<50 cpm, <100 cpm, <150 cpm, <200 cpm, <250 cpm) compared with the activPAL in a free-living sample of bus drivers. Twenty-eight participants were recruited between November 2013 and February 2014. Participants wore an activPAL3 and ActiGraph GT3X+ concurrently…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Bus Transportation, Leisure Time, Daily Living Skills
Vermont Agency of Education, 2020
COVID-19 presents novel and unprecedented challenges to our society. The pandemic is placing our economic system, our system of government and every sector and area of human life under great stress, and forcing us to raise to the challenge in new ways. Education is no exception. Educating students, ensuring they make progress, and safeguarding…
Descriptors: Disease Control, School Closing, Online Courses, School Safety
Nicastro, Chris L. – Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2012
The revised minimum standards for school bus chassis and school bus bodies have been prepared in conformity with the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo) for school bus transportation. The standards recommended by the 2010 National Conference on School Transportation and the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) promulgated by the U. S.…
Descriptors: Safety, Student Transportation, Motor Vehicles, Bus Transportation
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Grauerholz, Liz; Settembrino, Marc – Teaching Sociology, 2016
In this article, we describe an adaptation of Nichols, Berry, and Kalogrides's "Hop on the Bus" exercise. In addition to riding the bus, we incorporated a visual component similar to that developed by Whitley by having students conduct a sociological, photographic exercise after they disembarked. Qualitative and quantitative assessment…
Descriptors: Sociology, Bus Transportation, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Gross, Bethany; Denice, Patrick – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2017
Transportation remains a vexing concern in cities that offer students school choice. Time and again, research has shown that families typically want high-performing schools or schools with unique academic programs. But those schools tend to be concentrated in a city's affluent neighborhoods, often long distances from low-income households and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, School Choice, Urban Areas, Minority Group Students
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2019
In 2018 the Rhode Island (RI) Regulations Governing the Education of Children with Disabilities were revised to comply with the 2016 amendments to the RI Administrative Procedures Act. In this process members of the community requested that the RI Department of Education develop a companion document that maintained the relevant sections of the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, State Regulation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Hafner, Marco; Stepanek, Martin; Troxel, Wendy M. – RAND Europe, 2017
Numerous studies have shown that later school start times (SST) are associated with positive student outcomes, including improvements in academic performance, mental and physical health, and public safety. While the benefits of later SST are very well documented in the literature, in practice there is opposition against delaying SST. A major…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Cost Effectiveness, Sleep, Educational Attainment
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