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Juan F. Carrillo; Noah Karvelis – Critical Education, 2023
Historically "Red States" in the United States offer an example of the complex intersections of public education, race, conservative politics, language, and power/resistance which teachers live and work amongst. This article considers these intersections by focusing on the experiences and reflections of a former red state teacher and…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Urban Schools, Political Influences, Teacher Attitudes
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Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2019
As climate change contracts our environment, bringing human and nonhuman communities into increased contact and conflict over scarce resources, advocacy rhetoric is making a related shift, from raising human awareness of problems "out there" to renegotiating the very boundaries between human and nonhuman communities. This shift--along…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Advocacy, Climate, Change
Tollefson, James W. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In some settings, medium of instruction (MOI) policies in multilingual education break out into public debates in mass media involving politicians, business leaders, government officials, parents, and school children. These public discussions of MOI often index struggles over the distribution of political power and economic resources, and issues…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Formation, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction
Grossman, Gloria P. – Social Studies Teacher, 1987
Describes a study designed to determine political attitudes and knowledge of prospective and practicing Arizona teachers and to ascertain how this correlates with reported teaching styles. Results indicate the sample was knowledgeable and capable of providing citizenship education, the separate samples differed in teaching style and attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Attitudes, Political Influences
Smith, Mary Lee – 1996
In 1991 Arizona embarked on a program to change schools and make them more accountable for educational achievement. The instrument of reform was an assessment program known as the Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP), the most notable feature of which was a performance assessment that was added to an already extensive battery of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Culture, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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Amerman, Stephen Kent – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
In the fall of 1972, as Michael Hughes began his junior year at East High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he was one of only a few American Indians in the school. Of the approximately 2,500 students, only 35--or about 1.4 percent--were Indian. To most teachers, administrators, and even fellow students, he and the other Native students in this large,…
Descriptors: Activism, Dropout Rate, American Indian Education, American Indian History