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Cazers, Gunars; Curtner-Smith, Matthew – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2013
Purpose: The purpose was to reconstruct the historical and legendary contribution of one exemplary African American physical education teacher educator who lived and worked in the Deep South prior to and immediately following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education court case. The following questions guided data collection and analysis: To what…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Biographies, Physical Education Teachers, Educational History
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Jolly, Jennifer L. – Roeper Review, 2010
Florence L. Goodenough is not a name immediately associated with gifted education. Although she studied under two of the field's most recognized pioneers, Leta S. Hollingworth and Lewis Terman, her initial work in gifted education did not evolve into the mainstay of her research. This work discusses her contributions to gifted education, work in…
Descriptors: Gifted, Psychologists, Profiles, Scholarship
Maryland State Department of Education, 2016
The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), in conjunction with local school systems (LSS) and institutions of higher education (IHE), has conducted an annual educator supply and demand study since 1986, the original purpose of which was to determine critical teacher shortage areas. Although data are collected annually, since 2008 the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Shortage
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Solis, Federico; Kupczynski, Lori; Mundy, Marie-Anne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
Literature lacks documentation on the leadership characteristics of public community college faculty. As higher education institutions begin to prepare for what appears to be a current leadership retirement wave, it is important for community colleges to begin searching for replacements. The research was conducted to explore self-perceived…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Retirement, Employment Patterns
Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Hilger, Nathaniel; Saez, Emmanuel; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Yagan, Danny – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to different classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR using administrative records. We obtain five results. First, kindergarten test scores are highly correlated with outcomes such as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Small Classes, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten
Wassermann, Selma – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Education Professor emeritus reflects on 40-year teaching career at Simon Fraser University. Comments on Canada's mandatory retirement for professors at age 65. (PKP)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mandatory Retirement
Oram-Sterling, Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is a biographical study of the life of a retired high school principal in Jamaica. Joan Miller Wint was born on May 10, 1946, in the small rural district of Success in Westmoreland, Jamaica. This study of Wint's life centers on school transformation and organizational change, exploring her leadership as a principal through the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, High Schools, Mothers, Interviews