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Beard, Vickie McRee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Children spend at least seven and a half hours or 46.9% of their waking hours in the school setting, which brings a unique responsibility to schools (Beighle, Erwin, Morgan, & Alderman, 2012). School systems are expected to educate children according to adopted state standards and encourage a healthy, active lifestyle. The concept then is to…
Descriptors: Recess Breaks, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: At the close of the first decade of the 21st century, the intersection of race, geography and opportunity is increasingly referred to as spatial racism. School quality and resources, municipal services, employment opportunities, accessibility of transportation, exposure to pollution, and tax rates all vary dramatically across a…
Descriptors: School Policy, School Desegregation, Urban Schools, Housing
Hood, Lucy – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
To platoon or not to platoon? That's the question facing Irving Hamer, Deputy Superintendent of Academic Operations, Technology and lnnovation for the Memphis City Schools. This year for the first time, the state's achievement test, Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), will include algebraic concepts on the 5th-grade test. Of the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Algebra