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Marks, Rachel – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
The use of structured ability grouping is increasing in English primary schools and is regularly seen in primary mathematics classrooms. Ability is a normalised discourse with beliefs that some individuals are "born to do maths" permeating society and infiltrating school practices. In this article, observation and interview data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Ability Grouping, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Orsati, Fernanda T.; Causton-Theoharis, Julie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Describing students with disabilities as presenting "challenging behavior" is common in US schools. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the discourse utilized by teachers in order to understand their beliefs and practices surrounding young students considered to present challenging behavior. This study examines teachers' language in…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes
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Graham, Sandra; Taylor, April; Hudley, Cynthia – Urban Education, 2015
A 12-week, 32-lesson afterschool intervention was conducted with third-to fifth-grade urban African American boys classified as aggressive. Grounded in attribution theory and organized around the construct of perceived responsibility in self and others, the intervention focused on increasing both social skills and academic motivation. Participants…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Aggression, Intervention
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Gilpin, Lorraine – Teacher Education and Practice, 2005
Black Caribbean immigrant women teachers perceive and interact with African American students on multiple levels. This article highlights how the Black Caribbean immigrant teachers' perceptions of schooling in the United States echo the perspectives of African Americans; how the participants' actions and goals as teachers mirror the…
Descriptors: African American Community, Immigrants, African American Teachers, African American Students