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Direct linkBaum, Susan – Roeper Review, 2023
Marcia Gentry personified a life well-lived. In this tribute to her work and legacy, her early ideas are highlighted. The author describes her professional experiences with Marcia during the years when Marcia was a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. Recalling her initial motivation for a more inclusive form of identification of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Inclusion, Identification, Gifted Education
Honig, Michal; Porat, Dan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
We examined the response of high school students in Israel to biographical texts. Students were exposed to three sub-genres of biographical texts (a literary-biographical text, an autobiographical text and a scientific-biographical text). These texts all differ from the conceptual schema of ordinary school texts. The data were collected from 64…
Descriptors: Biographies, High School Students, Literary Genres, Autobiographies
Tannehill, Deborah – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Purpose: Social theory of learning speaks to the social nature of our lives and our attempts to understand both what and how we learn from it. My experiences are built upon and reside with the social context in which they evolved. In this lecture, I will focus on my own experiences and how I interpreted them through social theory of learning that…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Educator Education, Biographies, Personal Narratives
Download full textCouncil of the Great City Schools, 2004
The Council of the Great City Schools, the nation's primary coalition of large urban public school systems, has prepared this report to summarize its recommendations to the District of Columbia about improving student achievement in its public schools. Specifically, the Council was asked to determine why reading and math achievement in the DC…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Public Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Monroe, Walter Scott – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The arithmetic with which the American schoolboy of the twentieth century wrestles differs in many respects from the "cyphering" which was truly a stumbling block to many a child in colonial days. Not only have there been significant changes in the subject matter of arithmetic, but also in the aim of instruction, in the place of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Mathematics Instruction
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The bibliography contained in this bulletin was completed in the year 1913-1914. The sources of information used in the compilation of this bibliography were publications received by the United States Bureau of Education. Documents are classified by the following categories: (1) Generalities; (2) History and description; (3) Biography; (4) Theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational History, Educational Practices
