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Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1996
This paper presents information regarding two university field programs in two elementary schools in New Orleans (Louisiana), serving culturally diverse children, and it attempts to reveal the influences of each school context on preservice teachers' acquisition of pedagogical content knowledge, their concerns and dilemmas, and their frames of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Context Effect, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Philosophy
Osborn, Marilyn; And Others – 1994
This paper reports on findings from a 1990-93 PACE (Primary Assessment, Curriculum and Experience) study concerning the impact of the United Kingdom's Education Reform Act on teachers' professional perspectives and responses to change. Data are drawn from interviews with a national sample of 88 teachers and more intensive classroom study…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Sherwood, Charles – 1993
Despite a growing trend toward retention in grade of low-achieving students and apparent public support for the practice, many educators and psychologists disagree with the perception that flunking is an appropriate response to poor academic performance. Research reported in the past two decades indicates that grade-level retention produces little…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Standards, Dropout Rate
Schultz, Debra L.; And Others – 1993
"Political correctness" has recently been appropriated by organizations and individual advocates seeking to attack and focus negative media attention on reforms in higher education. This report documents both the facts and media distortions that have shaped almost a decade of campus debate on affirmative action, multicultural and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Conservatism, Curriculum Development, Ethnic Groups
Chafe, Doug – 1984
Reviewing research on grade retention, this paper describes tools and guidelines developed as an aid in retention decisions and examines actual promotion/retention policies and practices. Most research on academic and social effects of grade retention suffers from poor methodology, leaving the conclusions suspect and the results contradictory. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education
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McMichael, Paquita; Irvine, Rob – Scottish Educational Review, 1983
A questionnaire administered at Edinburgh's Moray House College of Education examined attitudes toward education/schools/teachers, indicated student social and community workers found school less expressively/instrumentally rewarding than did student primary teachers. Concludes that some problems of interprofessional communication between teachers…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Communication Problems, Cooperation, Educational Attitudes
Cooper, Camille Wilson – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
In this article, the author discusses African American mothers' beliefs about the negative impact that teacher bias can have on students' self-esteem and academic achievement. She draws from in-depth interview data to highlight mothers' opinions of, and experiences with, teachers they characterize as "unqualified" and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Bias, Teacher Influence
Uphoff, James K. – 1995
Research shows that many primary grade students need extra-year options and benefit from them as they start their schooling. This book provides information about school readiness and transition programs in the United States, documenting the need for and success of such programs as a countermeasure to grade retention, as well as the negative…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Fenton, Ray; Nancarrow, Douglas – 1986
Failure to take into account the need to train teachers to deal with prejudicial statements and negative racial attitudes contributed to the failure of a 2-week unit on Alaska Native Land Claims designed for inclusion in an 11th grade American Government course in the Anchorage (Alaska) School District. The unit--recommended by a parent group and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Communication Skills, Cultural Education
Grove, Cornelius Lee – 1983
Exchange programs of a month or less are unlikely to have many of the positive outcomes of more extended intercultural experiences. Worse, very short exchange programs (VSPs) may even have some undesirable outcomes. Positive outcomes not attainable through VSPs are: (1) development of long-lasting positive relationships and attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
PEARCE, FRANK C. – 1966
THIS REPORT, THE EIGHTH IN A SERIES OF STUDIES ON THE NEW HOPE PROJECT, DISCUSSES THE PROJECT'S EFFECT ON THE WELFARE ROLLS OF STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. NEW HOPE PROPOSES TO EDUCATE WELFARE RECIPIENTS BY MODIFYING THEIR ATTITUDES AND DEVELOPING SKILLS NECESSARY FOR THEM TO BECOME CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED. INSTRUCTION INCLUDES BASIC EDUCATION,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Economic Research, Educational Background, Educational Programs
California Univ., Berkeley. – 1976
Proceedings are summarized of a national conference which explored the nature and consequences of prejudice in adolescents and developed strategies for its reduction in the schools. Held in 1976, the conference was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the University of California's School of Education. Participants included…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anti Semitism, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1975
This study evaluates the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused black students. Differences in achievement gains or losses are hypothesized as being both a function of bused students attitudes toward busing and desegregation and of the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. Findings from data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Black Attitudes, Bus Transportation
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Yedidia, Michael J.; Berry, Carolyn A. – Academic Medicine, 1999
Study of 394 physicians graduating in 1989 from six New York medical schools found that certain residency-training factors had sustained effects on physician behavior in caring for AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) patients, but not on the number of patients treated. Determinants of treatment practice included residency environment,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Environment
Wu, Shi-Chang – 1992
This paper explores the practical implications of the distributional perspective on dropping out of school--a perspective that says that the concentration of student exodus from certain schools may reflect the impact of contextual or organizational factors as opposed to those that operate simply at the individual level. Based on data from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Classroom Environment
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