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Prystowsky, Richard J.; Miles, Charlie – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2000
Author and advocate for public school reform Herbert Kohl discusses vouchers; charter schools; home schooling; national academic standards; high stakes testing; the role of the arts, storytelling, and fun in education; countering school failure; and the importance of developing teacher communities that cut across public, private, and home school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Democracy, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
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Glines, Don – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2001
The present "factory" model of schooling is over 100 years old and continues many practices unsupported by research. School districts could implement research and development centers that investigate optional learning environments and lifestyles, implement unused research results, and offer a climate for developing new approaches and materials…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Reguera, Luis – Prospects, 1995
Asserts that vocational education for special education students is necessary for their self-esteem, independence, and integration into society. Maintains that current training is woefully inadequate since it emphasizes manual labor skills. Advocates the use of Individual Training Plans (ITP) to coordinate vocational, social, and cognitive aspects…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ortiz, Flora Ida; Gonzales, Rosa – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2000
This case study shows how joint organizational efforts and individual initiative counteracted social structures inhibiting Latino students' pursuit of higher education. A high school principal, university president, institutional units responsible for student preparation and access to college, students, and their parents created social…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Role, Case Studies, College Bound Students
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Beresford, Quentin – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Australian governments at both federal and state levels have collaborated for the past 15 years to lift Indigenous students from their position as the nation's most educationally disadvantaged group. The introduction in 1989 of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Plan was accompanied by an ambitious target of achieving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Indigenous Populations, Equal Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Antrop-Gonzalez, Rene; Velez, William; Garrett, Tomas – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
This article is intended to dispel the myth that Latinas and Latinos and other urban high school youths of color are not capable of performing at high academic levels. Much research shows that youths of color are underrepresented and underserved in gifted education programs. The authors describe the four success factors to which 10 working-class…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities
Glass, Ronald David; Wong, Pia Lindquist – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
Over the past decade or more, educators and policymakers have sought to define new directions for teacher education in order to address widely perceived failures to prepare teachers adequately for the challenges to be faced in schools, especially those serving the poor and English learners. As colleges of education and urban school districts have…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Schools of Education, Professional Development Schools, Teacher Education Programs
Elhoweris, Hala; Parameswaran, Gowri; Alsheikh, Negmeldin – Multicultural Education, 2004
In the last two decades the proportion of children of color in public schools in the U.S. has increased to about 40%. However, this has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in teachers of color. Many college and university teaching institutions have attempted to deal with the increase in the number of students of color in the public…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, College Students, Public Schools, Multicultural Education
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Zamani, Eboni M. – New Directions for Student Services, 2003
African American women hold a unique position as members of two groups that have been treated in a peripheral manner by postsecondary education (Moses, 1989). Membership in both marginalized groups often makes African American women invisible in colleges and universities. Given the complex intersection of race and gender, more attention should be…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Women Faculty, African American Teachers
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Baskakova, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
For many decades now the sphere of education in Russia has been considered to be among the most well off among other spheres of activity, from the standpoint of gender equality. One component of radical economic reforms in Russia in the 1990s was the transformation of education financing. During the reform years the number of students in higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2008
This document, British Columbia's Early Learning Framework, is intended to guide and support early childhood educators, StrongStart BC facilitators, early years professionals, service providers, communities and governments in providing rich early learning experiences for children from birth to kindergarten. The document may also be of interest for…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Inquiry
Stevenson, Kenneth R. – National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2006
In 2002, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) published the author's "Ten Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design" [ED467701], which received considerable attention and has been downloaded from the NCEF website by thousands of users. Here is an update by the author, with the ten trends expanded to twelve. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Trends, Educational Facilities, School Choice
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2006
The educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians have improved over recent decades. This is evident across a range of indicators on the enrolment, participation and achievement of Indigenous students in the early childhood education and school sectors. There has also been increased representation of Indigenous students in New Apprenticeships and…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Indigenous Populations, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
US Department of Education, 2006
This 2004 Annual Report to Congress has two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on the children and students being served under IDEA and provides profiles of individual states' special education environments and early intervention settings. It also includes tables of states rank-ordered by their reported data on exiting, dropouts, educational environments,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2006
The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (HEPC) has statutory responsibility for developing a six-year strategic plan for higher education in cooperation with the state's colleges and universities, policy makers, and other key constituencies. This master plan aims to coordinate the efforts of the various institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Educational Objectives
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