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Kolbe, Tammy; McLaughlin, Margaret J.; Mason, Loretta M. – Education Law Center, 2007
The Education Law Center (ELC) sought an independent review of special education funding in New Jersey as part of a larger group of studies intended to critique the cost study conducted by Augenblick and Palaich and Associates (APA) and the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) and inform the ongoing public debate. In doing so, ELC recognized…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Policy Analysis, Program Effectiveness
Coleman, Sandra; And Others – 1994
This language arts unit of study for high ability learners in grades 5-6 highlights persuasion in oral and written form, focusing especially on oral communication. Emphasis is placed on providing evidence for opinions. Students must cite passages from literature to defend their points of view in discussion as well as in written arguments.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Change, Computer Software, Critical Reading
Morris, Cathy; Brann, Herman I. – 1993
In November 1992, the Ford Foundation published a study entitled "State Higher Education Systems and College Completion," which argued that states that relied heavily on community colleges in their postsecondary educational system, such as California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, were not efficient in producing bachelor degree (BA)…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Criticism
Hornbostel, Julia – 1986
An interesting approach to the topic of women and literature is to see if the real working roles of women have been reflected in fiction. As delineated in novels, women are seen engaged in: (l) farm labor; (2) jobs that are extensions of their nurturing roles; (3) factory work--especially in the early textile and clothing mills; and (4) housework…
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Content Analysis, Employed Women
Moore-Smith, Mary – 1984
Modern black poetry has emerged as an art form whose viewpoint (theme), style (structure), and language (diction and usage) focus on a particular kind of sensibility and consciousness in conflict with the world in which the poetry moves. The black aesthetic addresses the consciousness of blackness and deplores traditional poetic niceties in favor…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Dialects
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a series providing continuing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the rhetoric of scientific controversy; (2) Erving Goffman's interactional theory of communication conduct; (3) a phenomenology of feminism; (4) a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) Victorian ideology and British children's literature from 1850 to 1914, (2) a comparison of passages from books for adults and for children, (3) the use and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Aging (Individuals), Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1977
The document is a transcript of the radio program, "Options in Education," for the week of July 4, 1977. Broadcast by member stations of the National Public Radio System, the program is an electronic weekly magazine devoted to the coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education. The issues highlighted in this…
Descriptors: American Culture, Attitude Change, Dialogs (Literary), Educational Change
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: confessional rhetoric in the poetry of Anne Sexton, rhetorical criticism, the Hippocratic oath, messages communicated through team sports as a medium of social interaction, the silent…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Athletics, Black Dialects
Hyndman, Roger, Ed. – 1963
Individual approaches to the reading and study of 14 modern poems that have proved their worth and appeal to adolescents are offered in this publication. The poems--by such poets as Marianna Moore, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, and Robinson Jeffers--are reprinted; and each is followed by a discussion in which a high school teacher…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction
Watson, Ken, Ed. – 1976
One in a series of annual publications, this booklet contains reviews of books relating to the teaching of English and the language arts. The books are divided into 11 categories: teaching principles and practice; source books and course books; composition, writing, rhetoric; beginning reading; language and oral work; prose; poetry; drama; mass…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Book Reviews, Drama, Educational Resources
Contemporary Puerto Rican, Cuban-in-Exile, and Mexican-American Literature in a Pluralistic Society.
Clarke, Gerard R. – Bulletin (Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association), 1975
The purpose of this paper is to explore the attitudes of the Spanish-speaking people living in the United States as expressed in their prose, poetry, and drama. The scope of the paper includes the literature of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexican Americans in the United States written between 1960 and 1973. The literature is surveyed to uncover…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cubans
Trevino, Albert Dwight – 1974
There has been no specific, detailed study, accompanied by pedagogical apparatus, of Mexican-American literature available for use in the high school English classroom. This study shows that there is a significant amount of Mexican-American literature which can be incorporated effectively into a high school literature program to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Report of the Yale Conference on the Teaching of English (16th, Yale University, April 10-11, 1970).
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Graduate School. – 1970
Four speeches illustrating important principles in the teaching of English are collected in this booklet: (1) "The Teaching of Writing as Art" by William E. Coles, Jr., who, in posing ambiguous, provocative questions as writing assignments, compels the student to explore language in its relationship to his experience and his persona; (2)…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, College Instruction, Comedy, Drama
Spencer, John, Ed. – 1964
Two monographs are included in this volume--Enkvist's "On Defining Style, an Essay in Applied Linguistics," and Spencer and Gregory's "An Approach to the Study of Style." The first monograph discusses the history of stylistics (linguistic and literary), different approaches to the problem of definition of style theory, and offers some remarks on…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)