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Niemz, Gunter – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Provides a concise overview of geography education in Germany from the 18th century to the present.Outlines concerns that include the incorporation of the old East German school system and employment problems for German youth. Tables summarize geography curricula throughout different periods. (MJP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Objectives
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Cooper, Robert – Urban Education, 2000
Examines one community's efforts to fundamentally alter a high school's structure, curriculum, and instructional practices to provide greater educational opportunities for all students. The program used heterogeneous grouping in tandem with curricular and pedagogical changes. Student surveys indicated that the program was moderately successful in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Classroom Environment
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Britto, Pia Rebello; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Examined associations between individual dimensions of the home literacy environment and specific emergent literacy skills among low-income preschoolers. Found that three dimensions of family literacy environments--language and verbal interactions, learning climate, and social and emotional climate--differentially foster preschool children's…
Descriptors: Blacks, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
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Ruohomaki, Virpi – Simulation & Gaming, 2003
This article introduces development and design approaches to organizational change (DIL). Simulation games can be used for promoting organizational development. They offer an arena for organization members to analyze the present state of an organization and create new organizational solutions. The bridge between the present and future mode of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Organizational Change, Information Technology, Organizational Development
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Johnson, C. Denise; Altland, Vicki – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2004
The purpose of this article is to describe how a collaborative partnership between a public school teacher and university teacher-educator positively influenced their thinking about effective literacy practices in schools. The collaboration began when the two attended a state initiative summer literacy project. During the workshop they engaged in…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, College Faculty, Teacher Educators, Cooperation
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Benitez, Margarita; DeAro, Jessie – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2004
This chapter highlights the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in promoting the academic success of minority students and discusses successful strategies used by several Hispanic-Serving community colleges. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Hispanic American Students, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This August 13, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Don't Be That Guy" (Ben-Al, Sarah; Sterritt, David); (2) "A Diverse…
Descriptors: Career Development, Higher Education, Diversity (Faculty), Sociology
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Furlong, Michael J.; Whipple, Angela D.; St. Jean, Grace; Simental, Jenne; Soliz, Alicia; Punthuna, Sandy – California School Psychologist, 2003
This article discusses the school engagement literature and offers a conceptual framework with the intention of developing a common terminology to more efficiently organize research and practice. Three distinct perspectives are outlined in relation to school engagement: psychological, educational, and developmental. Four main contexts of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, At Risk Students, Educational Environment, Child Development
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Guo, Chorng-Jee; Chang, Huey-Por – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2004
The new Science and Technology Curriculum Framework recently issued in Taiwan advocates the teaching of integrated science and technology with greater emphasis on basic skills. Science teachers are not used to teach in this way, they need different abilities and skills in order to do so. Using various effective professional development strategies,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Junior High Schools
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Thoman, Elizabeth; Jolls, Tessa – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Today information about the world around people comes to them not only through words on a piece of paper, but more and more through the powerful images and sounds of their multimedia culture. This explosion in information has presented a major challenge to the world of formal education. The transformation of their culture from an industrial age to…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Guidelines, Internet, Values
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Skiba, Russell J.; Simmons, Ada B.; Ritter, Shana; Kohler, Kristin R.; Wu, Tony C. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2003
Racial disparities in special and gifted education cannot be understood independently of a broad legacy of racial inequity woven into American public education. The results of a qualitative study illustrate the context within which minority disproportionality occurs. School respondents agreed with the NRC panel's conclusion that poverty makes an…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, High Stakes Tests, Social Influences, Special Education
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Fuligni, Andrew J.; Hardway, Christina – Future of Children, 2004
Whether adolescents from immigrant and ethnic minority families will make a successful transition to adulthood hinges on their educational achievement, their acquisition of employable skills and abilities, and their physical and mental health. This article focuses on the extent to which diverse adolescents are prepared for adulthood according to…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Health Insurance, Adolescents, Immigrants
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Reichman, Nancy E. – Future of Children, 2005
In the United States black women have for decades been twice as likely as white women to give birth to babies of low birth weight who are at elevated risk for developmental disabilities. Does the black-white disparity in low birth weight contribute to the racial disparity in readiness? The author summarizes the cognitive and behavioral problems…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Medical Services, Body Weight, School Readiness
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Horst, Marlise; Cobb, Tom; Nicolae, Ioana – Language Learning & Technology, 2005
University students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-builder, hypertext, and a database with interactive self-quizzing feature (all freely available at www.lextutor.ca). The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted…
Descriptors: Sentences, Textbooks, Word Lists, Computers
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Hammerman, James K.; Rubin, Andee – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
New software tools for data analysis provide rich opportunities for representing and understanding data. However, little research has been done on how learners use these tools to think about data, nor how that affects teaching. This paper describes several ways that learners use new software tools to deal with variability in analyzing data,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers
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