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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"American Education"”.
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The Premier Demand Upon American Education
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American Education and the Black Girl
<p> <strong>ABSTRACT </strong></p> <p>American educators often view the Black girl as aggressive, defiant, and too challenging to educate, leading to disparities in disciplinary responses between the Black girl and her peers. This study aimed to examine the experiences of the Black girl in the K-12 …
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Jihad and American Education: An Examination of Textbook Inclusion
This study investigates what impact has the American educational system had in conveying the religious ideals of Islam within high school classrooms and has classroom discussions dealing with the societal profiles of Muslims been proactive or passive in dealing with this controversial issue? The …
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The Selling of American Education to the God of Technology
The presence of new technology in American education is largely unquestioned. Technology is a product of a particular economic and political context and carries with it an agenda that requires scrutiny, criticism, and control. This paper scrutinizes the impact of computers in the secondary …
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The crisis in American education: The impact on vocational education
… and evaluation of the problems in the American education system which is failing American citizens by annually producing thousands of illiterates. Moreover, schools are failing to provide an adequate number of skilled workers for government, the military, and business and industry, and …
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The Course of Study in American Education: Past, Present and Future
… development of curriculum guides from Germany to American educational practices of today. The second was to analyze a set of older and a set of contemporary curriculum guides. The historical section was prepared through extensive library research, analysis of old and rare guides and consultations …
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An Examination of Radical Critics of American Education, 1965 to 1985
From 1965 to 1988 there emerged and proliferated a trend of historical revisionism which reexamined the relationship schooling had with the dynamics of the market society. The key authors utilized a social-organizational perspective for their analysis with few recommendations or suggestions on how …
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Decision-Making in Migrant Mexican-American Education in an Illinois Community
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317550.pdf: 4910888 bytes, checksum: 9c42e575c1450060a8fd67a4e3aebad0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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From Chautauqua to Wastelands: The Bestors and American education - 1905-1955
… of some of the forces which have helped to shape American attitudes towards learning and schooling. In an attempt better to explain these forces, it looks in depth at a particular educational controversy which took place in the 1950s, and at the philosophy of education of one of the participants …
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Problematizing diversity in American education: language and curriculum as catalysts for change
Diversity in American education is problematic. The language that both defines and exemplifies diversity is unclear, which produces competing definitions of diversity. As a result, diversity in American education is constructed as a composite of differences between student groups, which include: …
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Parent and teacher perspectives on Congolese students in the American education system
… set of challenges as they begin to navigate the American education system after immigrating to the United States. They often utilize different home literacy practices from American parents (Heath, 1982) and have different practices for socializing their children into their language and culture …
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Transforming the American Education System: A Program Evaluation of a School District’s 1:1 Chromebook Pilot
… 1:1 program on the learning process and educational experience for students and teachers. The participants attend two high schools of a high-performing public-school district in an affluent Chicago suburb. The following research questions guide the program evaluation:</p> <ul> <li>What is …
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The contribution of John Lounsbury to the development of the middle school movement in American education : an oral history.
… position as professor and dean of the School of Education at Georgia College and State University two decades ago, he is still actively involved in the National Middle School Association and is the senior publications editor for the organization. This dissertation describes his career and his …
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Reverential language in American education: why we started calling teachers heroes and how language is at the root of broken school systems
… and folklore, used to describe teachers in educational and political spaces, as well as public media, is deeply detrimental to progressive initiatives in public school systems across the United States. Through an examination of the history of our modern public school system in the United …
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"A Content Analysis of a Sample of Articles Written on Education in ""The New York Times"
… dissertation is to sample articles written on education in the New York Times during a select period. A content analysis was performed on a stratified random sample of 555 newspaper articles identified in the New York Times from 1993 to 1997. The data revealed 168 themes and issues across the …
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God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961
… areas that are seldom studied in the history of American education. A primary theme focuses on the role of Christianity in shaping the broad educational policy and classroom practices of an African American school. A second theme looks at the central role played by Burroughs, affording the …
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Critical Thinking Skills as Related to University Students Gender and Academic Discipline.
<p>For a number of years the educational community has recognized the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to all students; however, a shift in educational pedagogy and philosophy has occurred. Through recent legislation the funding of educational institutions that demonstrate …
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An Evaluation of Phonetics in Selected Initial Reading Programs
… Phonics has played a dramatic role in American education since the time of its advent in the nation's schools. It has been in good and ill repute, in and out of the schools. There is probably no area of instruction in the elementary schools today about which there are so many …
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The impact of hiring chief diversity officers on college student diversity.
… become an increasingly important component of American education. In the past decade, many postsecondary educational institutions have established long-term goals to increase minority representation and inclusivity among both student bodies and faculty members by gender and major racial groups. …
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