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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"New York School"”.
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The Influence of Placement in a Co-Taught Inclusive Classroom on the Academic Achievement of General Education Students on the 2014 New York State ELA and Mathematics Assessments in Grades 6-8 in a Suburban New York School District
… education students in Grades 6-8 in a suburban New York school district on the 2014 New York State ELA and Mathematics Assessments. Propensity score matching was utilized to select the sample to provide a balanced sampling technique. The final sample was comprised of 746 students in Grades 6-8 …
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Fourth and Fifth Grade Teachers’ Perspectives of the Benefits of Incorporating Cooperative Learning Activities
… fourth and fifth grade teachers in a western New York school district to get their perspectives on cooperative learning activities and how they incorporate these activities into their classrooms. The teachers were provided a nine question survey where they were asked to answer questions about …
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A Study of Reporting Methods in the Penfield Central School District Number One
… evaluates reporting methods in an upstate New York school district during the 1959-1960 academic year. It focuses on teachers’ need to communicate more information to parents than merely their child’s grades. The researcher presents a list of markers for effective teacher-parent …
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… Philip Guston. Discourse regarding avant-garde New York School artists and their knowledge and manipulation of Existentialism has an illustrious rollcall. Dore Ashton and Harold Rosenberg, amongst others have added their powers of exegesis to contemporary work by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, …
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Reading Achievement of General Education Children in Blended Classes
… 64, sixth grade students from a rural Western New York school district, the examiner attempted to determine if the current practice of integrating special needs students into the regular classroom has any effect on the reading achievement of the general education student. To accomplish this, …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… a poem with a work of visual art, from his New York School predecessor Frank O’Hara. “The Breeders’ Cup” addresses Édouard Manet’s 1865 painting <em>Olympia </em>through ekphrasis, and the painting of a prostitute becomes a patron saint of parody for postmodern poetics. The poem introduces …
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Assessment of Growth of Moral Development in Children Through Literature
… Twenty-eight 3rd graders from a suburban western New York school were examined, including 11 boys and 17 girls ages 8-9. The researcher uses a student survey to gauge initial student opinions/attitudes about honesty and respect. Students then undergo an 11 day classroom program in which they focus …
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The Effect of Graphic Organizers on the Writing of Students in a Second Grade Classroom
… the ages of seven and eight from a rural western New York school district participated in this study. The study involved having each student compose two separate writing samples that were then analyzed to determine their grade level complexity. A counterbalance design was used. On the first …
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An Investigation Into How Children With Learning Disabilities View Themselves as Compared to Their Regular Education Counterparts
… 23 third grade students from a suburban western New York school district were administered the Pier-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. Six of the students were labeled with learning disabilities. The responses to this scale were divided into subsets to determine Self-Concept in the areas of …
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Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry
… of the critically neglected second-generation New York school. I argue that Brainard and Waldman help define the emerging discourse of postmodern poetry through their attention to cold war culture of the 1970s, countercultural ideologies, and poetic form. Both Brainard and Waldman enact a …
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Survival Tips For A Parallel Universe
… from the invention and tradition of the New York School of poetry, it also attempts a new way of speaking—and, in turn, a new way of knowing.
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Multi-Disciplinary Modernism: Peggy Guggenheim and Art of This Century
… an integral role in the development of the New York School and Abstract Expressionism, which led to the shift in the international art center from Paris to New York. Art of This Century was key in ushering in the second generation of avant-garde galleries in New York. And finally, Art of …
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Attitudes Towards Women Among Inner-City Seventh Graders
… study were enrolled in an inner-city, upstate New York school district. The subjects were selected at random. Two hundred and fifty-three students constituted the population sampled. Group responses, using a Likert scale of, strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree, were analyzed …
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Rules of Disorder: A Comparative Study of Student Discipline
This dissertation is a comparative study of school discipline in the United States and in Greece. It examines the effect that schools, particularly their organizational form and rules, have upon the behavior of students and how this behavior is understood and categorized. The empirical findings …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
… in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this paradigm as a way of privileging post-war abstraction as an evolutionary triumph that left the more narrative art of the pre-war era behind. In this thesis, I argue for a reconfiguration of this …
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Teachers’ Targets for Reading Instruction and what these Suggest
… selected faculty members from a rural western New York school district, representing a wide range of experience levels in grades K through 6. Teachers were also given the opportunity to freely respond by stating their own articulated goals for reading instruction. The objective was to answer …
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I Ain't Do Nothing: The Social and Academic Experiences of Black Males in a Dismantled School
… eighth grade males attending an urban middle school dismantled in the midst of mandated educational reform in a Central New York school district. Some of the students were the victims of repeated school closures and were left behind because of a lack of space in other schools as a result of …
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A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950--1970
… pieces he composed during the early 1950s in a new notational format of his own invention, focusing especially on the influence of contemporary gesture painting on those works' style and on the compositional processes that gave rise to them. In those early years of his career, Feldman …
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The Decision to Pursue the Principalship: Perspectives of Certified Administrators in Upstate Central New York
… administrative positions in Upstate Central New York (CNY) public schools by exploring the perspectives of both practicing principals and those that are certified but not currently employed in an administrative position. The study posed three research questions. First, how do educators who …
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The Poetry of Tom Raworth (1961-1986)
… Raworth’s work. This is achieved through renewed attention to his 1969 ‘novel’ and lesser-known poems in prose from the same period, filtered through the lens of his contemporary opinions (gleaned from extensive and unpublished correspondence) of what he regarded as authentic social realism …
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