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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Public Schooling"”.
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Tracing the Threads: A Curriculum Study of the Dialogue of Otherness in the Histories of Public and Independent Schooling
… analysis that seeks to trouble the private/public distinction that is traditionally drawn in educational history and theory by examining the histories of public schools and independent schools around the topics of identity politics, accountability, and globalization. Although there is much …
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The Influence of Authentic Leadership in Creating Conditions for Optimal Learning: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
… challenges within the current construct of public schooling. Utilizing the lens of the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, this study examined the experiences of seven individuals who attempt to employ an authentic lens in the midst of political demands that define the bureaucratic …
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Desegregation in post-Brown Dallas, Texas: a historical narrative attributing the response and social activism efforts of African American Dallasites, 1950s-1970s
… committees had on the evolution of the public schooling experience in Dallas, Texas during the mid-twentieth century. It has a twofold purpose dating back to the eras commonly referred to as Plessy and Brown, respectively. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States presented …
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Educational inputs and student outcomes in South Africa
South Africa has a notoriously inefficient public schooling system. Levels of educational attainment and achievement are low given the large amount of resources devoted to schools. Improving student outcomes requires the examination of both family-back ground factors such as parental education and …
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The Public Sector's Experience and Response to Private Competition: The Case of Nepal
… satisfaction through choice and improvements in public schooling through competition. Skeptics are concerned about the loss of shared citizenship and the potential for further stratification as the government reduces its provider role in education. Despite the fact that both advocates and …
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Schooling for blacks in Henrico County, Virginia 1870-1933: with an emphasis on the contributions of Miss Virginia Estelle Randolph
… Before the establishment of free universal public schooling in Virginia in 1870, there was strong public opinion against the schooling of blacks. After the outbreak of the Civil War, various missionaries and philanthropic agencies strove to aid blacks; and the creation of the Freedmen's …
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Emancipatory education and democratic politics: An analysis of the sociological imagination in a first grade classroom
… hope and conviction about the possibility of public schooling in the US, and I move forward with renewed gusto.</p>
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Punjab’s Public Private Partnership Programmes in Education
… evaluates the effectiveness of Punjab’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) programmes in education. Using administrative data and data from a service delivery indicator survey, the study explores (i) access to PPP schooling, (ii) the impact of PPP schooling on public school enrolment, (iii) …
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CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN URBAN SCHOOLING: A GUIDE FOR CLASSROOM PRAXIS
… practices in contemporary American urban public schooling. Objectives for critical pedagogies are discussed and applied to various aspects of teaching and education, including urban schools and school systems as problematical institutions; establishing a healthy classroom climate and …
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(RE)CLAIMING THE INTELLIGENT HEART: A CRITICAL PEDAGOGUE'S JOURNEY TOWARD CONNECTED SCHOOLING
… Arts and Speech teacher across two different public high schools and two different school years. My story of learning to embody the values and practices of progressive teaching arises from the central research questions: "How can I, a self-identified progressive Language Arts educator …
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A Descriptive Study of PLATO As A Proposition For Regular Education Classrooms
The study describes the historical timeline for public schooling, multicultural education, educational trends and PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations). More specifically, the literature highlights the self-paced practice of PLATO. Since the luminescence of the healthcare …
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Equity and Excellence in Education: The Fiscal and Legal Implications
… the federal government provided more money to public schooling. The federally funded programs like Title I injected much needed categorical aid to many school districts. Similarly, many states sought to revise their general aid formulas in an attempt to achieve equity. But in the late 1970s and …
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The Home Schooling Movement in the United States: Historical Development, Contemporary Status and Legal Issues
Public schooling is usually the means by which children are socialized and enculturated, as they transmit the essential cultural knowledge and core values of a given society. However, this approach can become difficult when a society cannot agree on what shared values and knowledge should actually …
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Tale of two cultures: Hip-hop and schooling and the impact on African American identity and academic achievement
… identity, hip hop culture and relevance to the schooling of black youth through an analysis of existing literature and more so, African American youths sense of these connections. In so doing, it analyzes the various ways in facilitating black youths resistance and disengagement within the …
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Evangelicals and public education
… years manifested great dissatisfaction with public schooling. Because evangelicals represent a large segment of the American populace, their dissatisfaction has had a significant effect on the functioning of the public schools. More importantly, dissatisfaction on the part of evangelicals has …
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Characterizing the Adolescent Male Reader: A Narrative Inquiry into the Reading Lives of 12th Grade Boys Enrolled in IB Language A: Literature
… boys who are positioned at the end of their K-12 public schooling career and are finishing their second year in IB (International Baccalaureate) Language A: Literature HL (Higher Level). Narrative inquiry was employed to develop an understanding of the experiences that shaped the reading lives of …
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Improving the Practice and Culture of Early Learning in Ohio
<p>How can preschool programs situated in public schools “get better at getting better?” This dissertation suggests a framework based on the principles of Improvement Science as one-way school districts can include preschool in their continuous improvement efforts. Document Analysis, is the method …
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Jright-sizing [sic] as an iterative process for the Kansas City, Missouri school district
… Team who lead efforts to disrupt and transform public schooling with the district. The four strategic endeavors designed to address increasing student achievement include: School Board Micromanagement, Right-Sizing, Student Centered-Learning, and Equity and Access in relation to Gifted and …
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Organizational sense making : responsibilities to the MCAS reform in the Massachusetts public schools
… reform has become a central concern of public policy debates at both the state and federal level. The policy trend both nationally and locally is towards uniform standards in education, with testing as the single metric of assessment of public school performance. But can a one size fits …
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