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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"state-funded"”.
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State-funded Lobbyists in Georgia: Wise or Wasteful?
Most Georgia state agencies have full-time employees whose duties include lobbying General Assembly members on behalf of the agency. These employees act as liaisons between the agencies and the state elected officials and perform duties such as constituent services, providing information to …
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Implementing Peer Coaching in a State Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program: An Autoethnography
This autoethnography - rooted in the qualitative tradition of field research, explored the life experiences of the researcher which subsequently led to the preparation, implementation, and analysis of a professional development program. The purpose of this study was to reflect upon whether or not a …
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Identifying program theory: A step toward evaluating categorical state-funded educational programs
… approaches for evaluating categorical state-funded programs. The context for this study was Illinois' Truants' Alternative and Optional Education Program (TAOEP).
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Khomanani : critical discourse analysis of South African state funded publications on HIV
The present study focuses on identifying the discourses that emerge in these official documents. A data set of the complete collection of Khomanani booklets and leaflets in English was discursively analysed. The analysis focuses on ways in which emergent discourses in the text maintain or resist …
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Investigating A State-Funded Disciplinary Literacy Program In Kentucky For Educators Of Adolescent Students
<p>This case study describes a professional learning opportunity for educators of adolescents, namely the Literacy for Adolescent Teachers (LAT), at a regional midsize university in Kentucky. The LAT is a year-long experience that enrollees undertake to grow professionally by gaining specific …
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Improving energy efficiency in state-funded facilities through the development and use of a simplified energy audit procedure
Over the past few years, state governments and entities have become concerned with energy consumption and efficiency at their facilities. The Department of Energy has become increasingly involved in energy code enforcement, and has established initiatives to help states monitor and improve energy …
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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Classroom Quality and Child Language and Academic Outcomes in a State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program
… for one cohort of children participating in a state-funded pre-kindergarten program in South Carolina. Data for my study were part of a larger extant dataset from the evaluation of the South Carolina Child Development Education Pilot Program. Individual child assessment data collected in the …
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A study of the representational use of aggregates in the pedagogic elaboration of addition and subtraction in the Department of Basic Education Grades 1 to 3 Numeracy workbooks, prescribed for use in state funded South African schools
… for Grades One to Three, prescribed for use in state-funded SA schools, constitute the archive of information from which the data is produced for the study. The study adopts a computational analytic approach conditioned by the proposition that all thought is computational, entailing the use of …
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A Gentleman's Burden: Difference and the Development of British Education at Home and in the Empire During the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
… Gentleman's Burden is a comparative analysis of state-funded primary education in Britain, Ireland, West Africa, and India during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Starting with early-nineteenth century theories on primary education, this dissertation traces the evolution of …
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The State of Mobile Strategy and Responsive Web Design at Ohio Universities
… web design and other mobile strategies at Ohio state-funded universities, and to explore the viability of using responsive web design to serve web content to mobile users on university websites. The objectives of this study were to determine whether or not Ohio state-funded universities are …
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The Impact Of Pre-Kindergarten Programs On Student Achievement In Mississippi Elementary Schools
Each of the states bordering Mississippi invests large amounts of money in providing children with state-funded pre-k programs in their public schools. However, Mississippi falls behind these states and does not similarly invest in this effort to provide many of its children with the opportunity to …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Resources and Levels of Parent Involvement in Illinois Early Childhood Programs: A Program-Level Perspective
… and levels of parent involvement across state-funded preschool programs in Illinois. This dissertation presented a mixed methods study using survey data from the <italic>Illinois Birth to Five Evaluation FY09</italic> (n=843) and interviews with ten preschool administrators who completed …
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Investigating the Virginia Preschool Initiative's Role in Preparing Students for Kindergarten
… in the Commonwealth of Virginia. According to a state-wide study, approximately 30% of the students entering Virginia's schools either were not ready academically and/or behaviorally (Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission [JLARC], 2017). Fortunately, the Virginia Preschool Initiative …
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The potential of green space in schools to enhance biodiversity, ecological knowledge and student wellbeing
… of taxa varied with school fee-paying status (state-funded, including state and academy, or non-state-funded). Non-state-funded schools had higher levels of vegetation than state-funded schools, and this translated into higher invertebrate abundance, higher species richness of plant cover and …
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Faculty training and professional development programs designed to impact Web-based instruction in higher education: A faculty perspective.
… in higher education at the five largest state-funded universities in Texas within a college of education. The instrument used in this study was developed by the research to collect data relating to faculty perception of training and development opportunities available to them at their …
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The Impact Of A Professional Development Program On Teachers' Practice And How Context Variables Influenced Such Practice: A Case Study
… how context variables influenced the impact of a state-funded longitudinal professional development (PD) program on the participant teachers' practice. Data was collected to compare differences in Science Content Knowledge, Science Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and the teachers' practice over the …
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