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Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
Social interaction phenomena in the first-year college experience.
(2005)
The transition from high school to college is not an easy process. New freedoms and new independence provide for an exciting first year. There is little debate as to the importance of starting college off well. However, ...
Fiscal equity comparison between current and capital education expenditures and between rural and non-rural schools in Oklahoma.
(2005)
Accordingly, the data to be analyzed with resource accessibility measures and wealth neutrality measures was reported by schools through the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS). Specifically, all current expenditures ...
Educator perceptions of principal technology leadership competencies.
(2005)
The populace of the twentieth century is increasingly obsessed with new communication and information technologies that potentially may impact education and raise achievement levels of students (Spencer, 1999). In an ...
Technology supported data-driven decision-making in an Oklahoma elementary school.
(2005)
Public school educators need to know how to use data that support informed decision making in order to improve educational processes. Theoretical models provide scant explanations of how public school educators actually ...
An assessment of teacher concerns about classroom technology integration in Southeast Oklahoma.
(2005)
Three hundred sixty-two teachers volunteered to complete the survey instrument. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions were made: (a) Teachers were at the Stage 5, collaboration; (b) teachers had ...
A descriptive case study of the impact of 9/11 on international student visa policy in the 20 months following the attacks.
(2005)
International students in the U.S. have consistently been treated in public policy as educational diplomatic and economic assets. In the year before 9/11, a national policy endorsing international education, including ...
Presidential leadership: A phenomenological study of the leadership experience of Oklahoma's regional university presidents.
(2005)
Regionally focused state colleges and universities present a unique and challenging leadership opportunity to the men and women who have been chosen to serve as president. A literature review showed that the leadership ...
Popular participation in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an ameliorative policy treatment affecting public education.
(2005)
Popular Participation is a public policy characterized by decentralization and devolution of responsibility and resources for a wide range of public services, including public education, from the national to the municipal ...
No Child Left Behind: A study of policy, planning and program implementation in an urban district with high-poverty schools.
(2005)
Teaching and learning in urban public school districts have been marginalized by an institutional culture marred by random acts of improvement and a propensity for maintaining the status quo. The No Child Left Behind Act ...