- Superintendent Of Large-City School Systems By:-Larry Nelson
The twenty-first century finds one-third of America's public school children attending one of ten large urban (large-city) school districts. By 2020 approximately one-half of public school enrollment will be clustered in twenty districts.
- States And Education Legal Basis Of State Relations To Nonpublic Schools By:-Randy Powell
In the United States' federal system, states carry out the function of providing for the education of their citizens. The U.S. Constitution does not specifically identify education as a federal obligation and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves to the states those areas not specifically delegated to the federal government
- Speech And Theater Education By:-Daniel Brown
Speech communication education in the secondary schools is of critical importance in preparing students for their roles in a global society. Since the early 1970s, employers and college admissions personnel have identified speaking, listening, and critical thinking as skills and knowledge crucial to success.
- Residential Colleges By:-Carlos Walker
Islamic in origin, the residential college may well be the oldest organizational model in Western higher education. Established as foundations to provide support for advanced students, residential colleges first appeared at the University of Paris and Oxford University in the twelfth century.
- Music Education Overview By:-George Baker
An observation of music classes in the public schools reveals that little changed in the last half of the twentieth century, including the education of music teachers. The value and role of music education in American schools has been affected
- Council For Basic Education By:-Raymond Brooks
The Council for Basic Education (CBE) was founded in 1956 by a group of distinguished citizens alarmed at the shift in American education from intellectual development to an emphasis on social development.
- Teacher Evaluation Overview By:-Roger Hill
Baseball is known as the national pastime of the United States, but teacher evaluation beats it hands down. Everybody does it–some with a vengeance, others with the casual disregard that physical and emotional distance afford.
- Private Schooling By:-Michael Roberts
Considerable diversity was evident among the 27,223 private elementary and secondary schools that existed in the United States in the autumn of 1999. "Other religious schools" were the most numerous at 49 percent; followed by Catholic schools, at 30 percent; and then nonsectarian schools, accounting for 22 percent of all private schools.
- Summer School By:-Keith Lewis
Summer school programs, also known as extended-year programs, are designed to provide educational opportunities to students during the summer months when schools traditionally observe summer break or summer vacation.
- Education Of Individuals With Learning Disabilities By:-Brian Edwards
The term learning disability was first introduced in the early 1960s. Up until that time, children with relatively normal intelligence who experienced learning difficulties were referred to as minimally brain injured, slow learners, dyslexic, or perceptually disabled. Despite their learning problems
- The Culture Of School By:-Eugene Parker
Schools are more than institutions where teachers impart skills and lessons; they are places where teachers transmit cultural knowledge," says sociologist Prudence L. Carter. "Education is as much about being inculcated with the ways of the 'culture of power' as it is about learning to read, count, and think critically"
- Science Learning Explanation And Argumentation By:-Alan Henderson
The K–12 U.S. science education standards, now published state by state, without exception cite competence in scientific investigation as an important curriculum goal from the early grades on. Students, it is claimed, should be able to formulate a question, design an investigation, analyze data, and draw conclusions.
- Research Methods Qualitative And Ethnographic By:-Kevin Campbell
A qualitative approach to research generally involves the researcher in contact with participants in their natural setting to answer questions related to how the participants make sense of their lives. Qualitative researchers may observe the participants and conduct formal and informal interviews
- Mathematics Learning Geometry By:-Paul Gonzalez
Geometry originated in the ancient practice of earth measurement used in agriculture, the building of pyramids, and the observation of the patterns in the movement of the stars applied in navigation. In spite of the very practical origin of geometry in the investigation of the world
- The College Entrance Examination Board By:-Russell Brooks
The College Entrance Examination Board, or College Board, is a national, nonprofit membership association with a mission of preparing, inspiring, and connecting students to college and opportunity. The College Board assists students in the school-to-college transition by helping them prepare academically for
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