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• Intractable Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education

  1/1/04 - Weinstein, Rhona S., Gregory, Anne, Strambler, Michael J.

  The civil rights struggle for equal educational opportunity has yet to be achieved at the start of the 21st century. Inequality persists but problem and remedy are reframed-- from integrating schools, to ensuring equal access in resegregated settings, to closing the petformance. gap. As seen through ecological theory (K S. Weinstein, 2002b), complex, multilayered, and interactive negative self-fulfilling prophecies create or perpetuate educational inequities and unequal outcomes. Society has...

• Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education

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  Table of Contents: Collaborations in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Challenges and Promise Building Bridges and Tearing Down Walls: Constructing an Early Childhood Career Ladder Through University Head-Start Collaboration Passion, Politics, and Collaboration: Changing Early Childhood Teacher Preparation and Certification The New Professionals in Early Childhood: Overview of a Transdisciplinary Training Program and Initial Student Outcomes Obstacles and Opportunities: Creating Early...

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  Law and Disorder in the Classroom

  1/1/09 - Richard Arum , Doreet Preiss

  School discipline is a critical area for research, as student interaction with school institutional authority is one of the primary mechanisms whereby young people come into contact with and internalize societal norms, values, and rules. It is thus significant that the number of cases reaching state and federal appellate courts has surged back up to levels attained during the early 1970s when civil rights cases had a central place on the national political agenda (see Figure 1). Our research...

• Learning and Development through social interaction and conflict: A challenge to social learning theory.

  1/1/83 - Murray, F. B. , L. Liben.
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  Let's Try: Getting Creative with Family Volunteers

  1/14/10 - Ferguson, Dianne

  School personnel need a long and varied menu of ways families can contribute beyond the traditional options of things like helping in classrooms, reading to students, or doing paperwork in the office. The presence of more family members in school increases the ratio of adult to students. Almost regardless of what they do when at school, their presence – their willingness to interact with students while they are there – will make a difference.

• NCEO Data Viewer

  1/1/07 - Moore, M., Christensen, L., Altman, J.

  The NCEO Data Viewer is an interactive data Web site that contains information on: State policies on assessment participation and accommodations and State Annual Performance Report (APR) data

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  New and experienced teachers in a school reform initiative: the example of Reading First

  1/9/09 - Karl Nelestuen, Caitlin Scott, Makato Hanita, LeAnne Robinson, Tracy Coskle

  "This study compares the experiences and perceptions of new and experienced teachers in 235 schools in six western states (Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming) that have adopted the Reading First school reform initiative. Using previously collected data from surveys and interviews, the study considers four areas of the reform initiative for bringing all K–3 students up to grade level in reading by grade 3: instructional coaches, teacher collaboration, use of student...

• Relating test-taking attitudes and skills and stereotype threat effects to the racial gap in cognitive ability test performance

  1/1/03 - Nguyen, Hannah-Hanh D., O'Neal, Alisha, Ryan, Ann Marie

  This research extended past studies on race effects and stereotype threat (ST) effects outside the academic domain, as well as exploring the mediating role of test-related cognition, motivation, and emotionality in the Black-White cognitive ability test performance differences. One hundred seventy-two undergraduates took a simulated personnel selection test and responded to measures of attitudinal and test-taking skills prior to and after the test. Half of the participants were told that the...

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  Strategies for Increasing Peer Social Interactions: Prompting and Acknowledgment

  1/18/09 - T. Bovey , P. Strain

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. Throughout the day, children engage in all...

• Student Success Skills: A Promising Program to Close the Academic Achievement Gap for African American and Latino Students

  1/1/07 - Miranda, Alexis, Webb, Linda, Brigman, Greg

  Academic achievement data from four previous Student Success Skills (SSS) studies were aggregated and examined to determine if there were differential effects in improved test scores among White, Latino, and African American students. Results showed that posttest scores for the treatment group were significantly higher than the comparison group in math as well as reading. There were no interactions or main effects for ethnicity. White, Latino, and African American students showed similar...

• Student success skills: A promising program to close the academic achievement gap for African American and Latino students

  1/1/07 - Miranda, Alexis, Webb, Linda, Brigman, Greg, Peluso, Paul

  Academic achievement data from four previous Student Success Skills (SSS) studies were aggregated and examined to determine if there were differential effects in improved test scores among White, Latino, and African American students. Results showed that posttest scores for the treatment group were significantly higher than the comparison group in math as well as reading. There were no interactions or main effects for ethnicity. White, Latino, and African American students showed similar...

• Student Success Skills: A Promising Program to Close the Academic Achievement Gap for African American and Latino Students

  1/1/07 - Miranda, Alexis, Webb, Linda, Brigman, Greg, Peluso, Paul

  Academic achievement data from four previous Student Success Skills (SSS) studies were aggregated and examined to determine if there were differential effects in improved test scores among White, Latino, and African American students. Results showed that posttest scores for the treatment group were significantly higher than the comparison group in math as well as reading. There were no interactions or main effects for ethnicity. White, Latino, and African American students showed similar...

• Testing conditions influence the race gap in cognition and achievement estimated by household survey data

  1/1/03 - Kim, Hyoshin, Baydar, Nazli, Greek, April

  The present study investigates the hypothesis that the race gap estimated using achievement test scores administered during household surveys may partly be accounted for by measurable testing conditions such as interviewer characteristics, interviewer-child interactions, and the testing environment in the home. Using the child assessments of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) in 1992, the findings clearly indicate that the factors related to testing conditions in the home have...

• The Black-White "achievement gap" as a perennial challenge of urban science education: A sociocultural and historical overview with implications for research and practice

  1/1/01 - Norman, Obed, Ault, Charles R., Jr., Bentz, Bonnie, Meskimen, Lloyd

  Explores the academic achievement gap between African American and White students in urban science classrooms. History shows that this gap existed for groups other than African Americans. The authors examine how historical and sociocultural factors in the manifestation and eventual disappearance of the gap for these groups may shed light on the present problem. The authors conclude that the sociocultural position of groups is crucial to understanding the scholastic performance of students...

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  The Challenges of Inclusion andCollaboration: Understanding the Needs of Novice Special Education Teachers

  1/20/10 - Billingsley, B. S., Griffin, C. C., Smith, S. J., Kamman, M., & Israel, M.

  Understanding the challenges that novice special education teachers encounter provides important information for administrators as they consider policies and procedures that support new teacher induction. Find out how administrators can help novice special education teachers address the challenges they face with inclusion, collaboration, and interactions with other adults.

• The Effects of School Racial and Ethnic Composition on Academic Achievement During Adolescence

  1/1/07 - Lee, Hedwig

  This research examines the effects of school racial and ethnic composition on students' academic achievement in the U.S. using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and hierarchical linear models. This analysis includes Hispanics, which stands apart from other research in this area that has traditionally focused on only Black and White student racial composition. In addition, peer group influences are measured by utilizing the comprehensive peer network data available for all...