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• The Archaeology of Knowledge.

  1/1/72 - Foucault, Michel.
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  The children born in 2001 at kindergarten entry: First findings from the Kindergarten Data Collections of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): First Look

  1/30/09 - Kristin Denton Flanagan, Cameron McPhee, Gail Mulligan

  "Using data from the final two rounds of the ECLS-B, a longitudinal study begun in 2001, this First Look provides a snapshot of the demographic characteristics, reading and mathematics knowledge, fine motor skills, school characteristics, and before- and after-school care arrangements of the cohort at the time they first began kindergarten. Information has been collected from and about these children when they were 9 months old, 2 years old, 4 years old, and at kindergarten entry. This...

• THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL BIASES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS' EDUCATION

  1/1/05 - Baker, Paula Booker

  Education, at all levels, opens routes to achieve higher incomes, status advancement, and upward social mobility. The goal for most families is to present an opportunity for their children to receive a jump on acquiring knowledge to afford this achievement. Schools within our education system declare they offer a quality education for African American students. This concept will be examined along with the research that maintains schooling for African American students is deliberately...

• The knowledge gap: Implications of leveling the playing field for low-income and middle-income children

  1/1/06 - Neuman, Susan B., Celano, Donna

  This study examines children's uses of reading resources in neighborhood public libraries that have been transformed to "level the playing field." Through foundation funding (US$20 million), the public library system of Philadelphia converted neighborhood branch libraries into a technologized modern urban library system, hoping to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and their families by closing the achievement gap. Using a mosaic of ethnographic methodologies, four studies examined...

• The new meaning of educational change

  1/1/91 - Fullan, M.

  This book has been greatly revised and expanded to make it a definitive up-to-date reference for educational innovators involved in educational reform. Sixteen chapters incorporate new theoretical and empirical knowledge about change processes, provide powerful insights into the complexity of reform, and recommend inspiring and practical strategies for lasting improvement: (1) "A Brief History of Educational Change"; (2) "Sources of Educational Change"; (3) "The Meaning of Educational...

• The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans.

  1/1/84 - Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.
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  The State of Preschool

  1/5/09 - W. Steven Barnett , Dale J. Epstein , Allison H. Friedman, Judi Stevenson Boyd, Jason T. Hustedt

  The 2008 State Preschool Yearbook is the sixth in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This latest Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2007-2008 school year. The first report in this series focused on programs for the 2001-2002 school year and established a baseline against which we may now measure progress over seven years. Tracking these trends is essential, since changes in states' policies on...

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  Tiered Interventions in High Schools: Using Preliminary ‘Lessons Learned’ to Guide Ongoing Discussion

  1/24/10 - National High School Center, National Center on Response to Intervention, and Center on Instruction

  Response to Intervention (RTI) is a potentially powerful framework for organizing, allocating, and evaluating educational resources to meet the instructional needs of all students and to prevent long-term school failure. Much of our knowledge of the components of RTI and their successful implementation is based on experiences in elementary schools. However, given the structural and organizational differences between elementary schools and high schools, this evidence has its limitations when...

• Toolkit for Inclusive School Improvement (Part 2)

  1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

  Systemic school change is a complex and difficult task. The challenge is great, but educators throughout our nation and other nations are actively engaging the opportunity to transform education and how we go about the work of teaching and learning in our schools. This toolkit is developed by NIUSI to assess networks of schools engaging their faculty, staff, families, students, and community members in ongoing renewal and systemic change. The toolkit is organized around three areas...

• Toolkit for Inclusive School Improvement (Part 3)

  1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

  Systemic school change is a complex and difficult task. The challenge is great, but educators throughout our nation and other nations are actively engaging the opportunity to transform education and how we go about the work of teaching and learning in our schools. This toolkit is developed by NIUSI to assess networks of schools engaging their faculty, staff, families, students, and community members in ongoing renewal and systemic change. The toolkit is organized around three areas...

• Understanding socio cultural factors: Knowledge, identity, and school adjustment. In Beyond language, social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students, 73 140.

  1/1/86 - Ogbu, J. U., & Matute Bianchi, M. E.

• Understanding socio cultural factors: Knowledge, identity, and school adjustment. In Bilingual Education Office, California State Department of Education, Beyond language: Social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students

  1/1/93 - Ogbu, J. U., & Matute Bianchi, M. E. , Anderson, B.L.

• Using knowledge of children's mathematics thinking in classroom teaching: an experimental study.

  1/1/89 - Carpenter, T., Fennema, E., Peterson, P., Chiang, C., & Ooef, M.
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  Using School Leadership Teams to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners

  1/24/10 - Movit, M, Petrykowska, I., Woodruff, D.

  To ensure that the implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) strategies effectively addresses the needs of all students, the National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI) recommends that schools and districts establish leadership teams that focus on issues affecting culturally and linguistically diverse students. New leadership teams can be added to what already exists, or current leadership teams can be refocused on these issues. Leadership teams should meet regularly and...

• Using the Critical Thinking Belief Appraisal to assess the rigor gap

  1/1/08 - Torff, Bruce

  In a line of research employing a survey instrument, the Critical Thinking Belief Appraisal, teachers supported critical-thinking (CT) activities more for high-than low-advantage learners, likely exacerbating a "rigor gap" implicated in persistent achievement gaps. Such beliefs were less likely to be espoused by expert teachers than randomly selected ones, and teacher-education programs mitigated these beliefs but did not expunge them, suggesting a need for interventions that foster belief...

• What's on Your Nation's Report Card?

  1/1/07 - Norton Iii, Anderson H.

  The article discusses the mathematics problems used on the U.S.'s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card. The author focuses on a constructed-response item, designed to reveal students' problem-solving abilities and conceptual understanding, and uses it to illustrate how a different interpretation of students' responses can reveal more about their reasoning and lead to a different assessment. He discusses aspects of student responses that...