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Munro, Susan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Most state regulations for early childhood programs focus on structural aspects of classrooms: class size, teacher/child ratio, teachers' professional degrees, curriculum, and so forth. Those are not the critical factors, according to Robert Pianta, director of the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education and professor of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Cronin, Barbara W.; Raywid, Mary Anne – American School Board Journal, 1990
Pullout programs are breaking up the self-contained class in elementary schools. A study in New York State disclosed that 94 percent of the teachers surveyed have students involved in remedial pullout programs and 57 percent have students in enrichment pullout programs. Frequent use of pullout programs can have negative effects. (MLF)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Weisner, Thomas S.; And Others – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Presents the results of observation and interview studies of sibling caretaking and peer assistance in Native Hawaiian contexts, and compares these activities in natal and school activity settings. Classrooms should be accommodated to selected features of natal culture activity settings. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Context
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Osborn, Marilyn; Broadfoot, Patricia – Oxford Review of Education, 1992
Discusses a comparative study of elementary school teachers in England and France that preceded the implementation of the National Curriculum in English schools. Reports differences in teaching methods, classroom organization, and teacher student relationships between the two countries. Concludes that greater focus on professional autonomy by…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research