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British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the greatest challenges our provincial education system has ever addressed. In the spring of 2020, many governments around the world ordered schools to suspend in-person instruction for most of their students, requiring education systems to pivot almost overnight to online or remote teaching and virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Payne, Alexander – George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2011
Racial and ethnic disproportionality in gifted education is a persistent and perennial inequity in many school districts. This report describes the root causes of this disproportionality and discusses ways in which this issue can be addressed. Whereas most of the attention has been paid to assessment, specifically the use of nonverbal tests to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Development, Intellectual Development, Disproportionate Representation
US Department of Education, 2008
Character includes the emotional, intellectual and moral qualities of a person or group as the demonstration of these qualities in prosocial behavior. Character education is an inclusive term encompassing all aspects of how schools, related social institutions and parents can support the positive character development of children and adults.…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Pilot Projects, School Districts, State Departments of Education