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Education Week, 2013
This 17th edition of "Education Week's" annual "Quality Counts" report takes aim at an issue freighted with emotional as well as policy implications: the impact of a school's social and disciplinary environment on students' ability to learn and on the teachers and administrators tasked with guiding them. National initiatives to improve schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Discipline Policy, Performance Factors
Education Week, 2012
"Quality Counts 2012," the 16th edition of "Education Week"'s annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Education, Educational Quality, Competition
Research Inst. of Physical Culture and Health, Jyvaskyla (Finland). – 1979
The organization, functions, and work of the Research Institute of Physical Culture and Health, and the Research Unit for Sport and Physical Fitness, both functioning at the premises of the Foundation of Physical Culture and Health in Jyvaskyla, Finland, are discussed. Research papers which have been presented at international congresses during…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives
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Dunn, Jan, Ed. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1990
Five articles on dance dynamics and dance science focus on incorporating dance science into techniques class and performance training, the role of body therapies in dance training, psychological and nutritional concerns in dance, and training dancers and preventing injuries. (JD)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2005
This document includes presentation summaries and policy recommendations from the 2004 Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) Education Conference: (1) The Present and Coming Crisis: Demography and Education (Dowell Myers and Estela Mara Bensimon); (2) A View from the Academic Community (Moderators: Jorge Haynes and Jamilah Moore; Presenters:…
Descriptors: Demography, Paying for College, Hispanic American Students, Enrollment Management