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Weiler, Spencer C.; Cray, Martha – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2011
The school resource officer (SRO) program began in the United States in the early to mid-1950s, however, the program did not gain prominence until the 1990s in response to various school shootings. According to national data, SROs can be found in 35 percent of school across America, regardless of level (elementary, middle, or high school),…
Descriptors: Violence, Program Effectiveness, Police School Relationship, Educational Environment
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Zellers, Darlene F.; Howard, Valerie M.; Barcic, Maureen A. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
In this review, the authors trace the evolution of mentoring programs in the United States in business and academe, provide insight on the challenges associated with the study of mentoring, and identify the limited research-based studies of faculty mentoring programs that currently inform our understanding of this professional development practice…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Organizational Culture, College Faculty
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Feng, Luo – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2006
In this article, the author aims to develop a macro level understanding of home education and its research in China. The author analyzes the background, the reasons of revival, special features, and major contents of home education research in the late 70s and early 80s of the 20th century, and explores the development in the succeeding three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational History, Intellectual History
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Black, Paul; Wiliam, Dylan – British Educational Research Journal, 2003
The authors trace the development of the King's Formative Assessment Programme from its origins in diagnostic testing in the 1970s, through the graded assessment movement in the 1980s, to the present day. In doing so, they discuss the practical issues involved in reviewing research and outline the strategies that were used to try to communicate…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research, Program Descriptions