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The Collective Construction of Middle-Class White Womanhood: Investigations of Teaching and Teacher Professionalization in a Diverse Elementary School
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Yoon, Irene H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation investigates how the intersections of race, class, and gender operate in the everyday teaching and professional norms of middle-class White women teachers--particularly in schools such as the one in this study, where a majority of middle-class, White women teachers serve predominantly low-income, racially and ethnically diverse…
Descriptors: Jews, Women Faculty, Females, Whites
Educational Technology and Equity: Students Access to and Use of Computers in Low-Socioeconomic and Middle-Class Socioeconomic Schools
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Lee, Tanja Lynne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
It is hoped that implementing educational technology (ET) into academic curriculums will close the achievement gap among ethnically and socioeconomically (SES) diverse students. California public schools have arranged for instructional classrooms to be stored with information communication technology (ICT) resources. Even so, there is inequity in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Equal Education, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
Social Competence of Students with Learning Disabilities Using a Risk-Resilience Model
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Benowitz, Alison Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Children with learning disabilities (LD) makeup 50.5% of all children identified for special services in the schools. Research has found that children with LD have difficulties in areas of functioning related to social competence. This study is based on a risk and resilience model to explore external protective factors (friendships and social…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Risk, Resilience (Psychology), Multiple Regression Analysis