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Shiller, Jessica T. – Urban Education, 2013
The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) shows a civic knowledge gap similar to the achievement gap, showing urban youth struggling in particular. However, research has shown that urban youth can be civically engaged when they are involved in projects or organizing intended to improve community conditions, not simply absorbing civic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Citizen Participation, Community Organizations, Democracy
Perreault, George, Ed.; Zellner, Luana, Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2012
This is the 2012 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains the following papers: (1) Editors' Sidebar (George Perreault and Luana Zellner); (2) The Hour Glass Economy: The Social Justice Challenge for the 21st Century (Fenwick W. English); (3) Maintaining the Human Touch in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Teacher Motivation, Social Justice, Management Development
Wright, Sandra K. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This historical research will provide school leaders with a broad conception of the conditions, forces and processes behind the development of Economics Education. It serves as a case study of past and current practices and approaches to advocacy in economics education. Since it began in 1885, economics education has experienced many obstacles and…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Program Effectiveness, Secondary Education, Doctoral Dissertations
National School Public Relations Association, Washington, DC. – 1971
This collection of 12 articles, prepared by the editors of the weekly newsletter "Education USA," attempts to highlight significant new developments that have surfaced as major education issues. The aim of the collection is to provide "an authoritative, up-to-date report on what's new in education in one book." The articles…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Care, Community Schools, Educational Vouchers