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James P. Takona – Critical Questions in Education, 2025
This study analyzes Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol, a foundational text that reveals persistent inequalities in the US education system. Equity theory acts as a conceptual basis for this review, which builds on Kozol's arguments by examining the connections between race, socioeconomic status, and policy. The…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Equal Education, Resource Allocation, Educational Equity (Finance)
Chen, Nicholas Yen-Cherng – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading activities in the classroom and workplace occur predominantly on paper. Since existing electronic devices do not support these reading activities as well as paper, users have difficulty taking full advantage of the affordances of electronic documents. This dissertation makes three main contributions toward supporting active reading…
Descriptors: Reading, Electronic Publishing, Books, Handheld Devices
Moses, Oyelami Olufemi – Online Submission, 2008
More recent motivational research focuses on the identification of effective techniques for enhancing instructional design and meeting the needs of diverse student populations (Wlodkowski R. J., 1981). Learning-motivation researchers are applying some of the same theories and concepts found to be effective in industry to the development of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Instructional Improvement, Models