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Kristin Lee Pender – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Classroom redesign is being recognized globally as necessary to better increase student's enjoyment levels, engagement, collaboration, and learning. Instead of seeing traditional classrooms in a fixed setting where students are seated in rows facing the front of the room, classrooms are being arranged in multiple ways. As a result of this focus on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Classroom Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Change Strategies
Christenbury, Leila – Teachers College Press, 2007
Leila Christenbury is well known as a writer and researcher in English Education: her classic book "Making the Journey," [ED437654] now in its third edition, has been a guide to countless middle and high school language arts teachers. In her new book, this veteran teacher and teacher educator reveals what did and---more surprisingly---did not…
Descriptors: Middle Class, High Schools, English Teachers, High Stakes Tests
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Stinson, Jennifer – Social Studies Journal, 1989
Discusses the development of the U.S. suburb as a new "crabgrass frontier," settled by mid-nineteenth century city dwellers seeking an escape from increasing industrialization and immigration. Cites the transportation revolution and major technological innovations in home building as factors in development of the suburbs. (LS)
Descriptors: Industrialization, Motor Vehicles, Secondary Education, Student Research
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Spencer, James M. – Social Education, 1992
Suggests that public school education in the last 50 years has been altered most dramatically by the interstate highway system and no-fault divorce. Blames the highway system for destroying the sense of community and capacity for delayed gratification and challenge. Argues that no-fault divorce has resulted in loss of family values and…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Role, Divorce, Elementary Secondary Education
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Marsh, Margaret – OAH Magazine of History, 1990
Reviews suburbanization of United States, created by assembly line construction, wartime housing shortages, and federal mortgage subsidies. States earlier scholars viewed suburban migration as a solution to urban overcrowding, whereas later scholars examined suburbs as symbolic of U.S. values and conformity, insulated from problems of U.S. cities.…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Historians, Literature Reviews, Local History
Finger Lakes Regional Education Center for Economic Development, Mount Morris, NY. – 1987
This guide describes seven model programs that were developed by the Finger Lakes Regional Center for Economic Development (New York) to meet the training needs of female and minority entrepreneurs to help their businesses survive and grow and to assist disabled and dislocated workers and youth in beginning small businesses. The first three models…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs