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Curran, F. Chris; Kitchin, James – Educational Policy, 2021
Geographic isolation of K-12 schools represents a unique challenge to schools with implications for school funding, staffing, resource acquisition, consolidation, transportation, and school choice among others. To date, little research has documented the extent of geographic isolation at a national scale or how it varies across school contexts.…
Descriptors: Geographic Isolation, Educational Policy, Common Core State Standards, Private Schools
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Harr, Natalie; Doneyko, Kathleen; Lee, Richard E., Jr. – Science and Children, 2012
The students at Crestwood Primary School proved that they have what it takes to exercise their bodies and their minds. In an effort to support their teacher's scientific expedition to Antarctica, students from kindergarten to second grade pledged to read books and do physical activity that equated to the 12,900 km (8,000-mile) journey to the…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Science
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Sherwood, Elizabeth A.; Freshwater, Amy – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
This article examines the pervasive influence of progressive education and travel on a public school kindergarten teacher's professional life. In a statement included in her handwritten list of goals for the children in her classroom, she echoed John Dewey, noting that a kindergarten child should "....live life fully and well because this is a…
Descriptors: Travel, Dramatic Play, Creative Teaching, Creativity
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Sildus, Tatiana, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2011
The 2011 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, focused on trends, innovations, and national programs that are picking up steam as the first decade of the twenty-first century ends. Several innovations have the potential to unify world language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods