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Direct linkTeasley, Martell – School Community Journal, 2004
After over 40 years of education reform policies and strategies, America continues its need for systemic education reform. The greatest challenge confronting the nation remains within large urban metropolises where large numbers of minority students attend underfunded and low-performing schools with low standardized test scores and high dropout…
Descriptors: African American Children, Urban Schools, Educational Needs, Standardized Tests
Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Ryser, Gail R.; Epstein, Michael H.; Shwery, Craig S. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
This study examined the extent to which the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale: Parent Rating Scale (BERS: PRS) constitutes a reliable measure for assessing strengths of Hispanic children and youth. Major conceptual and theoretical issues with respect to cross-cultural assessment are presented. Further, emotional and behavioral disorders are…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Hispanic American Students
Veltze, Linda – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2004
Multicultural reading advocates believe in the power of literature to transform and to change people's lives. They take seriously the arguments that racism and prejudice can be lessened through multicultural reading, and also that children from undervalued societal groups who read books that depict people like themselves in a positive light will…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, Teacher Role, School Libraries, Multicultural Education
Lake, Vickie E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
This qualitative study that allowed children to be the dominant voice examined children's stories of hope. Twenty-nine kindergarten children through to third graders were interviewed using familiar school items: story board, pictures, puppets, and so on. One elementary school, located in a large southwestern metropolitan city, was selected for…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Rvachew, Susan; Grawburg, Meghann – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among variables that may contribute to poor phonological awareness (PA) skills in preschool-aged children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Method: Ninety-five 4- and 5-year-old children with SSD were assessed during the spring of their prekindergarten year. Linear structural…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Vocabulary Skills, Receptive Language, Reading Skills
Karchmer-Klein, Rachel; Layton, Victoria – Reading Research and Instruction, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' use of literature-based collaborative Internet projects (CIP) in their elementary classrooms. These practices require two or more classrooms to read and analyze texts on specified topics and then share responses over the Internet. The participants, all female, represented 15 different U.S. states…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Language Arts, Childrens Literature
Marton, Klara; Schwartz, Richard G.; Farkas, Lajos; Katsnelson, Valeriya – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: English-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) perform more poorly than their typically developing peers in verbal working memory tasks where processing and storage are simultaneously required. Hungarian is a language with a relatively free word order and a rich agglutinative morphology. Aims: To examine the effect…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Linguistics, Sentences, Language Acquisition
Bambino, Debbie – Educational Horizons, 2005
A few years ago the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF) revised its mission statement to include language about working to "foster educational and social equity." The revision makes sense to the author as a graduate student in urban education and a former Philadelphia middle school teacher, as well as in her role as a facilitator of Critical…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Transformative Learning, Access to Education, Racial Bias
Rallo, Curt; Roessing, Lesley J. – English Journal, 2006
"Teacher to Teacher" provides a forum for teachers to share ideas, materials, and activities. In this article, the first teacher describes the effects the well-known novel "Bleachers" (John Grisham, New York: Doubleday, 2003) had on a ninth-grade english class. The novel bought to life the high school culture that the students found challenging.…
Descriptors: Novels, English Instruction, Grade 9, Literature
Rolla San Francisco, Andrea; Arias, Melissa; Villers, Renata; Snow, Catherine – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Grade retention has been the de facto policy for children with academic difficulties in many Latin American countries [Schiefelbein, E., & Wolff, L. (1992). "Repetition and inadequate achievement in Latin America's primary schools: a review of magnitudes, causes, relationships, and strategies." Washington, DC: World Bank.]. In Costa…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Early Intervention
Williams, Susan K.; Scahill, Lawrence; Vitiello, Benedetto; Aman, Michael G.; Arnold, L. Eugene; McDougle, Christopher J.; McCracken, James T.; Tierney, Elaine; Ritz, Louise; Posey, David J.; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Hollway, Jill; Cronin, Pegeen; Ghuman, Jaswinder; Wheeler, Courtney; Cicchetti, Domenic; Sparrow, Sara – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To evaluate the impact of risperidone on adaptive behavior in children with autistic disorder who have serious behavior problems and to examine different methods of scoring the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales to measure change. Method: Forty-eight children (5 years to 16 years, 5 months) who showed behavioral improvement during acute…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Behavior Problems, Socialization, Autism
Rothbaum, Fred; Nagaoka, Rika; Ponte, Iris C. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Western investigators assume that caregiver sensitivity takes similar forms and has similar outcomes in all cultures. However, cultural research suggests that sensitivity in the West has more to do with responsiveness to children's explicit expression of need, and that sensitivity in non-Western communities has more to do with anticipation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Cues, Preschool Children
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's prekindergarten program for the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Readiness, School Districts, Preschool Education, Grants
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2008
This National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) resource guide on emergency management research and people with disabilities provides a listing and description of research projects funded by the federal government and nonfederal entities, research recommendations that have come out of conferences on emergency management…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Emergency Programs, Research Projects, Research Needs
Reisberg, Mira – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
This study explores the concept of finding pleasure in social and ecological caring from the a/r/tographic stance of the author as artist, researcher, and teacher. I combine place-based and visual culture art education with multicultural children's picture books to promote more connection and pleasure in the teaching and learning process. The…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Art Education, Educational Change, Art Teachers
