NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 2,356 to 2,370 of 2,398 results Save | Export
Chand, Krishan – 1990
Identification of the causes of job stress for public school superintendents, with a focus on personal-experiential and task variables, is the purpose of this study. Methodology involved a mail survey of 1,531 randomly selected superintendents. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and multiple regression correlation (MCR) analysis were used to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Collegiality
Cooper, Beverly A. – 1975
The second grade instructional unit, part of a grade school level career education series, is designed to assist learners in relating present experiences to past and future ones. Before the main body of the lessons is described field test results are reported and key items are presented: the concepts, the estimated instructional time, the…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Career Awareness, Career Education, Curriculum Guides
Thomson, Barbara J. – 1993
An anti-bias curriculum focuses not only on the richness of various cultures, but also on seeing cultures as differing responses to common human needs--for food, shelter, fellowship, governance, and other necessities. Thus, cultures and peoples are not superior or inferior, just different. The anti-bias curriculum presented in this book has the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Cultural Pluralism
Vaughan, Rebecca – 1996
An early childhood classroom teacher integrated academic goals with the acquisition of social skills by using a specific teaching strategy of co-operative learning. The teacher of 5- to 7-year-olds experienced a classroom environment which lacked respect, fairness, and tolerance in the following dynamics: (1) boys toward girls; (2) older children…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Consciousness Raising
National Coalition of Advocates for Students, Boston, MA. – 1994
This report presents results from a National Coalition of Advocates for Students' (NCAS) study (Looking for America) of intergroup relations between immigrant and U.S. born students in public schools and the organization's collaboration with selected schools to improve those relationships. The report reveals school practices designed to improve…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
Weinberg, Meyer – 1981
This volume on desegregation is divided into seven sections that outline and annotate bodies of information available from various sources. These sections include: (1) selected sources of information on various school desegregation issues; (2) "how to" sources on school desegregation; (3) sources of information on cities that have been…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Resources, Curriculum Development
MILLER, ELIZABETH – 1966
MORE THAN 3,500 BOOKS, REPORTS, ARTICLES, AND PAMPHLETS CONCERNED WITH THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICA, AND PUBLISHED SINCE THE 1954 SUPREME COURT SCHOOL DESEGREGATION DECISION, ARE LISTED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. VARIOUS CLASSIC WORKS AND ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND STUDIES PUBLISHED BEFORE 1954 ARE ALSO INCLUDED. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Patterns, Black Education, Black Employment
Furfey, Paul Hanly; Harte, Thomas J. – 1964
In order to study the interaction of the deaf and the hearing, surveys were made in Frederick County, Maryland. Eighty deaf persons were studied by social casework techniques, and 1017 hearing persons were interviewed. Specialized data were obtained from interviews with manufacturers, merchants, health personnel, and clergy, data which indicated…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Clergy, Community Attitudes
Cotera, Martha P. – 1977
Presented in this publication are seven essays and public presentations, prepared for Chicana feminist activities and events during the period 1970 to 1977, titled: "Our Feminist Heritage", "When Women Speak: Our Feminist Legacy", "Chicanas and Power", "Feminism As We See It", "Roles",…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Cultural Images
Institute of Medicine (NAS), Washington, DC. – 1972
The conference brought together on a national scale equal numbers of leaders (120 in all) from the major health professions to define the issues in the increasingly important matter of interdisciplinary education, in order to give impetus to more detailed considerations of institutional, regional, and ultimately national levels of health…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Clinical Experience, Conference Reports
Jayatilleke, Raja – 1972
This bibliography is an annual supplement to the first bibliography on human relations in the classroom (ED 051 315), covering the period April through December 1971 for items announced in RIE, and the period May through December 1971 for journal articles cited, and contains references to published books, documents, journal articles, and…
Descriptors: Activism, Attitude Change, Black Attitudes, Black Studies
Fleischer, Wendy – 2001
In 1995, the Anne E. Casey Foundation launched the Jobs Initiative (JI) in six cities to change labor market prospects for low-income young people in order to help them get jobs that could move their families out of poverty. The JI attempts to change the way employers recruit and supervise workers and how work is structured; to prepare workers and…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Government School Relationship
Schuller, Tom – 1999
The arguments for deschooling expressed by Ivan Illich a quarter of a century ago have relevance today. We are in danger of losing their most salient insights; perhaps because the critique was phrased in this oversimplified binary form, excessive institutionalization should be countered by deinstitutionalization, professionalism by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Philosophy, Educational Sociology
Brunn, Michael – 2000
Within a 3-year period, a rural Midwestern school district's Hispanic student population increased from 3 to over 180 due to the hiring of migrant workers by a local meat packing plant. A qualitative study using interviews and classroom observations examined the processes through which 23 teachers and 5 administrators in this school district…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Guindon, Rene; Poulin, Pierre – 1996
This text examines the ties that bind Francophones across Canada to illustrate the diversity and depth of the Canadian Francophone community. Observations are organized into seven chapters. The first looks at the kinship ties of Canadian Francophones, including common ancestral origins, settlement of the Francophone regions, and existence of two…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Demography, Economic Factors, Educational Mobility
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160