The interaction of education and digital technology today is one of the key characteristics of development. Many industrialized nations place a high value on digital learning practices and have created several national strategic plans to encourage and support the use of digital practices in education. In its reform and development of education,…

A comprehensive laboratory-style teaching activity involving the synthesis, characterization, and analysis of structure-activity relationships of metal-organic framework (MOF) nanozymes was developed specifically for undergraduates at Tianjin University. The students acquired familiarity with the general approach in synthesizing MOFs by…

Substantial research has documented that Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) programs have important benefits for the school readiness of young children, especially those from low-income backgrounds. Recent studies in this arena have taken advantage of the Regression Discontinuity (RD) design to evaluate the impacts of Pre-K, due to ethical and pragmatic…

"The Upstart Great Plains TASK Force: Taking All to Success in Kindergarten" was a five-year Education, Innovation and Research (EIR) expansion grant (U411A180001) funded through the US Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Four research studies were conducted during the grant period of 2018 to 2023: a…

This article draws from interviews with two Mixtec migrant farmworkers whose life experiences demonstrate how communication, language, and community, across time and borders, impact the ways Indigenousmigrants choose to practice literacy and non-literacy. Using their stories, I disrupt and decenter the Western definition of literacy and instead…

The goal of the Maximize Program is to collaborate with educators to develop resources and procedures to facilitate teachers' use of equity-focused behavioral supports. In this study, we describe teachers' responses to the first iteration of the interactive Maximize Technology Platform. Ninety elementary school teachers from three schools were…

The widespread shift to distance learning during the pandemic created a critical juncture for strengthening technology integration in adult foundational education (AFE). This paper presents results from a pilot survey on technology use and related professional learning (PL); 58 AFE practitioners from four states participated. Findings are…

Negative beliefs about the use of educational technology, along with the lack of specific knowledge about how to incorporate technology, are preventing teacher integration of technology into daily instruction. The lack of solid teacher technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge skills (TPACK), that results in skillful and purposeful…

The purpose of this comparative, bounded, and embedded case study (Creswell & Poth, 2018) is to understand the development and implementation of district administered preparation opportunities which support technology integration in secondary social studies classrooms at Hiawatha Middle and High School, a high achieving suburban school…

This study reports qualitative findings related to elementary preservice teachers' perceptions and use of a six-phased planning approach, titled Planning for Elementary Digitally-Supported Disciplinary Literacy, to integrate digitally supported disciplinary literacy into lesson planning. Preservice teachers in this study were seeking PK-6…

This case study focused on a university teacher-education course that included NOS content. An adapted questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data on 83 secondary science teachers' views about three NOS themes before and after completing the course. Qualitative data were collected from eight of the teachers who were observed teaching…

Proficient communication, particularly reading comprehension, is vital for career progression, yet many college-level English as an Additional Language (EAL) students encounter hurdles in this area. Weak reading skills can impede job prospects, underscoring the need for tailored interventions during students' studies. Therefore, post-entry…

This quantitative study describes results of cross-sectional demographical research conducted on minority women and Millennial women to address their reported lower levels of financial literacy. This study potentially disrupts the status quo of low financial literacy levels among women and young adults shown in past research by seeking to…

This study analyzed data from a survey distributed to teachers in an urban school district in New Jersey. The survey asked teachers about their past and current perceptions of, and practices with, the use of classroom technology and in particular one-to-one devices. Findings reveal teachers generally perceive technology as positive in teaching and…

In recent years, we have witnessed rapid technological and digital changes that have inevitably affected mathematics education. This article presents findings on the use of digital technologies by Italian mathematics teachers, especially in this period of digital revolution amplified by the pandemic, and on the teachers' level of training in the…