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Chauncey, Caroline, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) More Than "Making Nice": Getting Teachers to (Truly) Collaborate (Laura Pappano); (2) "Doing the Critical Things First": An Aligned Approach to PreK and Early Elementary Math;…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
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Fomby, Paula; Cherlin, Andrew J. – American Sociological Review, 2007
Children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may face worse developmental outcomes than children raised in stable, two-parent families, and perhaps even worse than children raised in stable, single-parent families--a point denoted in much prior research. Multiple transitions and negative child outcomes, however, may be…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Family Environment, Reliability
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Lee, Min-Ah; Ferraro, Kenneth F. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2007
Although considerable evidence shows that residential segregation is deleterious to the health of African Americans, findings regarding segregation and health for Hispanic Americans are inconsistent. Competing hypotheses regarding the effects of neighborhood segregation on health are tested with data from Puerto Rican and Mexican American…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Access to Health Care, Neighborhoods, Mexican Americans
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2012
For the thirty-fifth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the national AECT Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Workplace Learning, Electronic Learning
Ellmore, Douglas A., Sr.; Olson, Steve E.; Smith, Phillip M. – National Academies Press, 1995
Today's children have grown up immersed in a world of computers and other information technologies. They play video games; they listen to music on digital compact disks; they help their families program the computerized controls of videocassette players. With all of the exciting innovations in computer technology, children have the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education
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Goldgehn, Leslie A. – International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2004
Generation Y wants to know why! Today's youth are curious, they want the facts, they want the hard data, and most of all they want the truth. Advertisements and creative marketing tactics do not easily sway this group. They do their research before they believe most things they hear and see. Purchasing behaviors of Generation Y show that the group…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Recruitment, Young Adults, Interpersonal Communication
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Krohn, Franklin B. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2004
The purpose of this article is to help determine whether the use of emoticons in computer mediated communication (CMC) are truly nonverbal cues. A review of the literature revealed that the traditional nonverbal theorists failed to predict the future employment of nonverbal cues in electronic CMC. A variety of emoticons are then described…
Descriptors: Cues, Business Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen I.; Bonifas, Robin P.; Hooyman, Nancy R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2006
This article examines the impact of a curricular infusion strategy to integrate multigenerational practice issues into social work education. Based on a survey of MSW students (N=83), findings illustrate that student interest, knowledge, and skills in aging and multigenerational practice increased significantly following the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Study, Student Surveys, Student Interests
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Fannon, Kate – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
This article presents a rationale for why role-play simulation is an effective and socially dynamic learning strategy for VET or HE. The factors of generational change, work world demands due to global economics and rapid technological developments are drivers for educationalists to focus more on the process of learning rather than the content.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Learning Strategies, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes
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Kearney, Melissa S. – Future of Children, 2006
Now that some of the historic barriers to economic success for U.S. women and minorities have begun to fall, women and blacks, in particular, are moving upward on the nation's socioeconomic ladder. Melissa Kearney reviews evidence that improved economic opportunities for these two groups make sex and race less important than they once were in…
Descriptors: Economics, Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Generational Differences
Higgs, Bettie, Ed.; McCarthy, Marian, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2008
This book presents a wide selection of issues currently of interest and concern in higher education institutions in Ireland. The chapters are snapshots of the intersection between theory, practice and research in particular settings; they are not meant to be comprehensive. Nevertheless, they present practice approaches, new theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum Design
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation's social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged…
Descriptors: Caring, African Americans, Females, Democracy
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Ginwright, Shawn A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
Fewer job opportunities, rising violence, and failing schools have all shaped the structure of opportunities for both youth and adults in urban communities. However, researchers understand very little about how these factors influence the capacity for adults in urban communities to form meaningful partnerships with youth. First, this article…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Partnerships in Education, Employment Opportunities, Youth
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Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Chan, Alfred C. M.; Phillips, David R. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
What might add quality to life during the last period of the life cycle? In study I, five focus groups of elderly participants representing different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds provided descriptions of quality of life (QOL) from their own perspectives. These descriptions formed the basis of a questionnaire that was administered to a…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Quality of Life, Factor Structure, Questionnaires
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Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Barrow, Lisa – Future of Children, 2006
Although education pays off handsomely in the United States, children from low-income families attain less education than children from more advantaged families. In this article, Cecilia Elena Rouse and Lisa Barrow investigate why family background is so strongly linked to education. The authors show that family socioeconomic status affects such…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Socioeconomic Status, Social Mobility
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