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Title: Findings from the 2014 North Carolina kindergarten entry formative assessment pilot
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: In response to the requirements of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant and a mandate from the North Carolina (NC) State Legislature requiring the development of a kindergarten entry assessment, NC Superintendent June Atkinson organi...

Title: Findings from the 2015 statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process : kindergarten entry assessment
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: During the first 60 instructional days of the 2015-2016 academic year, the Office of Early Learning (OEL) at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction implemented a new formative assessment process in all kindergarten classrooms in the s...

Title: Findings from the 2016-2017 North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process implementation case study
Author: Ferrara, Angela, Lin, Van-Kim, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The 2016-2017 academic year marks the second year of statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 Formative Assessment Process: Kindergarten Entry Assessment (FAPKEA). The assessment, developed and implemented by the Office of Early Learning...

Title: Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
Author: Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...

Title: Introduction to the special issue on social sustainability : integration, context, and governance
Author: Peterson, Nicole
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Environmental policy, Political participation
Description: New research and practice in sustainability proposes an integrated concept whereby “social issues” are indistinguishable and inseparable from economic or environmental issues and vice versa. These approaches are based in experiences with real plac...

Title: Islam and the politics of enchantment
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism, Education
Description: The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counterclaims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programs for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing t...

Title: Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment
Author: Holcomb, Scott, Li, Zhi, Ferrara, Angela, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Curriculum-based assessment
Description: This study gathered information from practitioners on their perspectives of experiences implementing the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (NC KEA). Initially, practitioners were invited to complete an online survey asking them to rate ...

Title: Recommendations for the implementation of a statewide formative assessment process
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela, Holcomb, Scott
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Early childhood assessments should be used to guide teaching and learning, identify students that may potentially need interventions, and improve educational programs (NAEYC and NAECS/SDE, 2003). Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEA) are implemente...

Title: Seeking the seeker : frameworks for understanding Islamic commodities
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2005
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Contemporary Muslim criticisms of the commodification of religion are similar in some ways to the sociology of culture formulated by members of the Frankfurt School of the mid-twentieth century, particularly Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as i...

Title: Signposts along the road : monumental public writing in Egypt
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Studies of writing in developing societies generally focus on book, newspaper and commercial literacy, and do not address the cultural significance of writing on craft and manufactured objects, on the one hand, and the use of writing on public sig...

Title: The American interest in Islamic schooling : a misplaced emphasis?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Education, Terrorism
Description: Since 2001, many American intellectuals and policymakers have blamed terrorism and conflict on Middle Eastern educational systems, which they claim do little but indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiment. Pressure has been put on many cou...

Title: The hexis of interpretation : Islam and the body in the Egyptian popular school
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Ritual, Education
Description: This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a ...

Title: The political economy of religious commodities in Cairo
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Semiotics, Material culture
Description: Anthropology’s rediscovery of material culture has emphasized the centrality of objects and their production in constituting human experience. In Egypt, the design, mass production and marketing of different classes of religious objects-from praye...

Title: The varieties of secular experience
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Secularism, Religion
Description: Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...

Title: Unique infant mortuary ritual at Salango, Ecuador, 100 BC
Author: Juengst, Sara L., Lunniss, Richard Marshall, Bythell, Abigail A., Ortiz Aguilú, Juan José
Subjects--Topical: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Human remains (Archaeology), Infants--Mortality
Description: The human head was a potent symbol for many South American cultures. Isolated heads were often included in mortuary contexts, representing captured enemies, revered persons, and symbolic “seeds.” At Salango, a ritual complex on the central coast o...

Title: Violence and the rhetoric of images
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
Description: This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...

Title: Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 1999
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism
Description: In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...