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Title: A QUALITATIVE MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EXPLORING HIGH-PERFORMING TEACHER AGENCY AND REFORM OF “LOW-PERFORMING” SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Kessler, William
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: Since the early 1980s, American educational reformers tried to improve schools through standards, high-stakes tests, and punishments for those schools that failed to meet the mark. In North Carolina, many schools with diverse populations and low s...

Title: An Examination of Elementary Math Anxiety, Self Efficacy, and Academic Achievement
Author: McMillian, Kimberley
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: The study aims to explore the level of suburban 5th grade students’ mathematics self-efficacy, math anxiety, and academic achievement, to discover the possible interconnections between these parameters. The measures used to evaluate each included ...

Title: EXPLORING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY
Author: Casto, Amanda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Schools around the world have experienced unprecedented change during the contemporary era of globalization. The student population is becoming more diverse and, consequently, teachers have been tasked with meeting a wider range of needs from mult...

Title: School Choice and the Latinx Community: Increased Opportunity/Exclusion in Mecklenburg County
Author: Handler, Laura
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Advocates of market-based reform strategies such as school choice claim they will offer families better options to obtain a high-quality education for their child, yet empirical studies offer inconclusive evidence of gains in student achievement a...

Title: Students' Perceptions of Early Childhood Program Quality According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards
Author: Javidi, Farhad
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent to which one community college was preparing its early childhood education students for employment in the field according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) p...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS, AND SKILLS ON CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE IN AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM
Author: Long, Pamela
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Today's students are more ethnically diverse than ever, but are taught by teachers who are a majority white. In response to this cultural mismatch, teachers are adopting innovative practices such as culturally responsive teaching. This qualitative...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

Title: The Politicization of The 1619 Project—The Necessity for Transformative Curricula in Social Studies
Author: Rochester, Antoinette
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: In August 2019, The New York Times published what was said to be a "controversial" journalistic take on African American and American history. Written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, an awardee of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Genius Award, and her f...

Title: Using Tools to Support Productive Mathematical Discussions: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Bacak, Julie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education, Elementary, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Facilitating productive mathematical discussions is considered a core practice of mathematics education. The complexity of this teaching practice presents the need for pedagogical tools to provide structure for preservice teachers (PST) developing...

Title: “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
Author: Norwood, Jessica
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...