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Article Summary: "Involving Teachers in Data-Driven Decision Making"

deal of data at their fingertips, schools were in fact "information poor because the vast amounts of available data they had were ...

Confirming Understanding of Probability

come up on 1 die for the sum of two dice to be 3. As the sides of the dice are numbered from 1 to 6, the die would have...

Hiring Minorities: Diversity in Education

does not lead to the most able getting the job but that many positions are filled to make sure all goes accordingly in the "politi...

Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

Social Justice and Democracy in Education

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

WorkSpace: Benefits For Students, Teachers And Parents

to focus more closely upon the sometimes subtle requirements students have where learning is concerned. Computers represent one o...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Standards Based Assessment

which the general attainment is either falling or rising, in which case it is possible the overall marks will skew, if a whole cla...

Fine Arts/Washington State Standards

The book also explores drawing and painting techniques, as well as offering numerous examples of fine art. Fifteen lessons explo...

Parent/Teacher Communication

Voorhis, 2004). On the other hand, student reported that their teachers urged them to request aid from their parents no more than ...

Evaluation Of A Web Site For Educators

2005; Kirk, 2004). Kims Web site meet all of these criteria. Since June 1997, more than 451,000 people have accessed this site and...

National Statistics And Local Decisions

say. More than a decade ago, Professor Taflinger (1996) recommended people ask specific questions before simply accepting the data...

Instructional Beliefs/Reading

to teaching reading that works best for all students, research indicates that there are factors in the instructional setting that ...

Developmental Supervision/Principal’s Role

problem. There may be an underlying emotional, physical or familial reason why this teacher sleeps during class. However, the teac...

Cultural Mediation/High School Teaching & Learning

cultures go about learning and how teaching strategies can be implemented from a cultural perspective in order to provide for the ...

Interview: An American Original

khaki pants and dress shoes; he saves shorts and tennis shoes for the weekend. Dressing formally as he does gives a very definite ...

ACT Scores; Statistical Analysis

indicator of student attainment levels. Using the scores of the ACT multiple choice tests as the dependant variable a range of i...

Two Issues - Biological Evolution And Air Pollution

to question data, it is a fruitless activity when the evidence is as overwhelming as it is with these theories. Heres what this sc...

Developmental Supervision Case Studies

some questions that drawn from the "upper five categories of Blooms taxonomy," which should stimulate high-order thinking (135). G...

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns

and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

Teacher Unions

pay, and their rights as employees. On the other hand, teacher unions are generally different than other unions perhaps li...

Effective Tutoring Programs

presence of teaching strategies such as CWPT" when this method is compared with "conventional forms of teacher-mediated, teacher-l...

Standards: No Child Left Behind

to use this opportunity to strengthen and streamline their certification requirements to make sure that talented individuals are n...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

Educator Evaluation of Technology Needs

in classroom focus relative to the introduction of technology, but also suggests the problem of gender bias may come into play in ...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

Demographic Changes and Education

consistently adapt their instructional methods in an effort to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students ...

Professional Education Organizations

Consider St. Louis, for example, where at the turn of the century students completed less than three years of school prior to ente...

A Review of an Internet-Based Educational Activity for Children

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

Classroom Technology and Research into Brain Function

prunes connections based on experience." The cycle is "most pronounced between the ages of 2 and 11, as different development are...