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This paper examines the advantages of national centralization of education through a comparative analysis of countries with centralized educational systems, such as Singapore and Finland, versus the decentralized system in the United States. Using international assessments like the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and t...
This document includes handbook titles in Educational Leadership and Education more generally The Handbooks highlighted that can be found on Amazon, provide rich, contextualized information and examination of critical topics. The handbooks may be used by instructors and students as supplementary or main texts and may be used by students to suppleme...
this is a book series that includes handbooks in Education and Educational Leadership.
This is a summary and book review of a widely used and highly recommended book on educational leadership. Educational Leadership graduate students, who are seasoned educators, with many years of experience, at all levels, conducted the review. The Title of the book that was reviewed is: Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practi...
This manuscript is a curriculum guide prepared by experienced educators, with significant classroom teaching and other school and district-level experiences, who are graduate students in educational leadership. Program. It covers major curriculum development topics and is volume 1, in what is expected to be a curriculum guide series.
In this paper we argue that more than ever in an era of uncertain and contentious divisions in our diverse society, it is necessary for caring citizens to examine and commit to the fundamental principles that underpin social equity and social justice. We make the case that from decades of comprehensive and multi-faceted data, it is apparent that th...
The strategies highlighted in this paper have proven to be effective over time and across disciplines in motivating students in higher education to engage in critical analysis and produce extraordinary projects on the concept of social justice. The assumptions, assignments and strategies showcase the scope and quality of social justice endeavors ac...
In this issue the contributors generally support the idea that it is the responsibility and the challenge of educators, including and especially educational leaders to address the learning needs of all students and especially the learning challenges of students with special needs. While most of the authors focus concern and attention on students wi...
This chapter discusses the importance of program evaluation in educational leadership practice as an accountability imperative, and shares a case study of the application of program evaluation in determining the quality of implementation of a systemic school improvement program and the program's outcomes. Program Evaluation is the application of re...
This blog article addresses the limitations of standardized test scores and high school GPAs in college admissions and argues for a more equitably weighted holistic college admissions process.
The paper examines the recent supreme court's decision on affirmation action and college admissions, through historical, socio-cultural and measrement science lens.
This framework suggests that one's positionality statement addresses factors along several key status dimensions that are relevant to the study's purpose, while the reflexivity statement considers how these status factors are likely to influence and interact with the methodology elements and the conclusions that the researcher may draw from the stu...
The report presents findings from an implementation study of HCZ early childhood program
Report on Outcome Study of HCZ Early Childhood Pfrogram
Social and emotional learning (SEL) as a defined and understood body of knowledge, and as clearly defined sets of practices, continues to inform educational approaches around the world. The universality of SEL rests on two very important pillars: (1) The Brain (2) Development. The Brain Cross-culturally, normal brain development occurs in predictab...
Paper examines how three pillars of academia may be weakened and why they must be protected to preserve the soul of academia.
Paper offers a framework for considering one's professional impact.
This is a reference guide on common English grammar errors made in writing and speaking with corrections and examples.
Dissertation/Thesis Research Design and Methods
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study which was designed to measure changes in the knowledge and perceptions, among graduate students in counseling and school psychology, of issues which affect the lives of children and families who are homeless. The numbers of homeless children and families have grown significantly in recent decades an...
Powerpoint on Social and Emotional Development Among Adolescents
This is a report on a mental health survey and needs assessment in a public school system.
The search for a term to adequately describe the synergistic, implacable, dynamic and recursive interactions among the forces that influence cognition has led us to the term "ecomentation". The consideration of the ecology of cognition speaks to the idea that there are symbiotic relationships among environmental, emotional and physical influences t...
”Building Social Capital from the Inside Out” considers the internal, intra-personal, self-awareness and self-management attributes that serve as foundational skill sets for competent social engagement, social awareness, relationship building and interpersonal skills.
In this writer’s view, the building of social capital starts with the development of personal individual capital. The author posits that an individual may not be optimally effective in building meaningful social relationships and networks, or in influencing results in one’s community that serve the individual and others well, unless the individual...
This is an English Grammar reference guide that highlights common errors in writing and speaking English with corrections and examples.
Recent investigations have established strong causal relationships between higher achievement outcomes among students and their increased use of specific learning strategies and meta-cognitive processes. Moreover, it has become increasingly evident that even the lowest achieving students can be taught to improve their achievement outcomes through t...
Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedagogical and experiential learning models as well as provocative new paradigms...
Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedagogical and experiential learning models as well as provocative new paradigms...
Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedagogical and experiential learning models as well as provocative new paradigms...
Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedagogical and experiential learning models as well as provocative new paradigms...
GEAR UP, a federally-funded pre-college outreach program, strives to provide academic and other supports to middle and high school students and their families to help them prepare for, and pursue, higher education. GEAR UP was established in 1998 by President Clinton through Title IV of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA)....
GEAR UP, a federally-funded pre-college outreach program, strives to provide academic and other supports to middle and high school students and their families to help them prepare for, and pursue, higher education. GEAR UP was established in 1998 by President Clinton through Title IV of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA)....
In-depth study of the human genome holds the potential to provide needed focus on genetic disorders that affect hundreds of thousands of children and significantly affect their development. Neurofibromatosis Type-1 (NF-1) is one of the most common genetic disorders that affect neurological, cognitive, social, and physical development. NF-1 affects...
Despite living in disadvantaged urban communities experiencing social and economic hardships, many children emerge with positive outcomes. Social-emotional competence and social support were hypothesized to have strong influences on academic trajectories during the critical period of academic skill acquisition. Participants were 282 third-grade stu...
Children in today's society face many stresses from a variety of sources that have a major impact on thier psychosocial adjustment and academic performance in school. These stressful events and thier consequences on the quality of life and academic success are particularly significant among low-income and ethnic minority students in American societ...
Children in today's society face many stresses from a variety of sources that have a major impact on thier psychosocial adjustment and academic performance in school. These stressful events and thier consequences on the quality of life and academic success are particularly significant among low-income and ethnic minority students in American societ...
The essential findings of Thomas Cook and colleagues in their article, "Comer's School Development Program in Prince George's County, Maryland: A Theory - Based Evaluation," are expressed in their abstract as follows:
A randomized experiment of Comer's School Development Program was conducted in 23 middle schools .... [This study] showed that Comer...
This book is intended for those who are worried about the state of schools and who want to improve them. It focuses on the Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment (ATLAS) program, which brought together the most successful ideas and practices of four partner organizations (Education Development Center, School Development Program, Harvard Projec...
Despite reports that substance abuse among young Americans is on the decline, the problem among young male African Americans continues to be of major concern. School-based prevention strategies offer promising alternatives for reducing the risk factors for substance abuse among this group. The most successful of these programs appear to be those th...
The relationship of demographic variables to teacher reports of behavior problems in six-to-eight-year-olds was examined. Contrary to previous research findings associating teacher-reported problems with poverty and gender, multivariate analyses found significant associations only for ethnicity and caretakers' marital status. Implications for resea...
The Comer School Development Program (SDP) is a child-centered, data-driven, whole-school change process. It was designed by James P. Comer, MD, to recreate a caring, nurturing, and challenging learning community, in which adults work collaboratively to address children's psychosocial and academic development. The Comer SDP has been effective in en...
James Comer's educational philosophy and his ideas for school reform place child development and human relationships at the center of school change. These ideas, and the School Development Program (SDP) that he founded in 1968, have had considerable influence on school reform and school improvement strategies in the United States and abroad. The no...
This article asserts that schoolwide interventions have the greatest potential for buffering students from violence outside of schools and for preventing violence within schools. It examines critical aspects of one such intervention, the Comer School Development Program (SDP), and explores the ways in which this program directly and indirectly impa...
Reviews the literature on the relation between school climate and educational outcomes. Topics discussed include the impact of school climate on children's development and on student behavior and success. Research suggests that a positive school climate is especially important for African American or low SES students. The extent to which suspension...
Discusses elements of the School Development Program (SDP), which is designed to rebuild learning communities by connecting the significant adults in children's lives through a collaborative process of systemic reform and school improvement. The 3 mechanisms of school planning and management team, student and staff support team, and parent program...
This book presents a compilation of papers generated by the research unit of the Comer School Development Program. The program operates from the basic theme that if school staff understand child development and how to organize and manage their school building as a social system, a climate that facilitates learning among the greatest number of stude...
Teen parenthood continues to be a sig nificant educational and social issue among middle level and high school stu dents. The level of sexual activity and the rate of teen pregnancy among school children require serious attention and strong, urgent action. Here's a look at a middle school teen parenthood preven tion program that has proved to be ef...
The School Development Program includes a School Planning and Management Team, a Mental Health Team, and Parents Program. The mental health component involves collaboration of child development and mental health experts and the community in dealing with individual student and global school issues in mental health. (SK)
Offers the premise that African-American children benefit from cooperative learning strategies because of their cultural heritage, family background, and socialization. Cooperative learning strategies are reviewed, and a theoretical analysis of the sociocultural basis for cooperative learning orientations among African-American children is presente...
Practice resting on theories of society, of needs, of social relationships: applications.
The academic performance of minority high school students, particularly in urban inner-city settings, is of great interest to educators and individuals concerned with the academic development of these students. It is widely recognized that in order to positively influence academic achievement related factors such as learning and study behavior, mot...
The present study examined the effects of a school improvement program on students', teachers', and parents' perceptions of school and classroom climate, as well as on student achievement and attendance. The samples included 306 randomly selected students in Grades 3–5 from 14 elementary schools, 98 teachers, and 276 parents. The results indicated...
Developed and tested a self-report instrument, the Student Thinking About Problem Solving Scale (STAPSS), designed to assess students' awareness and use of higher-order cognitive processes during problem solving. 172 inner-city 7th–11th graders (68% Black, 32% Hispanic) were administered the STAPSS to assess its psychometric properties. Factor anal...
The importance of teachers as significant others in the formation and development of children's school-related self-concepts has been widely recognized. However, the relationship between teachers' assessments of children's nonacademic school-related behaviors and children's school-related self-concepts has not been sufficiently investigated. The pr...
The relationship between children's self-concepts and their academic achievement has been well established. More recently, the multidimensionality of the self-concept and the relationship of specific self-concept dimensions to achievement have been investigated. However, the multidimensionality of the self-concept among minority gifted children has...
The relationship between specific dimensions of children's self-concept and their social competence as assessed by their parents, teachers, and themselves was examined in the present study. The relative predictive power of six self-concept dimensions in predicting children's assessment of their social competence was also studied. Subjects were 253...
Administered a learning and study strategies inventory (C. E. Weinstein et al, 1985), which assesses cognitive skills, study behavior and motivation to 148 high-, average-, and low-achieving high school students in an inner-city school. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that the low-achieving Ss differed significantly from their average and...
Of 397 Black junior high school students questioned, the number who held a positive opinion of their counselors' role was not significantly higher than the number holding a negative view. Female students had significantly more positive opinions than did male students. (CMG)
This study investigated self- and teacher expectancy effects on the academic achievement of a group of special students. The sample consisted of 172 male and female freshmen enrolled in an academic reinforcement program. Teacher expectations were manipulated by providing lists purporting to indicate students who were likely to improve in performanc...
185 Black males and 212 Black females in Grades 7, 8, and 9 completed a questionnaire assessing their perception of the role and effectiveness of the school counselor. Chi-square analyses were used to examine the relationship between grade level, sex, and age (13–26 yrs) and the perception of the role and effectiveness of the counselor. Results sug...
