For many young bilingual students in school settings, demands of curricula and standardized assessments take precedence over writing pedagogies that invite and welcome students’ identities and languages into their writing. Pedagogies of voice are a means of providing culturally and linguistically responsive instruction that support bilingual students learning to write...
The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
Co-teaching and collaboration are an increasingly popular service model for English as a second language (ESL). In this model, the language specialist, sometimes called the ESL teacher, works together with a content teacher, each using their respective expertise to meet the needs of students who are identified as English learners...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze criteria
and procedures used in the selection of occupational advisory committee
members in Oregon community colleges. The existence of a
common core of criteria and procedures for selecting occupational
advisory committee members was investigated. Further, the...
On New Year's Eve 1993, there was little indication
that popular President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was about
to take a monumental fall. Mexico was in the midst of
unprecedented prosperity. The world's oldest ruling
political party, Mexico's PRI, enjoyed substantial support.
Allegations of corruption within an authoritarian regime
were...
The purposes of the study were: (1) to provide a descriptive
analysis and historical record of the undergraduate OSU Fourth Cycle
Urban/Rural-Migrant Teacher Corps program; (2) to follow up former
OSU Fourth Cycle corps members to determine their employment status
and attitudes toward their educational experiences; and (3) to determine...
Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....