In this qualitative study, ethnographic methods were used to identify parent funds of knowledge related to ocean literacy in a rural, coastal context. Participants included 16 parents of students in the teacher-researcher's third-grade classroom. Interactions between parent-child, parent-parent, and parent and the teacher-researcher were studied in order to determine factors...
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of consumer
credit by teenagers in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Data for the study
were obtained from a questionnaire administered to junior and senior
students in Klamath Union and Henely High Schools. Of the 295
questionnaires administered, 285 were tabulated and...
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Physical education is important to promote physical activity of adolescents with and without disabilities, but many adolescents are not active during physical education classes. Innovative instructional strategies are imperative to change this phenomenon, but it will be challenging to develop effective instructional strategies without thorough understanding of students' physical activity...
Time is the educational resource educators most desire, but which is
in shortest supply. Educators cannot add more days to the 12-month
calendar year, or minutes to the day. Whatever control is to be had over the
calendar and clock rests in the way time is managed by those in...
The increasing costs of labor and food accompanied by limited
budgets are some of the problems facing the school foodservice director.
A plausible solution for cost increases is more efficient
use of time. The purpose of this research is to develop a method to
determine the time spent in common...
There is a lack of available information concerning availability,
usability and utilization of school-owned land in western Oregon,
southwestern Washington and northwestern California. It would be
helpful to know if land is available for agricultural use, how it is used,
and ways that it can be used to give experience...