Little attention has been paid to the problems of teachers and school systems when they combine grades in one school or classroom. Combining grades carries implications for teachers, the way they teach, the training they receive, and the way they are handled by government author…
Little information is available in the literature about whether some mistakes made by young learners of Arabic are to be expected at a particular age and grade. A descriptive study of the reading and spelling errors made by children learning Arabic was carried out within a devel…
Until recently music has not been considered a vital part of the total curriculum in Nigerian schools, the major emphasis in primary education having always been placed on such subjects of Reading, Languages, Mathematics and Social Studies. Previous studies have examined the nat…
As a result of the economic, social, and political climate in Somalia, many Somali Bantu were prevented from learning to read and write their own language. This study explored the experiences of one Somali Bantu refugee family as they learned to negotiate the language and cultur…
The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the potential viability of Holocaust education for students of grades 5-8 in New York Orthodox day schools. The researcher surveyed educators of grades 5-8 who were employed during the 2003-2004 school years in New York Orthodo…
Endogenous growth theories link a country's stock of human capital to growth and development. Thus, raising the stock of human capital is a major policy priority of developing countries. Yet, the existing literature remains mostly inconclusive on what the governments can do to r…
The purpose of the study was to explore the way the public elementary school system in Cyprus currently accommodates academically advanced students, through the lived experiences and expressed needs of selected students, their teachers, and their families, while examining the at…
This work explains the detrimental effects of mean behavior toward others in school settings: one school in the United States and one school in Indonesia. Several accepted definitions of bullying are presented and social and emotional learning (SEL) is defined. A link between bu…
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the impact of primary school management on learning outcomes of females in Bangladesh. A major research question that guided this study was: Why the children of government primary schools have lower levels of competency compared to c…
Children begin learning at birth and efforts to prepare children for school success should also begin early. Thirty percent of all American children arrive at school minimally prepared to learn. According to The National Association of Elementary School Principals (2005), due to…
This study investigated the word attack strategies used by English-speaking first graders learning Hebrew as a second language when they read English (L1) and Hebrew (L2). Seventeen first-grade students were observed while reading narrative and expository texts in English and He…
Ce mémoire étudie la situation de l'accès à l'éducation élémentaire au Sénégal en procédant à une analyse des dépenses publiques associée à la dominance stochastique. Je montre ainsi qu'en général, les inégalités dans l'accès à l'enseignement de base ont diminué entre 2001 et 20…
I implemented a social studies unit that integrated a design challenge with a group of third graders in an urban elementary school in the northeast. I have a well-mannered, hardworking class that comes to school everyday eager to learn. There are 24 students in, 14 girls and 10 …
This research represents a textbook analysis of third grade of government elementary school in Egypt. The textbook that was used in this research is Hand in Hand, Primary Three English, Book 1. The purpose of this research was to find out how vocabulary, reading, and grammar wer…
Research Question. In what ways will providing a specific set of phonemic awareness activities such as sound blending, segmenting, and rhyming help my kindergarten students understand an early component to reading? Research Activities. This study explores the effectiveness of ph…
To determine the level of entrepreneurial organizational characteristics in Hawaiian public elementary schools, 3,816 teachers in 111 schools were surveyed using the Public School Entrepreneurial Inventory (PSEI). This survey was developed and used previously in Israel. This was…
This teacher research study examines the literary talk and classroom community that emerged during Book Club meetings, fishbowl discussions, and a Retrospective Reflection session which transpired in my fifth grade classroom over the course of two thematic units. Themes of cultu…
This thesis analyzes the failures of Pakistan's educational system and proposes concrete measures to reform it, drawing on local models that have proven successful. Specifically, it seeks to determine a link between U.S. security and a functional primary education system in the …
Cette recherche a mené à une étude exploratoire des représentations sociales d'enseignants de l'école primaire marocaine au regard des élèves ayant des difficultés d'apprentissage en mathématiques et au regard de leur intervention auprès de cette catégorie d'élèves. Le chercheur…