The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship of formal elementary education to the social, cultural, economic and physical environment of the Bedouin in Hail Province, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has modernized rapidly, but the Bedouin have remained isolated from t…
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This study investigated differences in Vietnamese (native) and English (second) oral language proficiency across sex, age, socioeconomic status (SES), and grade levels for Vietnamese students as a result of their exposure to a 3-year (K-2) transitional bilingual education progra…
Since universal education was adopted in Saudi Arabia in 1932, the Ministry of Education has been challenged to build new facilities while replacing rented and deteriorated ones for its rapidly expanding population. The sudden increase in oil revenues in the early 1970s enabled …
The purpose of this study was to determine the role of teacher teaming in school improvement efforts as reflected by teachers' expressions of their sense of efficacy and collaborative efforts. The exploratory, descriptive study involves 37 teachers in a Southwestern elementary s…
The present study was designed to find out how classroom teachers and school administrators interpret the probable effects of mainstreaming on Nigerian primary school pupils. A 40-item questionnaire was used to find out the perceptions, of classroom teachers and school administr…
The purpose of this research was to investigate the interrelations among and between indicators of nutritional status, living environment, and school performance of first through third grade primary school children living in low socioeconomic areas in Khartoum, Sudan. Subjects w…
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 …