Pedagogy and content that disrupt existing heteronormative structures and curriculum with positive representations of LGBTQ people, history, and events are connected to more welcoming school experiences for all students. To understand elementary teachers’ choices with regards to…
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Class size has long been a concern among education stakeholders. Although assumptions about the value of smaller class sizes abound, existing research does not offer clear conclusions about the effects of class size on learning. With respect to instruction, researchers have prin…
This research study is an investigation into how children in public elementary schools are educated through social studies curricula into ways of understanding themselves and their relationships to the nation-state, the land, and people with whom they share the land. The questio…
This research project aimed to promote a group of classroom leaders to become servant leaders. The project was conducted with two-hour seminars for the following three evenings on the following topics: (1) aspects of the Cosmic Education of Maria Montessori, (2) theoretical foun…
The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine the impact of the Jesuit Leadership framework as described by Lowney to confirm if the framework had a positive effect on the schools’ viability and sustainability. Since the first Catholic school opened in 1782, Catholic sc…
The purpose of this research was to examine representations of women in the United States’(US) history content within New York State’s (NY) suggested English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for K-2 students. Adapted from the CORE Knowledge Foundation, and downloaded nationally ov…
As we enter the year 2020 the plurality of races and ethnicities within the United States is reflected in the students attending our nation’s public schools. For the first time in American history the majority of students attending the nation’s public schools are students of col…
Federal legislation through No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2002) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (2015) held schools accountable for improved test scores and academic achievement. The heightened scrutiny in performance and expectations placed enormous pressure on students, t…
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of nine early-career regular education elementary school teachers using an in-depth, semi-structured interview design. The researcher conducted a literature review regarding the history and evaluation of teacher preparation program…
Re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004 (IDEA) shifted identification of students with disabilities from an IQ-achievement discrepancy model to an early preventative Response to Intervention model. This pilot study reviews the brief history of sp…
Counselors working in schools have important roles in effectively addressing childhood adversity. Research over the last two-and-a-half decades has asserted that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a significant public health issue (American Academy of Pediatrics [AAP]; Fel…
This study set out to investigate those factors important for social acceptability among groups of Primary schoolchildren of ten and eleven years. An attempt was made to relate theoretical opinions about popular and unpopular children to actual choice behaviour and reputations o…
Poetry is a genre that supports all aspects of literacy-reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and it is the first to which most children are exposed through motherly lullabies. Yet, while many studies have been conducted on prose comprehension, there is little empirical res…
This study draws upon phenomenological, anthropological, post/colonial, and globalization theories to describe and explain the ways in which four individuals experienced their identities as teachers in an Islamic school. It examines how their identities as educators took shape, …
"Introduction To Early Childhood Education, 7th Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of early childhood education that is solidly based on current research and theories. Grounded in constructivist theory but also covering other perspectives, the text focuses on development…
Elaborar y saber utilizar apropiadamente el Material Didáctico propio de la etapa infantil, son dos saberes muy importantes para maestras y maestros, así como para los estudiantes de esta especialidad, ya que el material didáctico constituye, en estas edades claramente manipulat…
Developing reading skills is one of the critical reasons for public education in America. Having a reading intervention in place for fourth and fifth-grade students who struggle in reading is vital to set students up for success as learning to read switches to reading to learn. …
The purpose of this eight-week study was to analyze how a multi-age primary community utilized the technology available to them from an activity theoretical perspective. In addition, it was aimed at exploring how the technology provided opportunities for second language developm…
The systemic oppression in the United States can be found when educational institutions expand the divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” There is a historical pattern of schools serving the most marginalized communities receiving novice teachers and experiencing high t…