Black students across our nation possess academic abilities that must be nurtured and supported within schools. The unfortunate reality is that Black students consistently perform below academic grade level proficiency in...
Keyword:
Culturally Relevant and Responsive Teaching, Culturally Relevant Teaching, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Subject:
African American students -- Education, Literacy -- Study and teaching -- African American students, and Culturally relevant pedagogy
Conceptualizations of early care and education rooted in historical oppression are affirmed by policy and effectuated in organizational practices. Sector stratification, inadequate and disparate compensation and funding,...
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Early childhood education, Educational planning, Organizational justice, and Nonprofit organizations
In selecting an area within education to focus on for my disquisition, I chose to focus on dual enrollment programs. Dual enrollment, a nationwide program allowing high school students to take college classes, prepares high...
Keyword:
Career and College Promise, Career Exploration, College Advising, Dual Enrollment, Early College, and High School Student Development
Subject:
Community colleges -- School enrollment, Southwestern Community College, Dual enrollment, Educational counseling -- North Carolina, Western, and Counseling in higher education
Rural, middle schools in North Carolina have struggled with the Students with Disabilities subgroup in making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in reading since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was passed. Consequences could be dire...
Keyword:
Middle Schools, Reading, and Students With Disabilities
Subject:
United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Learning disabled children -- Education (Middle school) -- Reading -- North Carolina, and Education, Rural -- North Carolina
Abundant studies have documented the benefits of early intervention in overcoming the detrimental effects of congenital hearing loss. This research has lead to past and current recommendations by the Joint Commission on Infant...
Keyword:
Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, Early Intervention, Infant Toddler Program, Special Needs, and Teachers of the Deaf
Subject:
Parents of deaf children -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Parents of children with disabilities -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Deaf children -- Care -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Children with disabilities -- Care -- North Carolina -- Case studies
The characteristics of a leadership development challenge for America's community colleges have been well-documented in the literature. A worldwide population aging trend, college leader retirements, and an ineffective system...
Keyword:
Community colleges, Leadership, Management, Organizational development, Succession planning, and Training
Subject:
Community college administrators -- In-service training -- North Carolina and Educational leadership -- North Carolina
Professional learning communities (PLCs) provide schools with a tool to meet the professional development needs of their teachers through ongoing, job-embedded staff development designed to improve instruction and student...
Keyword:
Elementary Schools, PLC, Principal, and Professional Learning Community
Subject:
Professional learning communities and Elementary school teachers -- In-service training
Educational administrators in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) play a key role in the decisions to adopt or reject educational innovations and as a result are the gatekeepers of technology innovations...
Keyword:
community college, continuing education, curriculum, diffusion of innovation, educational administrator, and photovoltaic
Subject:
Educational innovations -- North Carolina, Diffusion of innovations -- North Carolina, Photovoltaic power systems -- North Carolina, Occupational training -- North Carolina, and Community colleges -- North Carolina
In order for children to receive the best in quality care, early childhood teachers must have a deep understanding of child development and developmentally appropriate teaching methodologies that can only be acquired through...
Keyword:
Community College, Distance Education, Early Childhood Education, and Online Learning
Subject:
Early childhood education -- Study and teaching -- United States, Distance education students -- United States, and Community colleges -- United States
As the growing popularity of podcasting and its application in education become more apparent, there have been a number of studies on the academic use of podcasts. A podcast is a digital file that can be delivered automatically...
Keyword:
Japanese and Podcast
Subject:
Japanese language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Case studies, Podcasts -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Educational technology -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Student-centered learning -- North Carolina -- Case studies