Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions and debates facing educators today. (100 entries)
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Arts
The 19th and 20th centuries saw policy makers and practitioners give scant attention to K-12 arts education (Boyer, 1983; Efland, 1990).
Behavioral
A behavioral view of teaching and learning is based on the fundamental idea that behavior is controlled by its consequences.
Comprehensive School Reform
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) refers to approaches to improving outcomes in entire schools. CSR sees the school as the primary unit of change in education.
Counselors
School counselors contribute to the academic mission of schools by delivering comprehensive developmental counseling and guidance programs to enhance the academic, career, and
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English Language Learners
In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of people in the U.S. from ethnic or racial minorities has risen from 47 million in 2000 to more than 100 million, or
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Inclusion
Nearly every professional in the field of education is familiar with the term inclusion , and most of them have a definite opinion about its merit.
Information Processing
The primary goal of education is to help people learn. More specifically, the goal is to help people learn in ways that will allow them to use what they have learned in new
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Mastery Learning
Over the last four decades, few programs have been implemented as broadly or evaluated as thoroughly as those associated with mastery learning.
Multicultural Education
Multicultural education is an idea or concept, a process, and an educational reform movement that assumes America's diversity should be reflected in the staffing, curriculum,
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National Curriculum
Does the United States have a national curriculum? If not, should it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a country having a national curriculum? The answers to these
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MyWire Knowledge
Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs
Because of persistent shortages of teachers in some fields and communities, the continuing criticism of conventional university-based teacher preparation, and new federal
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At-Risk Learners
Who is an “at-risk” learner? When and why is a student considered to be “at risk?” The label “at risk” gained prominence in the taxonomy of educational research in the 1980s
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Cheating in Academic Contexts
Attention to academic dishonesty (aka cheating) by the popular press has burgeoned recently as seen in John Stockwell's movie Cheaters , Prime Time Live's (Velmans & Koppel,
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Cognitive Approaches to Motivation in Education
Often, educators who learn that research on the study of student motivation exists ask, “How can I motivate my students?” This then presents researchers with the difficult task
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Community College Teaching
This chapter will provide educational researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with understandings about community colleges, community college teaching, and community
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Conceptual Learning
Educators generally want students to understand the concepts and principles of the domains they study, rather than only acquiring routine, low-level knowledge and procedural
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Courses and Learning on the Internet
If a surgeon from the 1800s walked into an operating room today where arthroscopic surgery was being performed, could that surgeon step in and perform the surgery?
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