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Perfect In America: Implications of the Model Minority Myth on the Classroom SuLyn Weaver -
As a racial minority group, Asian Americans are in a distinct position as the subject of stereotypes, both positive and negative. From the very beginning as Chinese laborers who immigrated to work in the California gold mines in
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Sustainable Education: Lessons from the Arctic Deepak Subramony -
Near one of the northernmost reaches of the contiguous North American landmass - roughly 1300 miles from the North Pole and 500 miles north of the closest paved road — sits Barrow, Alaska, a settlement of around 4,000 ha
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No Child Left Thinking Joel Westheimer -
If students from a totalitarian nation were secretly transported to an American classroom to continue their lessons with new teachers and a new curriculum, would they be able to tell the difference?  I do not ask this questi
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Non-Traditional Effectiveness Joe Fisher - For children with disabilities, access to instruction typically centers on improving their basic-literacy skills. Over the past several decades, federally supported research has sought to substantially improve the basicliteracy outcomes
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Poverty and Education LaMart Hightower -
As the United States population has increased, so has the enrollment of students at either public or private schools. From 1991 to 1999 the percentage of children between the ages of 3 and 5 attending educational programs su
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There is some confusion about the definitions of community service and service learning. The term service learning gets thrown around quite a bit, an educational buzz word at times used to describe virtually anything that involves some type of service to the community. But what are the actual differences?  
It is commonly known that some professions - like those in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields - have traditionally been typecast as 'masculine,' with women often being socialized away from these areas in our patriarchic, male-dominated society. Likewise, some careers - like nursing and K-12 education - have been viewed as traditonally 'female' work.  
If there is one thing that the recent FOX television program got right, it is the gender and age of the school counselor on Glee.  
When you were a kid and took a school field trip, do you remember the most exciting part of the day?  
This semester I’m teaching Adolescent Literature for the first time . . . and loving it. As a former 8th grade Language Arts teacher, I was immersed in the texts that my students were reading. We would talk about texts, share book suggestions, and laugh/cry together over the characters’ predicaments.  
To read press accounts, one would think that Stacey Snyder was dismissed from her teacher preparation program at Millersville University solely because she posted a picture of herself on her myspace site with the caption “drunken pirate” posted underneath. However, like most press accounts, there’s more to the story…much more.  

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