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College Student Life
COLLEGE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many colleges and universities have a broad educational mission: to develop the "whole student." On college campuses, extracurricular involvement is a key tool in this personal development. For the majority of... Read more |
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Dylan Klebold
C ASSIEB ERNALL1982-1999 S TUDENT, VICTIM Troubled Youth Earlier in her life, Cassie Bernall, a seventeen-year-old student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, had experimented with drugs and alcohol and had once even discussed killing her parents.... Read more |
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Juanita Millender-McDonald
Millender-McDonald, Juanita1938-2007 Congresswoman Even from her beginnings as a teacher, Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald fought for others. She wrote a textbook that exposed female students to non-traditional careers. She was an advocate for educational and women's issues.... Read more |
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Marva Collins
Marva Collins 1936– Educator At a Glance… Left Teaching to Start Her Own School The Media Focus on Collins Criticism and Commendations Selected writings Sources Teachers need nothing more than “books, a blackboard, and a pair of legs that will last the day,” Marva... Read more |
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Anne Sullivan Macy
Anne Sullivan Macy 1866-1936, American educator, friend and teacher of Helen Keller , b. Feeding Hills, Mass. Placed in Tewksbury almshouse (1876), she was later admitted (1880) to Perkins Institution for the Blind, since her eyes had been seriously weakened by a childhood infection. Although a... Read more |
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Commencement
COMMENCEMENT The culmination of education for the high school student, the commencement ceremony, or graduation, is a major event and transition point for students, parents, and teachers. It is a time for students, parents, and teachers to celebrate their hard work and accomplishments. Students... Read more |
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Looping
LOOPING Looping is a practice in which a teacher stays with the same class for more than one year; it is a multiyear placement for both the students and the teacher. For example, a teacher begins with a group of first-grade students and rather than sending those students on to a new teacher... Read more |
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Johnnetta B. Cole
Johnnetta B. Cole 1936– Educator, anthropologist, writer Discovered Anthropology By Accident Conducted Anthropological Studies Abroad Became President of Spelman College Moved on From Spelman Returned To Administration At Bennett Selected writings Sources Johnnetta Cole has been many things... Read more |
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Assata Shakur
Shakur, Assata (Chesimard, Joanne Deborah Bryon) July 16, 1947 Born in Queens, New York, Joanne Deborah Bryon, a nationalist and activist, spent her early childhood alternately with her grandparents in Wilmington, North Carolina, and with her mother in New York. She dropped out of high school... Read more |
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The action research endeavors of six classroom teachers and their perceptions...
...Since action research...a way for teachers to investigate...and social reflection (Llorens...master's degree program...teachers were female and two were...and their reflections on the ... |
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A Midcareer Feminist Reflection
...graduate student, retired...gratitude to her generation...academy's doors to...New York's City College, now has two female tenure...affirmative action office...points out in her 2006 book...ways we can ... |
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Beginning a team journey of discovery.
...exploratory action research...presents her qualitative...graduate students who were...Students were teachers and aspiring...increase her understanding...redesign her team instructional...participants were ... |
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An Intervention to Address Gender Issues in a Course on Design, Engineering,...
...Bandura's theory of...graduate students who were also practicing teachers. The interpretive...weekly reflections on classes...for four females was moderate...male and female undergraduate...they can improve ... |