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Sciurba, Katie; Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
The year 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Eve Bunting's "Smoky Night" (Harcourt, 1994; illustrated by David Diaz). As a Caldecott medal winner, "Smoky Night" is the highest profile picturebook centered on an incident related to police brutality and the profiling of Black citizens--the Los Angeles riots,…
Descriptors: Novels, Awards, Childrens Literature, Picture Books
Sulkowski, Michael L.; Lazarus, Philip J. – Journal of School Violence, 2011
In this article, the authors review efforts to increase the availability of crime data to students and parents, utilize security technologies on campus, allow members of campus communities to carry concealed weapons, use criminal or potential shooter profiling, employ threat assessment techniques, and implement emergency response plans to address…
Descriptors: Campuses, Weapons, Crime, School Security
Dankenbring, Chelsey; Capobianco, Brenda M.; Eichinger, David – Science and Children, 2014
In this article, the authors provide an overview of engineering and the engineering design process, and describe the steps they took to develop a fifth grade-level, standards-based engineering design task titled "Getting the Dirt on Decomposition." Their main goal was to focus more on modeling the discrete steps they took to create and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Curriculum Design, Task Analysis
Linebach, Jared A.; Kovacsiss, Lea M.; Tesch, Brian P. – Campus Law Enforcement Journal, 2011
Campus law enforcement faces unique challenges, as there are different societal expectations compared to municipal law enforcement. Municipal law enforcement models typically focus on traditionally reactive law and order, while campus law enforcement models typically focus on proactive responses to crime and its deterrence. Stressors experienced…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, School Security, Colleges, Police
Eddey, Peter; Baumann, Chris – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
The authors conducted an analysis of 1,049 graduates from post-graduate business programs at an Australian university primarily to determine whether students from nonbusiness backgrounds, after completing a business preparation program, perform at the same academic level as students with prior studies in business. The authors found that students…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Marketing, Business Education, Educational Policy
Orelus, Pierre Wilbert – Current Issues in Education, 2013
Drawing on critical race theory, auto-ethnography, and resistant narratives, this article examines systemic forms of oppression that professors of color teaching at predominantly white institutions have been facing. The author incorporates in his analysis his experience as a faculty of color battling multiple forms of micro-aggression (Solorzano,…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Racial Factors, Racial Bias
Kelley, Michelle J.; Clausen-Grace, Nicki – Reading Teacher, 2009
The authors provide teachers with a rationale for engaging students in independent reading using a differentiated approach. By profiling types of readers, sharing observational tools, and offering teaching suggestions for each type of reader the authors give practical suggestions to facilitate reading engagement and make independent reading more…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
Trowbridge, John – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2008
Profiling landforms actively involves students in measuring the topography of landforms such as beaches, hillsides, and stream embankments. In this activity, the author describes how to set up an inquiry situation in which students can ask questions, seek answers, and develop explanations about seasonal or weather-related changes in the landscape.…
Descriptors: Physical Geography, Topography, Learning Activities, Experiential Learning
Tsai, Pei-Ying; Chang, Wen-Hua; Chen, Sufen; Chang, Huey-Por – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2014
Profiling adolescent students' intentional use of science news reports can inform science news-infused instruction. This study reports on the development and validation of a Views of Science News Instruction Questionnaire (VSNIQ) designed to explore Grade 7 (12-13 years old) students' views of reasoning with respect to science news. Forty items…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Intention
Aggarwal, Praveen; Rochford, Linda; Vaidyanathan, Rajiv – Journal of Marketing Education, 2009
The chair of the marketing department serves a critical role in balancing the needs of the university with those of the faculty. Because most department chairs are drawn from the faculty in their departments, the administrative role they take on conflicts with their desire to maintain their academic roles as teacher and researcher. Although there…
Descriptors: Marketing, Department Heads, Profiles, Administrator Role
Lee, Chwee Beng; Teo, Timothy; Chai, Ching Sing – Teacher Development, 2010
This study aims to examine pre-service teachers' knowledge and regulation of cognition. The authors administered Schraw and Dennison's Metacognitive Awareness Inventory to 254 pre-service teachers in Singapore. The results showed no significant difference by educational level on all subscales except for evaluation, which is a subscale of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Gender Differences
Kong, Luis J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
In this chapter, the author will explore the significance of race from a social constructionist perspective. He will focus on immigration laws and on examples of legal cases that have set the stage for current definitions of whiteness and racial identification. A community-based transformational organizing model will be presented. The model will…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Race, Law Enforcement, Immigration
Kambanaros, Maria; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The Greek and the English versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) were used to assess the linguistic abilities of a premorbidly highly proficient late bilingual female after a haemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident involving the left temporo-parietal lobe. The BAT was administered in the two languages on separate occasions by the first author,…
Descriptors: Accidents, Aphasia, Pathology, Foreign Countries
Li, Frederick W. B.; Lau, Rynson W. H.; Dharmendran, Parthiban – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2010
Existing adaptive e-learning methods are supported by student (user) profiling for capturing student characteristics, and course structuring for organizing learning materials according to topics and levels of difficulties. Adaptive courses are then generated by extracting materials from the course structure to match the criteria specified in the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Programming, Profiles, Student Characteristics
Webb, Patrick; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this article is to analyze and explore the various uses of zero-tolerance among youth in the United States. The authors illustrate the origin, goals, problems, and perceptions associated with this "crime-control measure" among youth within educational settings.
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline, Student Behavior, School Safety