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50 Years of ERIC
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Watras, Joseph – Educational Foundations, 2004
In this article, the author revisits the changing fortunes of Native Americans with respect to their experiences in the three types of government sponsored schools: industrial vocational boarding schools located outside the reservations, vocational boarding schools located on the reservations, and day schools on the reservations that stressed…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Federal Government, Boarding Schools, Day Schools
Watras, Joseph – Educational Foundations, 2003
The author posits that testing teacher quality will not improve education unless people realize how current means of teacher testing could eliminate from teacher preparation the utopian elements that foundations courses present through material from authors such as Maxine Greene, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis. He presents a history of the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Testing
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Watras, Joseph – Educational Foundations, 2000
Problematizes several common labels, noting that while labels designating social categories may prevent people from understanding other people, they can be beneficial. The article explores how some labels (at-risk, culturally deprived, and culture of poverty) have become widely used and how they have impacted thinking and social policy, noting how…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Black Students, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences