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Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Parents and School Choice: Who Stays, Who Leaves, and Why?
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03)
Providing Quality Instruction in Urban Schools: Through Tracking?
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)
This paper explores the issue of tracking and equity in urban schools. Implications for detracking as well as differentiation are given as possible solutions to the growing gap between our highest and lowest performing ...
Seeing it Through: Persistence and Completion of Low-Income Students at the University of Memphis
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015)
The Vocabulary Manual: A Research to Practice Guide for Teachers who work with Kindergarten - Second Grade Students
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)
This manual provides a brief literature review of the vocabulary needs of struggling readers and how to address them. The manual also provides ideas and activities for teaching vocabulary.
Critically Examining the Discourse of Urban Asian American and Pacific Islander Achievement
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
The practice of critical discourse analysis examines the relationship between language, institutions, and power. This capstone essay critically examines the bimodal, culture-bound, racialized discourses to describe both ...
Restructuring Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Programs for the Urban School Context
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03)
This capstone proposes a restructured pre-service teacher preparation program aimed at
better preparing pre-service teachers to respond to unfamiliar communities and cultures
encountered in the urban school context ...
Translanguaging Pedagogy and Chinese English Learners
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-03-01)
Teaching & Learning Electromagnetism through Agent-Based Modeling
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03-01)
The Maker Movement: Lessons for Educators
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
As we have moved from an industrial to an information economy, there has been interest in fostering different kinds of skills in American schools. These “twenty-first century” competencies include creativity, innovation, ...
RTI and Phonics Instruction: Best Practices for In-class Interventions
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-11-07)
According to the International Reading Association (2010), now called the International Literacy Association, Response to Intervention (RTI) was developed upon the idea of prevention instead of failure. It is an inclusive, ...