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The Effectiveness of a Targeted Communications Campaign to Improve Student Persistence
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
Zero Tolerance’s Harmful Effects: Its Origins, Misinterpretations, and Discriminatory Nature
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
Zero tolerance policies that mandate expulsion for a variety of student behaviors have become extremely prevalent in almost all schools today. These policies originated as federal law in the 1980s and transitioned into the ...
Educating Teachers for Urban Schools
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
This capstone is based upon the idea that teachers can be effectively trained, especially to work in urban areas through student-teaching experiences. The aspects that contribute to meaningful and educational experiences ...
Assessing Fluency Assessment: A Detailed Look at One-Minute Fluency Measures
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-10-10)
In 2000, the National Reading Panel named fluency one of the five pillars of reading instruction. As a result, schools across America adopted a variety of fluency assessments. More recently, one-minute fluency assessments ...
Elements of Effective Tasks in Creating Positive Dispositions: A Capstone Project
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
Research has shown that while the discipline of mathematics focuses on negotiation, interpretation, and uncertainty, classroom mathematics often focus on rigidity, rules, and prescribed algorithms. This misalignment of ...
Ed's Report Card: A Framework for District Performance, Birmingham Education Foundation
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-04)
When Mission and Market Forces Intersect: A study of NAIS member schools navigating an economic recession
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
Alphabet Soup: Making Sense of Spelling Instruction
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-09-15)
This essay explores the orthographic discipline of spelling instruction. More specifically, the spelling of English words is examined and the resulting suggestions for implementation and instruction in the classroom are ...
The Political Nuances of Narratives and an Urban Educator's Response
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06)
In recent years, theorists have begun to explore the ways in which the narratives our children read influence the democratic ideals we wish to impart. In a nation so stratified along both racial and socioeconomic lines ...
Serving Students in Diverse Classrooms
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
Like all people, adolescent members of racial, linguistic, and socio-economic class minorities are in possession of norms and values from their home cultures that influence how they see and act in the world. Unlike those ...