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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 ...
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 ...
Successful Practices in Culturally Responsive Educational Programming for Immigrant and ELL Parents
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
This paper identifies the need to improve the academic achievement of immigrant and ELL children, particularly those living in conditions of poverty and proposes to do so by increasing parental involvement in children’s ...
“Basking in the mirror of yesterday’s glory…”: Engaging Disengaged Readers
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
In the paper I explore some of the history of disengaged readers and segue into an exploration of the ways in which more recent literature discusses disengaged readers. I conclude with implications as to how the more recent ...
Weaving Expository Texts into the Fabric of the Elementary School Curriculum
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-03-01)
With the growing realization of the importance of introducing students to expository texts at a young age coupled with the motivational benefits for young students, there has been an “explosion” of informational trade ...