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• A comparative study of the traditional Calculus course vs. the Calculus & Mathematica course 

  Park, Kyungmee (1993)

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• Generations: a tapestry of literacy traditions in an African-American family 

  Byrd, Kelly M (2015-12-03)

  Definitions of literacy conform to a model that views literacy as a set of skills reflected by a child’s scores on large-scale tests, which are favored in public schools (Street, 1995). Children from culturally diverse ...

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• Scientia est propentia: school personnel perceptions of their role in empowering a college-going culture among low-income African-American students in a mid-size, public school district 

  Baker, Gianina Renee (2015-12-04)

  Few studies have conducted research examining how the contextual layers that inform an organization’s habitus influence a school district’s college-going culture for its low-income African American students. This qualitative ...

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• Snapshots to re-imagine teacher quality in southern Chile 

  Hidalgo Standen, Maria Carolina (2015-11-25)

  Considering the important role of teachers in improving learning outcomes, teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality ...

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• Developing ESL teaching materials to enhance the Language Partners program at Danville Correctional Center 

  Freitez Freitez, Freddy Pastor (2015-11-25)

  The current research is a Case Study which investigated the development of teaching materials as a way to enhance the quality of the Language Partners program, an English as a Second Language program resulting from the ...

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