For the most part, high school activism in the Midwest has not been the subject of scholarly research. Moreover, the Chicano Movement in Chicago is a history that at present remains largely unrecorded. This study examines ...

Aesthetic education is concerned with development of feeling and value by exemplars and cultivates enlightened cherishing. Aesthetic education orders feeling as the intellectual studies order thought. The aesthetic aspects ...

All the Japanese bilinguals were aware of these differences but they either could not adapt to American conversational styles or chose to retain their Japanese styles. Americans also had divided opinions as to how interactions ...

The findings indicated a priority by these principals in regard to effective schools skills in establishing a conducive student-centered learning environment. Principal and teacher interviews also highlighted many of the ...

Federal accountability legislature, such as NCLB, brought the achievement gap to the attention of school districts. The federal legislature forced districts to look at disaggregated scores to expose the achievement gap ...

Recent school reform efforts have focused on changes in student course taking patterns in order to improve student performance. The Illinois Board of Higher Education minimum college admission requirements, modeled on the ...

Major conclusions of this study were that the majority of the participants did not connect the importance of high school education to their future lives when they were attending high school because they felt the school ...