Findings indicate that students who have previously experienced a personal witness or conviction of their relationship with Deity are more prepared to confront the conflicts of secularization. Those who have higher levels ...

The ecological framework is revisited in the discussion as a way to address issues related to school and classroom organization and structure and how they affected children's relationships with and perspectives about peers ...

Despite decades of school reform efforts, there has been little success in addressing pervasively inequitable outcomes within the public school system. Although there has been a great deal of scholarship around the achievement ...

According to a 2007 U.S. Census report, 43% of children in America younger than six are classified as low income (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007). The USDA (2008a, 2009a) indicated 17.1% of school-aged children are classified ...

A case study on the school effects which fostered resiliency among a specified group of students at York High School is presented. The purpose of the study was to examine the integration of personal factors with school ...

This study positioned the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2002 as a reified colonizing entity, inscribing its hegemonic authority upon the professional identity and work of school principals within their school ...