(1980). Sharing Teaching Ideas: Kids Have Dropped Over Dead Converting Metrics!. Mathematics Teacher, v73 n1 p36-39 Jan. Presented are suggestions for teaching metric conversion and the properties of quadrilaterals. (MK)…

Kovacs, Diane; Robinson, Kara (1993). LibRef-L: Sharing Reference Expertise over the Academic Networks. Wilson Library Bulletin, v67 n5 p47-48,50 Jan. Describes LibRef-L, an electronic mail-based conference that was developed to provide a forum for the discussion of library reference service issues. Networks and electronic mail are described; a profile of subscribers is given; and how to subscribe to LibRef-L is explained. (two references) (LRW)…

Loh, Matthew (2013). Dense, Efficient Chip-to-Chip Communication at the Extremes of Computing. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Technology. The scalability of CMOS technology has driven computation into a diverse range of applications across the power consumption, performance and size spectra. Communication is a necessary adjunct to computation, and whether this is to push data from node-to-node in a high-performance computing cluster or from the receiver of wireless link to a neural stimulator in a biomedical implant, interconnect can take up a significant portion of the overall system power budget. Although a single interconnect methodology cannot address such a broad range of systems efficiently, there are a number of key design concepts that enable good interconnect design in the age of highly-scaled CMOS: an emphasis on highly-digital approaches to solving "analog" problems, hardware sharing between links as well as between different functions (such as equalization and synchronization) in the same link, and adaptive hardware that changes its operating parameters to mitigate not only variation in the… [Direct]

Brooks, D. Fredrica; Nowacki-Butzen, Stephanie; Yarhouse, Mark A. (2009). Multiple Identity Considerations among African American Christian Men Experiencing Same-Sex Attraction. Counseling and Values, v54 n1 p17-31 Oct. The authors explored the experiences of African American men who identified as Christian and experienced same-sex attraction. Participants completed an online questionnaire addressing experiences of same-sex attraction; meaning attributed to their attractions; the sharing of their experiences with others; and perceptions regarding the intersection of their faith, race, and sexual identity. Most respondents (61.5%) felt different from their peers for gender-related reasons, and most (80.8%) had had homoerotic experiences during the teenage years. Over 40% of participants indicated that their primary identity was Christian, and several shared their experience sorting out attributions and meanings associated with same-sex attraction in light of their racial and/or religious identities. (Contains 1 table.)… [Direct]

Johnsen, Heidi L.; Pacht, Michelle; Tsao, Ting Man; van Slyck, Phyllis (2009). The Messy Teaching Conversation: Toward a Model of Collegial Reflection, Exchange, and Scholarship on Classroom Problems. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v37 n2 p119-136 Dec. In this essay, the authors argue that only by sharing their mistakes and uncertainty can they fully reflect on their own process as teachers, only by understanding their process can they begin to identify the many factors that contribute to classroom messes in the first place, and only by acknowledging the perpetual messiness of their practice can they fully engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In their narratives, the authors gloss over their teaching messes, mentioning them in passing rather than fully representing them. They eschew the unexpected, messy, and slippery process through which their classes unfold in favor of clean solutions, well-designed lessons, and so-called "best practices." (Contains 4 notes.)… [Direct]

Rampell, Catherine (2008). Antipiracy Campaign Exasperates Colleges. Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n49 pA1 Aug. This article reports on the withdrawal of some universities' support of a music industry's campaign against music piracy on their campuses. Talk to the chief information officer at just about any American university, and he will probably say that his institution has bent over backward to help the Recording Industry Association of America curb illegal file sharing on his campus. For years the entertainment industry and higher education have considered themselves allies in the fight to curb illegal file sharing on campuses, most visibly through the Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities Technology Task Force. Over the past year, joint-committee members from universities say tensions have grown, primarily because they feel betrayed by the industry's lobbying to force filtering technology on university networks. On e-mail lists and in interviews, university CIO's and other information-technology professionals say their mission is getting derailed and staff… [Direct]

Burnham, Melissa M. (2007). The Ontogeny of Diurnal Rhythmicity in Bed-Sharing and Solitary-Sleeping Infants: A Preliminary Report. Infant and Child Development, v16 n4 p341-357 Aug. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the development of sleep-wake and melatonin diurnal rhythms over the first 3 months of life, and the potential effect of bed-sharing on their development. It was hypothesized that increased maternal contact through bed-sharing would affect the development of rhythms in human infants. Ten solitary-sleeping and 8 bed-sharing infants' sleep-wake patterns and melatonin secretion were examined for 72 h at 1 and 3 months of age in their homes. Infants wore actigraphs on their ankles to study sleep-wake patterns. 6-Sulphatoxymelatonin was obtained through urine extracted from each diaper used over the 72-h study period. No significant differences were apparent in the timing of appearance or magnitude of sleep-wake or melatonin rhythms between bed-sharing and solitary-sleeping infants. Sleep-wake results were in the expected direction, with bed-sharing infants displaying more robust rhythms. A large degree of individual variability was… [Direct]

Gray, Colin; Smyth, Keith (2012). Collaboration Creation: Lessons Learned from Establishing an Online Professional Learning Community. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, v10 n1 p60-75. This paper describes the design, implementation, evaluation and further refinement of an ELGG-based social networking site to support professional development activity, project group and special interest groups, and the discussion and sharing of educational experiences and resources across Edinburgh Napier University in the United Kingdom. Beginning with a short overview of what online institutional communities might offer in sustaining good learning, teaching and assessment practice in-house, this paper then describes the rationale for and development of Edinburgh Napier Education Exchange (ENEE). The subsequent evaluation undertaken employed a mixed method approach involving online questionnaires and individual interviews with users of ENEE, and took place between January and April 2011. The evaluation had a twin focus on use and perceptions of ENEE in general, and how ENEE was beginning to be used to provide additional support opportunities for a diverse group of educators… [PDF]

Rose, Amanda J.; Smith, Rhiannon L. (2011). The \Cost of Caring\ in Youths' Friendships: Considering Associations among Social Perspective Taking, Co-Rumination, and Empathetic Distress. Developmental Psychology, v47 n6 p1792-1803 Nov. The current research considered the costs of caring in youths' friendships. The development of a new construct, empathetic distress, allowed for a direct test of the commonly held belief that females suffer greater vicarious distress in response to close others' stressors and problems than do males. Empathetic distress refers to one's strongly sharing a relationship partner's distress over problems to the point of taking on the partner's distress and experiencing it as one's own. This new construct was examined in an ethnically diverse sample of early adolescents who responded to a series of questionnaires in their classrooms. Results indicated that girls did experience greater empathetic distress in friendships than did boys. In addition, the current research revealed that social perspective taking in friendships (i.e., the social-cognitive ability to infer and understand the friend's perspective) had adjustment trade-offs in that it predicted greater positive friendship quality but… [Direct]

Hallinger, Philip (2011). Leadership for Learning: Lessons from 40 Years of Empirical Research. Journal of Educational Administration, v49 n2 p125-142. Purpose: This paper aims to present a research-based model of leadership for learning. It argues that the field has made substantial progress over the past 40 years in identifying ways in which leadership contributes to learning and school improvement. Four specific dimensions of leading for learning are presented: values and beliefs, leadership focus, contexts for leadership, and sharing leadership. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs a review methodology but focuses especially on evidence from several recent empirical studies. While the author argues that progress has been made, limitations–especially with respect to linking leadership practice to different contexts–are noted. Findings: The paper finds that significant progress has been made in identifying the means by which leadership impacts on learning. Research limitations/implications: The key limitation in this research lies in the difficulty in linking leadership to its context. While progress is also beginning… [Direct]

Benedis-Grab, Gregory (2011). Sharing Digital Data. Science and Children, v48 n8 p42-46 Apr. Computers have changed the landscape of scientific research in profound ways. Technology has always played an important role in scientific experimentation–through the development of increasingly sophisticated tools, the measurement of elusive quantities, and the processing of large amounts of data. However, the advent of social networking and the internet have added a new dimension to the role of computers in science. The large quantity of data that scientists require is now shared on a much wider scale than before and is therefore more available. Collaboration over online channels has become a common way for scientists to interact. In many areas of science–from particle physics to climate change–large teams of scientists work together sharing data and resources and collaborating on the scientific process. Students are often not given opportunities to work with shared data and collaborate online, yet these activities promote key inquiry skills such as analysis and communication…. [Direct]

Begg, Andy (2011). Reflecting on Writing Autobiography. Policy Futures in Education, v9 n2 p145-150. The following reflections relate to the reasons for and an approach to an autobiographic task, the notions that underpin it, and some thoughts about the quality and value of such a project. The focus was on the ways one views curriculum change over time; and the intention was to provide an example that others may sense as either familiar or at least reasonable. The task began without data in the form of diaries or similar records, thus the first step was to build up a time line with remembered incidents to highlight themes that might be important. From this a selection of themes emerged. The themes, incidents, reflections on them, and relevant literature read at the same time, formed the basis of the autobiography. Notions of complexity, and of plateaus, mini-plateaus, and connecting rhizomes all influenced the structure of the work. The purposes for undertaking the task included: understanding self, enriching understanding of self and others, sharing experiences, and exploring new… [Direct]

Schaffhauser, Dian (2011). Extreme Makeover: IT Edition. Campus Technology, v25 n1 p36-40 Sep. Air-traffic controller might be a relaxing second career for anyone who's coordinated IT operations at a large research university. Just ask administrators at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As at most big universities, IT operations on the academic side are decentralized on a major scale. When a faculty member in one of Michigan's 19 schools or colleges identifies a need that can be served by technology, that school's own IT group researches and implements the solution. As a result, the institution excels at redundancy: A 2010 Accenture consulting project counted more than 40 e-mail services running on campus; 26 lecture capture systems; 42 ways to stream media; and 28 approaches for sharing documents. During good times, such an approach might be acceptable. But in an economic downturn, nobody tolerates that kind of waste. So, a little over a year ago, Michigan began a process to impose structure on the chaos. A new consultative-governance model was established that… [Direct]

Valenza, Joyce Kasman (2011). Opening Gates: On Celebrating Creative Commons and Flexing the Fair Use Muscle. Library Media Connection, v29 n4 p30, 32 Jan-Feb. The landscape surrounding the use of intellectual property has shifted dramatically over the past couple of years. Teacher librarians, responsible for guiding learners of all ages toward practicing digital citizenship, should be aware of the new rules for playing, living, and working in a new intellectual property sandbox. In the past, librarians have often had to act as gatekeepers regarding use of intellectual property. Today, that gate is nearly impossible to keep closed. YouTube, Google Videos, Flickr, Facebook, and many other media sharing sites are filled with media efforts that do and do not respect intellectual property. While teaching digital citizenship and respect for intellectual property, librarians can act as cheerleaders rather than gatekeepers. In many more cases, they can say \yes\ to creativity by using media in teaching and learning. Librarians need to spread the gospel of Creative Commons, as a tool for student and teacher remixing and creation and as a licensing… [Direct]

Bus, Adriana G.; Davidse, Neeltje J.; de Jong, Maria T.; Huijbregts, Stephan C. J.; Swaab, Hanna (2011). Cognitive and Environmental Predictors of Early Literacy Skills. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v24 n4 p395-412 Apr. Not all young children benefit from book exposure in preschool age. It is claimed that the ability to hold information in mind ("short-term memory"), to ignore distraction ("inhibition"), and to focus attention and stay focused ("sustained attention") may have a moderating effect on children's reactions to the home literacy environment. In a group of 228 junior kindergarten children with a native Dutch background, with a mean age of 54.29 months (SD = 2.12 months), we explored therefore the relationship between book exposure, cognitive control and early literacy skills. Parents filled in a HLE questionnaire (book sharing frequency and an author recognition checklist as indicator of parental leisure reading habits), and children completed several tests in individual sessions with the researcher (a book-cover recognition test, PPVT, letter knowledge test, the subtests categories and patterns of the SON, and cognitive control measures namely digit span of… [Direct]

McDonald, Lisa (2010). iTESOL: Analogous Practices in the SLA Classroom. TESOL in Context, v20 n2 p42-51 Dec. Recent studies of emerging technologies have shown that mobile phone production now exceeds one billion devices globally per year (Johnson, Levine & Smith, 2008). With a level of production that signifies a shift in the ownership of "networked machines" from institutions to individuals, the broad appeal of portable technologies now offers individuals access and control over a growing range of electronic resources. This paper explores resource sharing and collaborative communications practices in the spaces of the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) classroom. From informal conversations with students and the writer's observations, the paper discusses the processes of language acquisition that can emerge through portable technologies such as handheld translators, smart phones, portable computer, and so on. It considers how these kinds of technologies orchestrate and influence student classroom interactions and experiences. In particular, the writing examines social… [PDF]

Shadish, William R. (2010). Campbell and Rubin: A Primer and Comparison of Their Approaches to Causal Inference in Field Settings. Psychological Methods, v15 n1 p3-17 Mar. This article compares Donald Campbell's and Donald Rubin's work on causal inference in field settings on issues of epistemology, theories of cause and effect, methodology, statistics, generalization, and terminology. The two approaches are quite different but compatible, differing mostly in matters of bandwidth versus fidelity. Campbell's work demonstrates broad narrative scope that covers a wide array of concepts related to causation, with a powerful appreciation for human fallibility in making causal judgments, with a more elaborate theory of cause and generalization, and with a preference for design over analysis. Rubin's approach is a more narrow and formal quantitative analysis of effect estimation, sharing a preference for design but best known for analysis, with compelling quantitative approaches to obtaining unbiased quantitative effect estimates from nonrandomized designs and with comparatively little to say about generalization. Much could be gained by joining the emphasis… [Direct]

Fister, Barbara (2010). Ebooks and the Retailization of Research: Peer to Peer Review. Library Journal, v135 n13 p24-25 Aug. Most recently, Amazon crowed that it is selling more ebooks than hardcovers. Interestingly, the most recent figures from the Association of American Publishers indicate that new adult hardcover sales in both April and May rose by more than 40 percent over the same months last year, a rebound from last year's shopping paralysis brought on by the financial collapse. Though ebook sales are growing fast, the author argues that they still represent a small percentage of total book sales. What to her is more significant is that they represent a new relationship readers have with their books. What academics need from ebooks is not less than what they can expect from print books, but more. The challenge they face is including ebooks in libraries without compromising their opposition to censorship, their defense of privacy as a condition of intellectual freedom, their support of sharing as a fundamental process of scholarly inquiry, and their underlying belief that access to information… [Direct]

Sullivan, Patrick (2010). What Is Affordable Community College Tuition?: Part I. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v34 n8 p645-661. During the last 25 years, there has been a major shift in the way that state and federal governments fund financial aid to students attending colleges and universities. This shift has been characterized by the idea of \cost sharing\–a \high tuition, high aid\ model that requires students and their families to shoulder a greater percentage of the burden of the cost of higher education. Unfortunately, however, like much market-driven public policy that has been developed over the last 25 years, we are beginning to see that this policy works better in theory than in practice. This funding model is especially problematic for community college students because it has put higher education functionally out of reach for many Americans, especially the most financially disadvantaged within our communities. It is the argument of this article that we have reached the economic threshold where \open access\ is being fatally compromised by high tuition costs and by student aid being operationally… [Direct]

Trotter, Andrew (2009). Educators Assess "Open Content" Movement. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v74 n6 p61-64 Feb. This article discusses the open-content movement in education. A small but growing movement of K-12 educators is latching on to educational resources that are "open," or free for others to use, change, and republish on web sites that promote sharing. The open-content movement is fueled partly by digital creation tools that make it easy to create "mash-ups," or digital medleys of content of various types. Educators and education-oriented groups advocating open content say it saves schools money by spreading the time and expense of developing curricular resources over many contributors. It also passes on the value that teachers add, when they adapt works originated by others, so other educators can benefit from it…. [Direct]

Gonzalez, Jennifer (2012). Aspen Competition Drives Innovative Ideas for Community Colleges. Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. When Valencia College became the first recipient of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence last month, an unsung sector earned uncommon recognition. Now that the speeches are over and the prize money has been awarded, the Aspen Institute is sharing early lessons from its yearlong effort to determine the top community college in the country. In a way, that is the real goal of the group's effort. Announced by President Obama last year during the White House Summit on Community Colleges, the competition was designed not only to spotlight the sector but also to galvanize and promote promising programs and policies to improve learning, completion rates, and employment outcomes. Valencia's victory was based in large part on its statistical measures of success: More than half of full-time students at the college, in Orlando, Fla., graduate or transfer within three years of enrolling, a rate significantly higher than the national average of 39 percent. The college also boasts a… [Direct]

(2014). 2013 State of States' Early Childhood Data Systems. #2014-06. Early Childhood Data Collaborative In July 2013, the Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC) surveyed 50 states and the District of Columbia to assess state early childhood data systems. The survey, completed by state education, health, and social services staff, focused on these three key aspects of state data systems, taken from ECDC's 10 Fundamentals: (1) Do states have the ability to securely link child-level data across ECE programs and to other state data systems, including K-12, health, and social services?; (2) Do states collect developmental screening, assessment, and kindergarten entry data to examine children's developmental status and service needs?; and (3) Do states have an ECE data governance structure designated to support the development and use of a coordinated longitudinal ECE data system? The major findings from the survey include: (1) In 49 states and the District of Columbia, child-level data across different ECE programs are not all linked. Only one state–Pennsylvania–can link child-level… [PDF]

Rogers, Jenny (2012). 3 to 1: That's the Best Ratio of Tenure-Track Faculty to Administrators, a Study Concludes. Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. In the long-running debate over how many administrators are too many, two economic researchers believe they have identified an ideal ratio. For colleges to operate most effectively, they say, each institution should employ three tenured or tenure-track faculty for every one full-time administrator. What the ratio is now is difficult to say, though most colleges probably would have to hire significantly more faculty or pare back on administrators if they wanted to meet a three-to-one goal. The numbers are fuzzy and inconsistent because universities report their own data. Different institutions categorize jobs differently, and the ways they choose to count positions that blend teaching and administrative duties further complicate the data. When researchers talk about \administrators,\ they can never be sure exactly which employees they are including. Sometimes colleges count librarians, for example, as administrators, and sometimes they do not. In their recent study, Robert E. Martin,… [Direct]

Shen, Entong (2013). Privacy-Preserving and Usable Data Publishing and Analysis. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University. In the current digital world, data is becoming an increasingly valuable resource and the demand for sharing or releasing data has never been higher. Organizations need to make available versions of the data they collected for business or legal reasons and at the same time they are under strong obligation to protect sensitive information about individuals represented in the dataset. This has motivated fruitful research on data privacy over the past decade and various models have been proposed to address the problem of privacy-preserving data analysis. Initial efforts to ensure privacy of released data are based on syntactic definitions such as k-anonymity while subsequent efforts like differential privacy try to provide a more semantic guarantee. In this thesis we contribute to the research of data privacy from several perspectives. First, we address the issue of data usability by proposing a data model to work with anonymized data. This is based on the observation that data… [Direct]

Er, Rukiye Konuk; Sari, Hakan (2016). A New Challenge for Special Education Teacher Training in Turkey: The Newest and Applied Master's Degree Program's Effects. Journal of Education and Practice, v7 n35 p1-8. After the new education reform made in Turkey in 2012 under the leadership of the Minister of National Education Prof. Dr. Omer DINCER, considerable steps have been taken in training teachers who will work in the field of special education. According to Sari (2013), it is known that 48% of approximately 5580 teachers in 2468 special education institutions in Turkey are the graduates from special education departments and 52% of these teachers are the graduates from other departments. Turkey is urgently in need of the appointment of 22000 teachers graduating from the department of special education in 2014 and afterwards. Within the scope of this need in Turkey, one of the steps taken in order to train teachers having required competence in this field is the Applied Master's Degree Program (AMDP). It is a program, which was suggested to the Council of Higher Education by the Minister of National Education Prof. Dr. Omer Dincer, who was on duty between 2012 and 2013, and Assoc. Prof…. [PDF]

Naylor, Charlie; Vint, Amber (2009). The Prevalence of Stress-Related Disorders in BC School Districts. BCTF Research Report: Part of the BCTF Information Handbook. Section XII. 2009-WLC-01. British Columbia Teachers' Federation This paper presents British Columbia Teachers' Federation's (BCTF) research report that has produced tables which allow the BCTF and its locals to consider the prevalence of Salary Indemnity Plan (SIP) claims by school district. While the data shown in this report indicate high prevalence of stress in some school districts, they actually under-report the total prevalence of stress-related disorders in BC teachers. The tables show each district's teacher full-time equivalent (FTE) totals as a percentage of provincial FTEs, as well as their SIP claims as a percentage of provincial SIP claims. Using the 2003-08 data, 34 BC districts have more teachers above age 50 than the 39% provincial average while 26 have below average numbers. Eight districts have over 50% of their teachers over 50, yet only three of these (Sunshine Coast, Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island North) incur proportionately higher SIP claims than the provincial average. This report is a result of co-operation and… [PDF]

Regmi, Krishna (2012). A Review of Teaching Methods–Lecturing and Facilitation in Higher Education (HE): A Summary of the Published Evidence. Journal of Effective Teaching, v12 n3 p61-76. Several studies have documented that teaching methods in HE (generally involves work towards a university or college level education), are the most important aspect of a curriculum. This is because they serve as an interface between the learners and the philosophy of the curriculum. It is, however, difficult to define how knowledge is conceptualized and in what way it influences the choice of effective teaching methods in HE. A literature search using the major databases–Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, JSTOR, PsycINF, and Web of Science–was carried out. This research aimed to focus on two important dimensions: lecturing and facilitation, within the same learning and education process, rather than challenging and demanding it, concerning their roles in teaching and learning. This paper shows that in many areas of teaching and learning, the positivist notions of knowledge are not always sufficient or appropriate. The latter has been conceptualized as a "banking" model of… [PDF]

Kingsley, Chris (2012). Building Management Information Systems to Coordinate Citywide Afterschool Programs: A Toolkit for Cities. Executive Summary. National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families (NJ1) This executive summary describes highlights from the report, "Building Management Information Systems to Coordinate Citywide Afterschool Programs: A Toolkit for Cities." City-led efforts to build coordinated systems of afterschool programming are an important strategy for improving the health, safety and academic preparedness of children and youth. Over the past decade, municipal leaders, foundations, major nonprofit intermediaries, and school and community-based providers have increasingly come together to expand the number of high-quality programs available, increase youth participation, and improve outcomes for young people. Yet even cities with strong leadership and effective coordinating entities are often challenged by the lack of reliable information to answer basic questions about the scope and impact of afterschool programs in their communities. The decision to build or enhance a management information system (MIS) raises its own set of tough questions about what… [PDF]

Ruvane, Mary Brent (2012). Digital Humanities: Envisioning a Collaborative Tool for Mapping, Evaluating, and Sharing Reconstructed Colonial American Parcel Maps. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The use of GIS technology for the humanities has opened up new avenues for visually exploring and asking questions of our nation's historical record. The potential to harness new knowledge with tools designed to capture and preserve geographic links to the artifacts of our past is within our grasp. This research explores the common information needs of a community of interest to achieve their goal of reconstructing the spatial circumstance of America's Colonial era and the information barriers they encounter. It envisions a suite of digital tools to help confidently join together the solitary efforts of dissimilar investigators to facilitate sharing, debate and long term preservation of their painstaking research. The study described in this work examined the common information use behaviors of researchers whose goal is to reconstruct the missing geographic picture of British Colonial settlement in America. The scope of the analysis focuses on the work of two investigators who had… [Direct]

Cho, Jeasik; Mayfield, Kerrita K.; Rios, Francisco; Trent, Allen (2012). Integrating Language Diversity into Teacher Education Curricula in a Rural Context: Candidates' Developmental Perspectives and Understandings. Teacher Education Quarterly, v39 n2 p63-85 Spr. This study took place at the University of Wyoming, located in the rural mountain West. The University of Wyoming, with approximately 13,000 students, is the only four-year university in the state. The teacher education population of the College of Education is about 600, and demographically, this population is about 90% White, predominately female, and from rural communities across the state and other states that border Wyoming. Likewise, most school districts in the state of Wyoming are less diverse (ethnically, racially, and linguistically) than the national averages. Given this context, the College of Education has tried to address issues of diversity at the program level over the last decade or so. This article provides an account of a curriculum development, integration, and implementation initiative in the educational studies department (EDST). The content to be integrated in the program focused on language acquisition, a critical need given the urgency for teachers to support… [PDF] [Direct]