Bieber, Barb; Harris, Bryn; Klotz, Mary Beth; Skalski, Anastasia Kalamaros; Steensen, Becky (2012). Communities of Practice: Creating the Bilingual School Mental Health Network in Colorado. Communique, v40 n6 p22-23 Mar-Apr. A growing strategy in the world of educational reform is the use of "communities of practice" (CoP) as a tool for promoting sustainable systems change. There are three basic characteristics of a CoP that distinguish it from other types of communities: (1) the domain; (2) the community; and (3) the practice. A community of practice model offers an opportunity to systematically examine issues that are increasingly important. A bilingual school mental health CoP is especially relevant for the state of Colorado. Currently, 40% of students enrolled in the Colorado school system are from racially and/or ethnically diverse backgrounds. Furthermore, the total Colorado K-12 growth rate over the last 10 years was 15.6%, while the English language learner (ELL) growth rate during the same time period was 260%. The growth of ELLs alone, especially in the preschool and early elementary grades, indicates the increased demand for bilingual services and culturally and linguistically… [Direct]

Cavanagh, Sean (2012). "Parent Unions" Join Policy Debates. Education Week, v31 n23 p1, 21 Mar. Whether they're organizing events, buttonholing legislators, or simply trading ideas and information, a growing number of "parent unions" are attempting to stake out a place in policy debates over education in states and districts, amid a crowded field of actors and advocates. As the term implies, some of these organizations see themselves as countering the political might of teachers' unions, though others see the labor groups as allies. Still other parents' unions are less concerned with teacher and labor-management issues than with advancing their own tightly focused–or very broad–agendas. Those agendas include improving school gifted-and-talented programs, for instance, and closing achievement gaps between minority and white students. Many parents' unions are still in their infancy, and can count few outright successes or failures in trying to shape policy. Whether such groups emerge as powerful voices, or fade into obscurity, remains to be seen. In Connecticut, a… [Direct]

(2008). Ownership & Authorship of Collaborative Academic Work. CAUT Intellectual Property Advisory. Number 2. Canadian Association of University Teachers The purpose of this advisory is to assist academic staff members in avoiding conflict over ownership and authorship rights in collaborative academic work. When students, professors, librarians and other researchers work together in teams, they can create fundamental advances in knowledge. Unfortunately, these arrangements are also generating conflict over intellectual property ownership and authorship attribution; conflict that can derail projects, damage or destroy careers and undermine the integrity of all academic work. To avoid these difficulties, individuals engaged in collaborative academic projects are advised to: (1) understand the basic academic practices and legal rules that govern the sharing of ownership and authorship rights; (2) be aware of the social and economic contexts that foster conflict over these rights; and, most importantly, (3) reach written agreement on how rights are to be assigned "before commencing collaborative work."… [Direct]

Toms, Marcia L. (2013). A Qualitative Inquiry into the Self-Regulated Learning of First-Semester College Students. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University. The purpose of this study was to discover and describe the self-regulated learning (SRL) of a group of first-semester college students. Using Zimmerman's model of self-regulated learning, this study considered two major research questions: (a) how and why do first-semester college students decide to self-regulate? and (b) how do first-semester college students alter their self-regulation over the course of their first semester in college? These two main questions were supported by data gathered on the following subquestions: (c) what self-regulatory strategies do first-semester college students use? and (d) how do students know if these strategies are successful? This study used qualitative methods to discover and describe the SRL or a group of 8 first-semester college students. The context for the study a program for undecided students at a large, research extensive institution. The primary data collection technique was multiple, semi-structured interviews and was supplemented by… [Direct]

Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar (2013). Empowerment Patterns of Leaders in ICT and School Strengths Following the Implementation of National ICT Reform. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, v12 p141-158. The Ministry of Education in Israel has, over the past two years, been running an education program designed to lead the implementation of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in schools. Implementation of the program is accompanied by training and support of teachers selected to be ICT leaders. The role of the ICT leader is divided to two positions: (1) the School ICT Coordinator, in charge of ICT reform at their school, and (2) the Regional ICT Advisor, in charge at the district level and operating in several schools. Participants in the current research were 226 ICT leaders from one of the districts in Israel that participated in the ICT reform. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the contribution of the ICT reform on schools' ICT leaders and schools' strengths. We also had a theoretical basis for assuming that the ICT leaders will experience personal empowerment as a result of their position and training. Thus, we set out to evaluate the personal empowerment… [PDF]

Abrego, Chuey; Abrego, Michelle; Morgan, Bobbette M. (2009). Creating Win-Win Partnerships and Adding Relevance to Educator Preparation. Contemporary Issues in Education Research, v2 n2 p51-58. The authors describe a partnership between two departments, in a school of education that involves educational leadership and curriculum and instruction graduate students sharing their expertise of teaching and learning with student teachers and alternatively certified teacher interns. This project provides graduate students with active participation in delivering workshops to adult learners. The beginning teachers are the participants. Beginning teachers benefit from gaining hands-on experience and research-based instructional strategies to use in their classrooms. Researchers found this activity increased the graduate students' sensitivity to the needs of beginning teachers. Over 1300 student teachers and alternative certification interns and approximately 530 graduate students have participated in the Teaching, Learning, and Service Conference. The conference is organized twice a year, on a Saturday in the fall and on a Saturday in the spring…. [PDF]

Brown, Carol A.; Hill, Jackie (2009). Connecting Media Specialists, Students, and Standards through Web 2.0. Educational Media and Technology Yearbook Web 2.0 is more than an Internet buzzword. This new platform provides transition from static informational pages to dynamic portals for connecting and sharing of information. School library media specialists can use the read/write tools to ensure students are prepared to work in digital environments that are already commonplace. Blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking sites, and virtual worlds make it possible for readers to also become authors and publishers. Following a review of over 130 school websites, the authors describe common uses by media specialists and make recommendations in how Web 2.0 can be used to support the Library and Learning Standards published by the American Association of School Librarians. [For the complete volume, "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, Volume 34," see ED602586.]… [Direct]

Johnstone, D. Bruce (2009). Conventional Fixed-Schedule versus Income Contingent Repayment Obligations: Is There a "Best" Loan Scheme?. Higher Education in Europe, v34 n2 p189-199 Jul. As more countries are planning to inaugurate or enlarge student loan schemes, much of the debate is over the question of the optimal form of the repayment obligation: specifically, whether it should be according to a fixed schedule of payments or a percentage of earnings or income. This paper argues that the current fascination with income contingency is frequently based on a set of supposed advantages, some of which are mistakenly attributed to income contingency either out of misunderstanding on the part of advocates or for political purposes of overcoming resistance to the underlying notion not of loans, per se, but of cost-sharing itself. The paper goes on to advocate a hybrid loan scheme, which can offer the best of both forms of repayment obligation. (Contains 3 footnotes.)… [Direct]

Bragg, Debra D. (2009). Research that Matters: An Interview with Barbara Townsend, April 25, 2009. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v33 n9 p765-784. This article presents an interview with Barbara Townsend, recipient of the 2009 Exemplary Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division J, recognizing the impact of her work on the field. The \Community College Journal of Research and Practice\ (\CCJRP\) has been an important outlet for sharing Townsend's work with scholars and practitioners throughout her career. Of the numerous articles she has published in \CCJRP,\ a 1985 piece entitled \Faculty Preferences for Institutional Directions for the Community College\ (Townsend, 1985) reported results of her quantitative doctoral dissertation. This article set into motion a long and important trajectory of publication that extended over more than two decades. This interview provides a glimpse into how Townsend's career unfolded, what ideas captured her attention, and what work sustained her passion to make a difference…. [Direct]

Jones, Ginger G.; Smith, Kristina Ann; Smith, VaShawn Daniel (2019). A Policy Analysis of State Policies and Guidelines for Trauma Informed School Practices Implementation. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Saint Louis University. Introduction: The purpose of the project, the identification of the problem, guiding questions, and learning objectives are included in section I. Information concerning the conception and development of this project is included in this section. This project was devised to help state, district, and building leaders in education understand the essential components of trauma informed instruction in schools as well as the enablers and barriers associated with implementation and sustainability of trauma informed schools. The Audience and Stakeholders: Each day educators across the United States are responsible for educating over 50.3 million students to their fullest potential (Glander, 2017). With this daunting task educators must consider as many as 60% to 68% of the students sitting in their classrooms have experienced some form of trauma (Finkelhor, Turner, Hamby, and Ormrod, 2011, Pappano, 2014). Along with identifying the trauma their students have experienced, educators must… [Direct]

Tran, Dung Trung (2010). New Methods and Models in Wireless Networks: Multigraphs–Games–Mechanism Design. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Dallas. The recent evolution of wireless technology makes wireless devices ever more powerful and intelligent. One trend is that wireless devices are becoming more inexpensive and more diverse. As a result, new technologies make it possible to equip wireless nodes with several radio transmitters/receivers. Each radio may support multiple channels which enable nodes to perform many concurrent communications. Therefore, a new model is needed to capture the new scenario. To foster deploying multiple radio interfaces in wireless devices, we investigate the potential advantages of multi-radio wireless networks over single radio networks. To this end, we introduce the concept called multigraph advantage, through which we analyze properties of multi-radio wireless networks. We show that the multi-radio network has advantages over the collection of separated single radio networks. The first basic property of wireless networks we focus on is the connectivity of the network topology. We show that… [Direct]

Cranston, Neil; Ehrich, Lisa Catherine; Kimber, Megan; Millwater, Jan (2011). Ethical Dilemmas: A Model to Understand Teacher Practice. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, v17 n2 p173-185 Apr. Over recent decades, the field of ethics has been the focus of increasing attention in teaching. This is not surprising given that teaching is a moral activity that is heavily values-laden. Because of this, teachers face ethical dilemmas in the course of their daily work. This paper presents an ethical decision-making model that helps to explain the decision-making processes that individuals or groups are likely to experience when confronted by an ethical dilemma. In order to make sense of the model, we put forward three short ethical dilemma scenarios facing teachers and apply the model to interpret them. Here we identify the critical incident, the forces at play that help to illuminate the incident, the choices confronting the individual and the implications of these choices for the individual, organisation and community. Based on our analysis and the wider literature we identify several strategies that may help to minimise the impact of ethical dilemmas. These include the… [Direct]

Sezer, Adem (2010). Geography Teachers' Usage of the Internet for Education Purposes. International Journal of Progressive Education, v6 n3 p38-50 Oct. The purpose of this study is to determine geography teachers' use of the Internet for education purposes and the extent to which Turkish Internet sites can fulfill the needs and requirements of geography teachers' Internet usage. Research is carried out using the screening method. Data were collected by means of a measurement tool that was developed by the researcher (questionnaire form) over the Internet. The study group consists of 174 teachers, who filled out and submitted the questionnaire on a volunteer basis, and all participants were members of an Internet forum, "Geography Teachers of Turkey" Türkiye Cografya Ogretmenleri), that was created for the purpose of information sharing among geography teachers. Frequency, percentage correlation, and arithmetic mean were used, as appropriate, for the purpose of analyzing the data. Study results indicate that geography teachers use the Internet most frequently for the purpose of geography education in order to acquire… [Direct]

Chong, Eddy K. M. (2010). Using Blogging to Enhance the Initiation of Students into Academic Research. Computers & Education, v55 n2 p798-807 Sep. For the net-generation students learning in a Web 2.0 world, research is often equated with Googling and approached with a mindset accustomed to cut-and-paste practices. Recognizing educators' concern over such students' learning dispositions on the one hand, and the educational affordances of blogging on the other, this study examines the use of blogging to initiate students into academic research at the tertiary level. It focuses on the experiences of three students from a third-year music class working on their research paper with blog-based supervision provided by the teacher. The course, in a hybrid fashion, combined face-to-face lectures and tutorials with blog sharing and discussion. The students' individually-owned blogs were specifically used as their research diaries in which they logged in their work in progress, they then received input from both the teacher and fellow students. Based on the researcher's self-evaluation of the teaching-supervising process, an analysis of… [Direct]

Cappelli, Rose; Dorfman, Lynne (2010). Writing with Mentors (DVD). Stenhouse Publishers When learning how to write well, there is nothing more powerful than examining the work of the writers we admire. Real writers need mentors–those writers who inspire us and demonstrate through their style and craft how we, too, can be successful writers. In "Writing with Mentors", Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli, authors of "Mentor Texts" and "Nonfiction Mentor Texts", take us inside two Pennsylvania classrooms and show us how we can use children's literature effectively to teach both informational and narrative writing. Lynne joins fifth-grade teacher Dan Monaghan to teach a lesson on effective leads in nonfiction. They model the "Sharing a Secret" lead, where students transition from telling secrets about themselves to using these secrets as a lead in longer essays to effectively hook readers. Rose joins two second-grade teachers in their fully-inclusive classroom to teach students all about the importance of setting and place in a good… [Direct]

Laney, Christine Marie (2013). Toward New Data and Information Management Solutions for Data-Intensive Ecological Research. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at El Paso. Ecosystem health is deteriorating in many parts of the world due to direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures. Generating accurate, useful, and impactful models of past, current, and future states of ecosystem structure and function is a complex endeavor that often requires vast amounts of data from multiple sources and knowledge from collaborating researchers. Ecological data collection has improved rapidly over the past few decades due to the development, innovation, and large scale deployment of automated sensors, which are capable of measuring a gamut of ecosystem properties over broad spatiotemporal scales. Although complex ecosystem models and analyses are increasingly parameterized with data from such sensors, the challenges of managing, analyzing, and sharing large data sets remain for this field of research. The goals of this research were to: 1) better identify and understand challenges that academic ecological research groups face when incorporating automated sensors… [Direct]

Bai, Xin; Smith, Michael B. (2010). Promoting Hybrid Learning through a Sharable eLearning Approach. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, v14 n3 p13-24 Nov. Educational technology is developing rapidly, making education more accessible, affordable, adaptable, and equitable. Students now have the option to choose a campus that can provide an excellent blended learning curriculum with minimal geographical restraints. We explored ways to maximize the power of educational technologies to improve teaching efficiency and cut costs without sacrificing high quality or placing an extra burden on faculty. This mission was accomplished through adaptable e-learning content design and development. We developed scalable, shareable, and sustainable e-learning modules as textbook chapters that can be distributed platform independently. The resulting e-learning building blocks can automate the assessment processes, provide just-in-time feedback, and adjust the teaching material dynamically based upon each student's strengths and weaknesses. Once built, these self-contained learning modules can be easily maintained, shared, and re-purposed, thus cutting… [PDF] [Direct]

(2010). The Oral History of Evaluation: The Professional Development of Marvin C. Alkin. American Journal of Evaluation, v31 n2 p266-277. Over the past 7 years, the Oral History Project Team has conducted interviews with individuals who have made signal contributions to evaluation theory and practice, tracing their professional development and contextualizing their work within the social and political climates of the time. By capturing the professional evolution of those who have contributed to the ways in which people understand and practice evaluation in the United States today, we hope to create an oral genealogy of program evaluation. This article presents an interview with Professor Marvin C. Alkin, who is currently Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1995, Alkin received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for outstanding contributions to the development of evaluation theory from the American Evaluation Association. In this interview, Alkin chronicles his life experiences related to evaluation, ranging from the development of Center for the Study of… [Direct]

Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. (2018). Psychological Applications and Trends 2018. Online Submission This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral standpoints), from this academic and practical scientific discipline, aims ultimately to benefit society. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the several areas within the Psychology field, new developments in studies and proposals for future scientific projects. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between psychologists, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in psychological issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and… [PDF]

Hutt, Ethan L. (2012). Formalism over Function: Compulsion, Courts, and the Rise of Educational Formalism in America, 1870-1930. Teachers College Record, v114 n1. Background/Context: Though the impact of the legal system in shaping public education over the last sixty years is unquestioned, scholars have largely overlooked the impact of the legal system on the early development and trajectory of public schools in America. Scholars have given particularly little attention to the period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when states began passing laws requiring that children attend school for some portion of the year. These laws brought an end to the era of voluntary schooling in America while posing a difficult set of legal and educational questions for judges who had to interpret and apply them. The evolving logic of these decisions subsequently shaped the role, purpose, and form of education in America. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This article offers a legal history of compulsory education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In doing so, it seeks to understand the role that courts… [Direct]

Thiyagu, K. (2011). Ubiquitous Learning (U-Learning) Awareness among the Tuticorin District B.Ed., Trainees. Journal on School Educational Technology, v6 n4 p26-31 Mar-May. The rapid development of information and communication technologies during the past two decades has had many points of contact with education and training. The use of technology in colleges and schools is not new. Teacher training often includes computer-assisted learning along with other multimedia presentation techniques. The power of ICT over other technologies lies in the "information" and delivery capabilities (Peak, Berge & Zane, 2006). The global network brings learning outside the classroom at any time, any place. Interactive communication without time constraint between and among students and teachers–from local to global level–allows sharing of ideas and experience more easily. Wireless connectivity, notebooks, PDAs and their design and use, a transition from electronic learning (e-learning) to mobile learning (m-learning) is one of the challenges being faced by educational institutions. The recent trend of e-education is called as ubiquitous learning. That… [PDF]

Stoten, David William (2011). Envisaging New Educational Provision: Innovative Organisation in the Age of New Modernism. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, v16 n2 p155-171. In the "age of austerity", educational institutions in many countries are under pressure from a variety of sources to work more closely, reduce costs and raise educational performance. There are a number of possible outcomes that follow on from developing closer institutional ties: sharing of professional expertise through best practice networks, developing greater coherence within the local curriculum and opportunity for students' progression within the education system, and of course, ultimately merger and take-over. The environment within which institutions operate is in a state of flux but is moving clearly towards meeting the challenges presented by Central Government. There has been a shift in British Government policy during the past three decades which has been influenced by ideas drawn from economic instrumentalism, New Public Management and Public Choice theory. Colleges are increasingly viewed by Central Government as a convenient vehicle for local, economic and… [Direct]

Gewertz, Catherine (2010). Facebook-Driven Newark Overhaul Lurches Forward. Education Week, v30 n6 p1, 14-15 Oct. What began as a swashbuckling move by the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the state's governor, and a newly minted billionaire to reshape the beleaguered Newark school system has turned into a tangle of blowback and counterpunches as skeptics contend the plan would violate state law. At issue is the power-sharing arrangement proposed by the three men. In a series of media appearances, including a kickoff announcement on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Sept. 24, they said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would "partner" with Mayor Cory A. Booker over the next five years on a district turnaround, drawing on the millions Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will provide, through a new foundation, from his own Facebook stock. The prospect that the mayor could wield decisionmaking power, however, has alarmed education law experts, who maintain that state law would prohibit such a power shift. David G. Sciarra, the director of the Education Law Center, said that no New Jersey… [Direct]

Duffy, Lawrence K.; Fabbri, Cindy E.; Godduhn, Anna; Middlecamp, Catherine Hurt; Nicholas-Figueroa, Linda; van Muelken, Mary (2011). Engaging Students in Science Courses: Lessons of Change from the Arctic. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v42 n2 p105-136 May. Where you live should have something to do with what you teach. In the Arctic, the idea of place-based education–teaching and sharing knowledge that is needed to live well–is central to the UARCTIC consortium and the 4th International Polar Year educational reform effort. A place-based issue oriented context can engage students in chemistry concepts when it intersects with their experience and lives. This article examines the rationale and means of integrating local concerns such as world view, culture, traditional knowledge, and policy into both general and specialized chemistry courses. More broadly, capacious place-based issues should be widely adapted by all curriculum reform efforts to demonstrate the connectivity between science and societal understanding of technological options. A case in point is the inclusion of indigenous perspectives in a non-majors general chemistry course when the concepts of scientific method, ice and water resources, genetic engineering, and so… [Direct]

Dail, Alanna Rochelle; Edwards, Patricia A.; McGee, Lea M. (2009). The Role of Community Book Club in Changing Literacy Practices. Literacy Teaching and Learning, v13 n1-2 p25-56. Community Book Club began as an experimental approach intended to combine professional development for teachers and family literacy for the parents of the preschoolers involved in an Early Reading First project. We collected data on 11 book club meetings over a 2-year time period. Meetings were held at local churches and at each meeting, participants discussed two books: an adolescent/adult book and a similarly themed children's book. We interviewed participants, videotaped meetings, collected field notes, and kept attendance sheets. Data analysis began at the first meeting and continued throughout the project. We coded data from all sources and identified four major themes: (1) Changes in the membership of book club; (2) Changes in reported home literacy practices of the participants; (3) Sharing the \lived experience\ of reading; and (4) Changes in manner of participation that led to the emergence of new, situated literacy practices. We found that over time teachers, parents, and… [PDF] [PDF]

Newgent, Rebecca A.; Powell, Michael Lee (2008). Disc Golf Play: Using Recreation to Improve Disruptive Classroom Behaviors. Journal of School Counseling, v6 n2. This study examined the use of disc golf as a creative, recreational play intervention for improving classroom behaviors in disruptive children. Twenty-two elementary students were randomly selected for either a treatment or control group and rated at pre- and post- by their teachers on the use of nine positive classroom behaviors (e.g., sharing, raising hand, and compliance). Results of a two-way ANOVA with repeated measures and one between-subjects factor revealed a significant difference (p less than 0.0001) between both groups over time. Implications are discussed. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)… [PDF]

Cecere, Donna-Marie (2017). The Millennial Generation: Common Experience Guiding Them into Adulthood. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Southern New Hampshire University. The Millennial Generation, those born from 1980-2000, see the world from a different viewpoint. This distinctive cohort has structured their lives in a different manner than preceding generations. The introduction and influence of social, political, and technological changes over the past few decades have structured Millennials' unique and sometimes unclear characteristics and behaviors. Dividing and defining people by their birth years can seem like a subjective generalization. However, Howe and Strauss (2000) argue that shared experiences during formative years within a cohort result in a distinctive generational bond resulting in common attitudes and behaviors. Millennials have been labeled as one of the most overprotected and enabled generations in history, and mentors are uncertain how to beneficially nurture this generation as they transition into adulthood (Lykins & Pace, 2013: Twenge et al.).Generations are shaped by the dynamic interplay of history and popular culture,… [Direct]

Lane, Andy (2010). Designing for Innovation around OER. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, . This paper argues that designing collections of "closed" educational resources (content and technologies) for use by specific student cohorts and collections of open educational resources for use by any "learner" require different design approaches. Learning design for formal courses has been a research topic for over 10 years as the ever growing range of digital content and technologies has potentially offered new opportunities for constructing effective learning experiences, primarily through greater sharing and re-use of such content and technologies. While progress in adopting learning design by teaching practitioners has appeared slow so far, the advent of open educational resources (OER) has provided a substantive boost to such sharing activity and a subsequent need for employing learning design in practice. Nevertheless there appears to be a paradox in that learning design assumes a reasonably well known and well defined student audience with presumed… [PDF]

Ryan, Catherine Agnes (2012). I Am a Chameleon in Pearls: How Three Select Female Superintendents Perceive Their Professional Lives. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University. The public school superintendent is the least progressive position in education at integrating women and balancing the scales of equitable representation. Statistical data indicates there are far fewer females than males serving as superintendents. Current statistics show women make up: 1) over 70 percent of all public school educators; 2) nearly half of all principals; and 3) almost 60 percent of all central office administrators. Yet today, female superintendents in our nation total only 20 percent. Despite the perceived oppression of the marginalized, gender study research on women in the superintendent/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) position is limited and built on a narrowly focused foundation. Most of the work on this topic has been done to study the barriers women encounter when attempting to become a public school administrator, rather than to explore their role as a modern day superintendent/CFO. The purpose of this qualitative study will be to build on prior research, which… [Direct]

Howard, Jennifer (2012). Who Gets to See Published Research?. Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. The battle over public access to federally financed research is heating up again. The basic question is this: When taxpayers help pay for scholarly research, should those taxpayers get to see the results in the form of free access to the resulting journal articles? Actions in Washington this month highlight how far from settled the question is, even among publishers. A major trade group, the Association of American Publishers, has thrown its weight behind proposed new legislative limits on requiring public access, while several of its members, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) press, have publicly disagreed with that position. The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy just closed a period of public comment on public access to what it called "peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from federally funded research." The office has not set a timetable for what happens now, but its next moves could also determine whether federal… [Direct]