In an effort to combine pre-service teachers' self-reflection with their field experiences to enhance their cultural competency, this study adopted Schmidt's ABC's (Autob[...]

As summer turns into fall, oak trees share their bounty acorns. While the number varies with the age, size, species, and weather, a single tree can have as many as 15,000[...]

This article defines the process of adaptive teaching in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We assert that teachers who possess a well-developed STEM peda[...]

This study examined a group of first- and second-grade teachers at a charter school focused on experiential learning, social justice education, and project-based learning[...]

College campuses in the southeast United States are striving to understand and serve their newly arriving Latino students to promote adjustment and academic success. The [...]

In this chapter, readers learn about advocacy-based research, a form of participatory action research and community-engaged research. Inclusion, reciprocity, asset-based [...]

This dissertation is a single qualitative case study of how a Chinese heritage history professor taught the Chinese Cultural Revolution as difficult history, the deep att[...]

The purpose of this study was to examine structural, academic, and personal factors affecting the transition of African American males to high school by giving voice to t[...]

This instrumental case study examined the perceptions of African-American current and former secondary teacher education majors about the impact of sociocultural capital [...]

This article includes an activity that you can do in your classroom today to reinforce the concept of and problems involved with introduced, nonnative or alien species. F[...]

This study examines the content and purposes of four different types of electronic exchanges among a cohort of preservice elementary education majors across three semeste[...]

This article describes a research study on the appropriateness for social studies classrooms of CNN Student News, a free online news program specifically aimed at middle [...]

Framed by theories of youth, culture, identity studies, and literacy identity formation, this article examines how youth articulate themselves as writers. Using interview[...]

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the aspects of Lumbee Indian community that supports the algebraic achievement of high-achieving Lumbee Indi[...]

When evaluating equity, researchers often look at the "achievement gap." Privileging knowledge and skills as primary outcomes of science education misses other, more subt[...]

Institutions of higher education are experiencing an influx of students in distress. It is imperative that all members of campus are involved in prevention and safety eff[...]

Atoms are lonely hearts that are constantly in search of partners to bring stability to their lives—at Least that's the premise of our Atomic Dating Game, a chemistry act[...]

This qualitative study used photovoice to explore how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or queer (LGBQ) college students understand and experience belonging at a regional, publ[...]

The study of the identity processes of women of color in science-based fields helps us (a) find ways to support similar women, and (b) study the dynamics of inequity, wit[...]

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the ways in which four elementary preservice teachers came to understand culturally responsive teaching and began aut[...]

A different pattern of autonomy development than that described by Chickering (1969) and Chickering and Reisser (1993) was found among 325 traditional-age female undergra[...]

The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of a balanced, accelerated, and responsive literacy program on the reading growth of elementary school struggling [...]

A comprehensive description of barriers to college access for Latino/a adolescents is an important step toward improving educational outcomes. However, relevant scholarsh[...]

The authors describe a unit on bats developed for kindergartners, which uses models of bats to teach about their physiology, diet, and habitat. The use of online field gu[...]

Students' declining science interest in middle school is often attributed to psychological factors like shifts of motivational values, decrease in self-efficacy, or doubt[...]