Laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at a Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Holden at Dover, on Monday the Twenty-Fourth, and Ended on Friday the Twenty-Eighth Day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen....
Laws of the State of Delaware, Passed at a Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and Held at Dover, on Tuesday, January 3rd, A. D. 1911. Volume XXVI.
21st Century Learning Frameworks, Education Reform, Missions Of Public Education
This study examined the relationship between the missions of public education in the United States and selected 21st century reform frameworks published by think tank organizations. This was conducted through the process of an integrative review.
This executive position paper proposes recommendations for the development of editing workshops and editing training for adjunct faculty of Wilmington University. An editing workshop was developed and taught to two groups of adjunct instructors at...
Schools are continuously searching for solutions to solve truancy, academic, behavioral, safety, and climate issues. One of the latest trends in education is requiring students to adhere to dress codes as a solution to these issues. Dress codes...
This dissertation as an executive position paper (EPP) will provide a thorough literature review and the most current and reliable data on Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) prevalence, show the high...
adolescent health, girls on the run, health promotion, physical activity, running, youth development program
The purpose of this study was to identify the impact the Girls on the Run (GOTR) program had on the New Castle County, Delaware, third, fourth, and fifth grade girls who participated in the spring 2011 season. Specifically, this study examined...
Educational Policy, Public School Teachers, Social Media
Social Media networking is the next frontier in educational policy. A plethora of issues has arisen in regard to social media practices on the part of educators in public school systems. There is a lack of regulation for use of social media across...
Academic Achievement, Elementary School, English Language Learners, Instruction, Limited English Proficient Students, Teacher Professional Development
America's public schools are required to provide equal access to an education for all students. This study, in the form of an executive position paper, focused on how a large suburban school district having a small but diverse English language...
National Board Certification, Professional Development, Reflection
This study examined the types of teacher reflections and the changes in reflective levels as 15 candidates for National Board Certification worked through the portfolio process. This study also examined how the portfolio requirements and mentoring...
Sibling relational breakdown continually afflicts African American families. The effects of social inequality and its adverse impact continue to upset family adjustment in the lives of African Americans as evidenced by social conditions such as...
Charter schools performance, Competitive effect, Pennsylvania System of School Assessment results, School effectiveness, Traditional public school performance
This study is relevant to parents, private organizations, and the educational
system interested in discovering whether charter school students perform better
academically than traditional public elementary school students. The Pennsylvania
System...
This executive position paper proposes an innovative Career and Technical Pathway for secondary education. The Secondary Teacher Education Pathway (STEP) is a teacher education pathway for high school students who are interested in teaching as a...
career and technical, hispanic, k-12, undocumented
This executive position paper proposes a legal process by which undocumented students enrolled in career and technical schools can obtain cooperative employment and pursue post-secondary opportunities. The recommended process is based on the...
There are many advantages supporting the use of computers as an alternate mode of delivery for high stakes testing: cost savings, increased test security, flexibility in test administrations, innovations in items, and reduced scoring time. The...
Accelerated Reader, Maryland School Assessment, MSA, Scholastic Reading Inventory, SRI, Standardized Test for Assessment of Reading
During the 2009-2010 school year, a middle school, in the northern portion of Maryland, failed to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), as measured by the Maryland School Assessment for Reading (MSA-R). As this was the third consecutive year the...
The purpose of this mixed method quasi-experimental nonequivalent comparison group study was to analyze the effects of an Extended Learning Opportunity (ELO) in mathematics and reading for targeted at-risk middle school students in grades six...
community college, knowledge transfer, leadership skills, succession planning
Delaware Technical Community College employees possess critical knowledge and expertise that could be lost should they leave College employment. This paper investigates best practices in knowledge transfer and high-level staff and administrator...
Business education, Critial thinking skills, Critical thinking assessment, Graduate Business Education, Masters in Business Administration, MBA
The need for graduate business education, and in particular Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs, to foster the development of the critical thinking skills of its graduates has increased. Employers of MBA graduates desire sound...
