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An Analysis of Leadership Capacity Development in Alabama 

Ledbetter, Charles (2007-12-15)
Improving schools and holding educators, schools, and school districts accountable for student performance are among the most important issues in education today. Proposals to reform and restructure schools have emphasized ...

Chinese American Adolescents' Self-Perceived Identities and Their Language Behaviors 

Zhu, Linxiang (2010-05-12)
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between self-perceived identities of Chinese American adolescents and their language behaviors. The self-perceived identities were measured by the Chinese ...

Comparing Educational Beliefs of Chinese and American Graduate Students 

Zhao, Fangxia (2007-05-15)
In recent years an increasing number of Chinese international students have selected to come to the United States to pursue their academic studies. They have become one of the largest international student bodies at ...

Effects of Modified Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction on African American Boys’ Oral Reading Fluency and Attitudes toward Reading 

Gaston-Thornton, Parichart (2008-08-15)
Reading achievement among boys has been a subject of interest in educational research for several years. Not until the 1990s did the issue of educating boys become nationally and internationally acknowledged as an existing ...

The Effects of Teaching Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension Strategies on the Writing of Developmental English Students in a Community College 

McLendon, Nancy (2008-05-15)
The setting for this study was a community college in southeast Alabama, and the purpose was to determine whether the teaching of reading comprehension and critical thinking strategies along with English grammar and writing ...

Elementary Education Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward Reading 

Warmack, Wanda (2007-05-15)
This study investigated the self-reported reading attitudes of pre-service teachers enrolled in a children’s literature course at the university level. The Mikulecky Behavioral Reading Attitude Measure (MBRAM) was administered ...

It’s in Black and White: Preservice Teachers’ Perceived Abilities to Facilitate Literary Conversations about African-American Picture Books 

Hunter, Cheron (2010-07-29)
The purpose of this study was to examine how preservice teachers perceive their abilities use African-American picture books to facilitate literary conversations. Two preservice teachers, one Black and one White, examined ...