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African American Parental Involvement (open access)

African American Parental Involvement

This paper discusses a research project on the relationship between African American parent volunteer involvement and student reading scores.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Brookshire, Nikki & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can Regular and Special Education be Integrated into One System? Political Culture Theory May Have the Answer (open access)

Can Regular and Special Education be Integrated into One System? Political Culture Theory May Have the Answer

This paper examines proposals to integrate regular and special education.
Date: October 1993
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals (open access)

Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals

This article describes implications for school leadership and the need for preservice and continuing professional development concerning all aspects of response to intervention (RTI).
Date: March 2014
Creator: Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L. & Yates, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders (open access)

Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

This article explores the authors' experience using an ethical framework to teach a course on disability law to graduate level education students.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L. & Cole, Heather A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Qualification and the Achievement Gap in Early Primary Grades (open access)

Teacher Qualification and the Achievement Gap in Early Primary Grades

This article examines the relationship of the qualification requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act to the goal of reducing the academic achievement gap.
Date: August 10, 2009
Creator: Easton-Brooks, Donald & Davis, Alan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District (open access)

(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
America 2000 and Special Education: Can the Two Be Merged? (open access)

America 2000 and Special Education: Can the Two Be Merged?

This paper uses systems theory and force field analysis to evaluate the potential for combining special education with America 2000 national educational strategy and goals.
Date: April 9, 1993
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context (open access)

Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context

This article highlights one Latina school leader in the National Latina/o Leadership Study and her experiences developing a professional and racial identity within urban school contexts.
Date: February 25, 2016
Creator: Hernandez, Frank & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves (open access)

Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

This article describes a duoethnography of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives.
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: Guerra, Patricia L. & Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism (open access)

“Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism

This article reports findings from a qualitative case study of an Islamic school in the United States that counters religious extremism through the promotion and development of an American Muslim identity in its students, an ideology that advances the idea that an individual can be wholly American and wholly Muslim without any incongruity.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brooks, Melanie C. & Ezzani, Miriam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Idiot's Guide or A People's History: Teaching U.S. History in Mexico (open access)

Idiot's Guide or A People's History: Teaching U.S. History in Mexico

This article discusses how textbooks can influence the classroom as a political space, using the example of the "Consorcio Clavijero" program, which offers Mexican professionals the opportunity to enter bilingual contexts in the U.S. as interns and classroom teachers.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Heiman, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Pedagogy: Translation for Education that is Multicultural (open access)

Critical Pedagogy: Translation for Education that is Multicultural

Article on a study examining the translation of multicultural learning activities in a college classroom into critical pedagogy in the public school classrooms.
Date: 2001
Creator: Moss, Glenda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race (open access)

Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race

Article describes study which examines the intersectionality between professional identities and race/ethnicity among Latina/o school leaders.
Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth; Hernandez, Frank; Valle, Fernando & Almager, Irma
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas (open access)

Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

This article explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil.
Date: March 2, 2011
Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Auxiliadora Lima Dias da Silva, Maria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision (open access)

Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision

This article focuses on the importance of contextualizing school policies by illuminating how one school rule, In-School-Suspension (ISS) disengages students from the learning process.
Date: 2009
Creator: Quijada, Patricia D. & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Missing Link for the Administration of Special Education: The Ethic of Care (open access)

The Missing Link for the Administration of Special Education: The Ethic of Care

This paper discusses the application of a care orientation to special education service delivery and administrative practice.
Date: October 30, 1993
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Make a Move: Creating a Culturally Aware Community of Masters and Scholars (open access)

Make a Move: Creating a Culturally Aware Community of Masters and Scholars

This paper explores the experience of 30 university students in their final year of the teacher education program.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Montejano, Sara N. & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in an Exploration of the Politics of Language (open access)

Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in an Exploration of the Politics of Language

This article discusses engaging pre-service teachers in an exploration of the politics of language.
Date: 2011
Creator: Lee, Cheu-jey George; Moss, Glenda & Coughlin, Elaine B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities (open access)

Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities

This article examines relationships among consumer demographic variables, services, and employment outcomes for 15-18 year old youth with learning disabilities using the 2012 Rehabilitation Services Administration database.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Ji, Eun; Schaller, James; Pazey, Barbara L. & Glynn, Kate
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators (open access)

Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carano, Kenneth T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort (open access)

Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort

This article uses nationally representative data from the Early Chlidhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort used to examine child care experiences with repreated cross-sectional analysis at 9, 24, and 52 months for dual language learner and non-dual language learner children.
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: Espinosa, Linda M.; LaForett, Doré R.; Burchinal, Margaret; Burchinal, Margaret; Winsler, Adam; Tien, Hsiao-Chuan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amish Teacher Dialogues with Teacher Educators: Research, Culture, and Voices of Critique (open access)

Amish Teacher Dialogues with Teacher Educators: Research, Culture, and Voices of Critique

Article discussing a collaborative project to examine literature and research on the Amish culture.
Date: September 2005
Creator: Zehr, Henry; Moss, Glenda & Nichols, Joe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus (open access)

“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus

This article examines the quality of public schooling in primarily low socio-economic status (SES) areas of El Paso, Texas and reflects on the dismal realities established by the hegemonic social order.
Date: March 12, 2015
Creator: Rossatto, Cesar A.; Rivas, Cecilia E.; Heiman, Daniel & Esparza, Juanita
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library