Low-Income Immigrant Pupils Learning Vocabulary Through Digital Picture Storybooks by Marian Verhallen and Adriana Bus from Leiden University examined whether digital picture storybooks could help low-income children learn the proper amount of vocabulary prior to beginning school, lessening the chances of them developing reading difficulties. Since that often happens to children who start school with […]
The study is seeking to answer four questions relating to finding out whether: children invest more mental effort in reading than watching television, books being perceived to have made higher demands than television, children thinking that are more capable of learning from television than from books, and looking at television and how the perceived self-efficacy […]
Inside the College Gates speaks on the United States college system and how wealth is directly associated to higher education. This chapter speaks on two distinct perspectives in educators approach to teaching. The perspective of education as a possession relates knowledge and capability to the degree of education. This limited view of education reproduces inequalities […]
People learn differently at different life stages. Child learners typically want their teachers to set the agenda for them; adult learners want to set their own. The flip side, of course, is that child learners at best take responsibility for their own learning, while adult learners take responsibility for the learning of others. Pedagogy is the […]
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I dug deeper into the statistics of the Hawaiian public school education to gather more information about what students were achieving more than others and to possibly gather some hypothesis. I was able to go the the DOE (Department of Education) website of the state of Hawaii which has public records of the achievement levels […]
Campbell, Howard. 2014 “Narco-Propaganda in the Mexican ‘Drug War.’” Latin American Perspective 41 (195): 60-77. doi: 10.1177/0094582X12443519. Violence and organized crimes produced by narcotic selling cartels have ravaged Mexico for 20 years. The drug business in Mexico boomed after filling in for the power vacuum left behind after the U.S. shut down the Colombian organizations. […]
I have been going through my articles and books that I found my initial information to see which information will help in answering my research question. I have found an interesting point of view from the book, Teaching for the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community. As my focus has shifted slightly from studying […]
It has been quite difficult to find good research articles that have to do specifically with my research topic which is the how building a better classroom community can better benefit the self-esteem and comfort of students in school which, in extension, will result in better academic grades. Because I wasn’t finding anything that I […]
While I was unable to find a printed research article in the Armacost Library regarding the relationship between mental illness and socioeconomic status, which is my research topic, I did find a few research articles on education strategies that can increase the future success rate of children from low income families to match that of […]