Recently added articles from Kappa Delta Pi Record:
Transforming Global Civics: The Need for Human Rights Education
Oct 01, 2009; ... When students explore the atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust, do they compare and contrast its causes and results to the Armenian, Rwandan, and Sudanese genocides? As learners dissect and analyze the significance of inalienable rights espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the American ...
Racism Is Alive and Well in America
Oct 01, 2009; ... If the recent elections of a Black man to the presidency and a Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court of the United States, or news that Ku Klux Klan membership is down from its estimated high of 6 million in 1 924 to about 8,000 in 2008 (Wikipedia 2009) makes you think racism is gone from America, ...
What Does Research Say about Effective Practices for ENGLISH LEARNERS?
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction and Part I: Oral Language Proficiency Establishing oral communication and developing levels of oral language proficiency are critical to ELL students' learning and achievement. English Language Learners (ELLs) - students whose second language is English and who are ...
Laureates Speak
Oct 01, 2009; ... In this special section of the Record, Kappa Delta Pi Laureates explore "Research in the Real World"- the topic of their panel at KDP's upcoming Convocation. This collection of essays in the Kappa Delta Pi Record is intended to provide some background and set the stage for the Laureate ...
Are Teachers Responsible for Low Achievement by Poor Students?
Oct 01, 2009; ... "The problems of achievement among America's poor are much more likely to be located outside the school than in it." Backers of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law based their support on the belief that teachers and administrators primarily were responsible for low levels of achievement ...