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Educational brokerage and knowledge mobilization in the United States: Who, what, why, how?
Although the central role of educational intermediaries that can connect research and practice is increasingly appreciated, our present understanding of their motivations, products, and processes is inadequate. In response, ... -
Joining worlds: Knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed practice
In this volume’s opening chapter, Joining Worlds: Knowledge Mobilization and Evidence-Informed Practice, chapter authors and book editors Joel Malin and Chris Brown provide relevant background and describe the purpose of ... -
Data archive for "Structure–property effects in the generation of transient aqueous benzoic acid anhydrides by carbodiimide fuels"
The design of dissipative systems, which operate out-of-equilibrium by consuming chemical fuels, is challenging. As yet, there are a few examples of privileged fuel chemistries that can be broadly applied in abiotic systems ... -
Reclaiming Community
The call for community can be heard throughout public and educational discourses; parallel calls for respecting difference are part of the discursive landscape as well. The terms have now become simplified and dichotomized. ... -
Telling new stories about school
Contemporary societies frame education through cultural narratives about schooling’s purposes and practices. Societal stories about school are not just reflective of our current views and values, but shape our political ... -
Virtual Charter Schools and the Democratic Aims of Education
Virtual schooling is expanding as an alternative to traditional public schooling in the early twenty-first century. This paper analyzes virtual schooling with regards to the democratic associational aims of public schooling ... -
A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings ... -
Gamification in SE Courses
The sources and styles of student motivation have changed as the use of computing technology has become more ubiquitous. Instructors observations often lead to the conclusion that students’ attention span has shorten. ... -
Perceptual identification of nonlinear postural characteristics using Sort/Merge Methodology.
Data, Stimuli, Analysis Details, and conference presentation for Perceptual identification of nonlinear postural characteristics using Sort/Merge Methodology. This project sought to determine characteristics of postural ... -
Citizenship in our Time: Community Service, Town Meeting, Protest March, or Drag Show
How is citizenship properly enacted in the contemporary era? How are contemporary discourses of citizenship constructing and reconstructing our meanings of the terms of citizenship? To answer these questions, I have recently ... -
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Support College and Career Readiness in an Urban School District
Background: School reforms requiring collaborations spanning multiple sectors are increasing in prevalence, but extant research has primarily focused only upon cross-sector partnerships involving education and social ... -
Data archive for "Macrocycles of higher ortho-phenylenes: assembly and folding"
Higher-order structure in abiotic foldamer systems represents an important but largely unrealized goal. As one approach to this challenge, covalent assembly can be used to assemble macrocycles with foldamer subunits in ... -
The school principal as democratic leader: A critique of the Wallace Foundation’s vision of the principalship
What is the role of the public school principal in the contemporary era? As conceived by many in educational policy-making and research today, the duty of the US school leader is to ensure that the district is, above all ... -
Biological Data QAQC Module Instructions
This document provides detailed instructions on using the Biological Data QAQC Module app, which was created through R Shiny. This app facilitates quality assurance and quality control of large, scientific data sets. A ... -
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of ... -
Sampling Protocols (1988-1993) of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program
Details on the methods and protocols by which samples were collected for the 5 years (1989-1993) of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program in Lakes Giles, Lacawac, and Waynewood -
Fishery Survey on the Three "Core" Lakes of the Pocono Comparative Lakes Program Lakes: Giles, Lacawac, and Waynewood
Summary of the fish populations of Lakes Giles, Lacawac, and Waynewood, 1990, as assessed using gill and trap nets