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- Increasing vocational options for students with learning handicaps : a practical guide / by Eagle, Eva,1949-(CARDINAL)194785; National Center for Research in Vocational Education (U.S.)(CARDINAL)137960;
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- Subjects: Learning disabled youth; Vocational education;
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- Bully [videorecording] / by Furjanic, Ion,1979-composer (expression); Golden, Jenny,film editor.; Hirsch, Lee,producer,director,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)544827; Lowen, Cynthia,producer.(CARDINAL)604733; Utz, Lindsay,film editor.; Waitt, Cindy,producer.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340087; BeCause Foundation.; Bishop Allen (Musical group),composer.; Einhorn Family Charitable Trust.; Fledgling Fund.; National Center for Learning Disabilities (U.S.); Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention.; Weinstein Company.(CARDINAL)340085; Where We Live Films.;
Music by Ion Furjanic, Bishop Allen ; edited by Lindsay Utz, Jenny Golden ; cinematography by Lee Hirsch.This is a character-driven documentary following five kids and families over the course of a school year. Offering insight into different facets of America's bullying crisis, the stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter, who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. Documentary provides an intimate and often shocking glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals' offices.MPAA rating: PG-13; for "intense thematic material, disturbing content, and some strong language--all involving kids"--Container.DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bullying in schools; Bullying in schools; Bullying; Bullying;
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- Critical links : learning in the arts and student academic and social development / by Deasy, Richard.(CARDINAL)292814; Catterall, James S.(CARDINAL)292813; Hetland, Lois,1953-(CARDINAL)287264; Winner, Ellen.(CARDINAL)292812; Arts Education Partnership (U.S.)(CARDINAL)292811;
Includes bibliographical references.[Part 1.] Dance -- Teaching cognitive skill through dance: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The effects of creative dance instruction on creative and critical thinking of seventh grade female students in Seoul, Korea -- Effects of movement poetry program on creativity of children with behavioral disorders -- Assessment of high school students' creative thinking skills: a comparison of the effects of dance and non-dance classes -- The impact of Whirlwind's Basic Reading Through Dance program on first grade students' basic reading skills: study II -- Art and community: creating knowledge through service in dance -- Motor imagery and athletic expertise: exploring the role of imagery in kinesthetic intelligence -- Informing and reforming dance education research -- [Part 2.] Drama -- The effects of creative drama on the social and oral language skills of children with learning disabilities -- The effectiveness of creative drama as an instructional strategy to enhance the reading comprehension skills of fifth-grade remedial readers -- Role of imaginative play in cognitive development -- A naturalistic study of the relationship between literacy development and dramatic play in five-year-old children -- An exploration into the writing of original scripts by inner-city high school drama students -- A poetic/dramatic approach to facilitate oral communication -- Drama and drawing for narrative writing in primary grades -- Children's story comprehension as a result of storytelling and story dramatization: a study of the child as spectator and as participant -- The impact of Whirlwind's Reading Comprehension Through Drama program on 4th grade students' reading skills and standardized test scores -- The effects of thematic-fantasy play training on the development of children's story comprehension -- Symbolic functioning and children's early writing: relations between kindergarteners' play and isolated word writing fluency -- Identifying causal elements in the thematic-fantasy play paradigm -- The effect of dramatic play on children's generation of cohesive text -- Strengthening verbal skills through the use of classroom drama: a clear link -- "Stand and unfold yourself": a monograph on the Shakespeare & Company research study -- Nadie papers no. 1, drama, language, and learning: reports of the Drama and Language Research Project, Speech and Drama Center, Education Department of Tasmania -- The effects of role playing on written persuasion: an age and channel comparison of fourth and eighth graders -- "You can't be Grandma, you're a boy": events within the thematic fantasy play context that contribute to story comprehension -- The flight of reading: shifts in instruction, orchestration, and attitudes through classroom theatre -- Research on drama and theater in education -- [Part 3]. Multi-Arts -- Using art processes to enhance academic self-regulation -- Learning in and through the arts: the question of transfer -- Involvement in the arts and success in secondary school -- Involvement in the arts and human development: extending an analysis of general associations and introducing the special cases of intensive involvement in music and in theatre arts -- Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE): evaluation summary -- The role of the fine and performing arts in high school dropout prevention -- Arts education secondary schools: effects and effectiveness -- Living the arts through language and learning: a report on community-based youth organizations -- Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout? -- Does studying the arts engender creative thinking?: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The arts and education reform: lessons from a four-year evaluation of the A+ Schools Program, 1995-1999 -- Placing A+ in a national context: a comparison to promising practices for comprehensive school reform -- The A+ Schools Program: school, community, teacher, and student effects -- The Arts In the Basic Curriculum Project: looking at the past and preparing for the future -- Mute those claims: no evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achievement -- Why the arts matter in education, or Just what do children learn when they create an opera? -- SAT scores of students who study the arts: what we can and cannot conclude about the association -- Promising signs of positive effects: lessons from multi-arts studies -- [Part 4.] Music -- Effects of an integrated reading and music instructional approach on fifth-grade students' reading achievement, reading attitude, music achievement, and music attitude -- The effect of early music training on child cognitive development -- Can music be used to teach reading? -- The effects of three years of piano instruction on children's cognitive development -- Enhanced learning of proportional math through music training and spatial-temporal training -- The effects of background music on studying -- Learning to make music enhances spatial reasoning -- Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: evidence for the "Mozart effect" -- An investigation of the effects of music on two emotionally disturbed students' writing motivations and writing skills -- The effects of musical performance, rational emotive therapy and vicarious experience on the self-efficacy and self-esteem of juvenile delinquents and disadvantaged children -- The effect of the incorporation of music learning into the second-language classroom on the mutual reinforcement of music and language -- Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning -- Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: a field experiment -- A meta-analysis on the effects of music as reinforcement for education/therapy objectives -- Music and mathematics: modest support for the oft-claimed relationship -- An overview of research on music and learning -- [Part 5.] Visual arts -- Instruction in visual art: can it help children learn to read? -- The arts, language, and knowing: an experimental study of the potential of the visual arts for assessing academic learning by language minority students -- Investigating the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art's visual thinking curriculum: final report -- Reading is seeing: using visual response to improve the literary reading of reluctant readers -- Reflections on visual arts education studies -- [Part 6.] Overview -- The arts and the transfer of learning.
- Subjects: Arts; Art; Academic achievement.; Cognition.;
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