HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). ... In viewing these families as lacking, instruction in schools often continues to overemphasise the language, culture and values of the mainstream population as a way to resist the shifting demographics. ... Thus, these opposing differences between population and pedagogy often bring about tension and confusion for students, parents, teachers and s...

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As more of Earth's population gains access to the online world, MOOCs and other forms of online education are revolutionizing the way students obtain an education. ... For example, the first advancement in online education was made by the Electronic University Network in 1992, who provided full degree program through America Online (AOL) by collaborating with colleges and universities ("Electronic University Network"). ... Internet access has exponentially increased in the last twenty years and, as a result, over a third of the Earth's population now has access to MOOCs. ...

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Culture is defined as the shared perceptions, experiences, beliefs, knowledge, values, norms, and social forms of a group of people.1 At the time when African Americans entered the public school system it was the intent to civilize the population. ... As a result, sometimes black kids feel like, "I am going to make it miserable 5 Philip Bigler and Karen Lockard, Failing Grades (Arlington: Vandamere Press, 1992) 116. ...

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