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Direct linkFrost, Mandy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative ex post facto study investigated the effects of career academies on academic achievement and college readiness. A total of 1,206 12th-grade participants (196 career academy and 1,010 nonacademy students) were used in this study. These participants came from six high schools located in one large urban school district. Each of the…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Academic Achievement, College Readiness, Statistical Analysis
Welch, Amy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of poverty on the achievement of African American male high school students attending the same large Midwest urban school district. Cumulative grade point average (GPA) at the tenth grade level were compared to the level of poverty provided through census data of African American male tenth…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, High School Students, Poverty
Darling, Emily Jean Skelton – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An understanding of Algebra I and the role that this foundational course plays as an entry to the college preparatory pathway in secondary education and its influence on mathematical achievement is an integral component for the education of American youth in the global world of science and technology. Achievements in high school curricula are…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Prerequisites
