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Rabia Telli – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation consists of two chapters that examine the impact of educational and positive youth development programs on students' academic and behavioral outcomes. In the first chapter, I evaluate the effect of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program, a school meal provision allowing schools meeting the eligibility requirements to…
Descriptors: Economics, Youth Programs, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
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Farris, Alisha R.; Mann, Georgianna; Parks, Justin; Arrowood, John; Roy, Manan; Misyak, Sarah – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Schools are a promising site for influencing the dietary intake of children and adolescents. The US Department of Agriculture recently released flexibilities to requirements for whole-grains, sodium, and low-fat milk in schools who demonstrated difficulty meeting nutrition standards for school meal programs. The support of School…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Dietetics, Hunger, Children
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Ciren, Baizhen; Aadland, Eli Kristin; Hu, Aihua; Wergedahl, Hege – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
This article presents a case study on changing food practices from traditional cold sandwich meals to hot meals in a Norwegian kindergarten. Data were sourced from interviews, complemented by non-participatory video observation and observational notes. Building on Fullan's model for understanding a change process, this paper presents the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Food, Change Strategies
James R. Izzo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Curriculum-based measurements (CBM) are used in schools to screen students for academic difficulties. Oral reading fluency curriculum-based measures (CBM-R) are the most popular, yet several studies have identified predictive bias in CBM-Rs in relation to key variables (e.g., race, sex). Despite a massive increase in the use of these measures as…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bias, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Tests
Kaitlyn E. Elgart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I use modern microeconomic methods to examine the impact of K-12 education policy interventions on student outcomes. In the first chapter I explore how increased funding for school policing and sentiment surrounding school policing can have downstream effects on student discipline, and how these effects vary by student and…
Descriptors: Economics, Economic Factors, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
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Ibrahim Kasujja; Hugo Melgar-Quinonez; Joweria Nambooze – SAGE Open, 2023
Background: School feeding programs' evaluation requires the measurement of food insecurity, a more objective indicator, within school in low-income countries. The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) uses subjective indicators to report school feeding coverage rates across many countries that participate in the global survey of school meal…
Descriptors: Hunger, Food, Program Effectiveness, Psychometrics
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Michah W. Rothbart; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Emily Gutierrez – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 allows school districts to provide free meals to all students if over 40 percent of them are directly certified as free-meal eligible. While emerging evidence documents positive effects on student behavior and academics, critics worry that CEP has unintended…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Federal Legislation, Lunch Programs
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Veliz, Philip; Zdroik, Jennifer – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: In order to better understand some of the barriers to athletic opportunities for girls, we examined school-level characteristics to assess how they are associated with both the provision and participation in athletic opportunities for girls across US public high schools. Methods: Cross-sectional data for this study comes from the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Gender Differences, Athletics
Blagg, Kristin; Lafortune, Julien; Monarrez, Tomás – Urban Institute, 2022
Understanding how school districts allocate resources across students and schools is important for designing efficacious and equitable school finance policies. Newly released school-level spending data allow for new insights about the level of spending a student experiences at her school and how well spending corresponds with student…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, School Demography
Lindsay Ellis Lee; Anne N. Rinn; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is the most widely used norm-referenced creativity test used in gifted identification. Although commonly used for identifying talent, little is known about how creativity tests, like the TTCT-Figural, contribute to the probability of being identified as gifted especially with underrepresented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Identification, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking
Deirdre Marie Rood – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research suggests teacher cultural competency (TCC) is one of the keys to combating current systemic inequities in our educational landscape especially when considering the influences of teacher experience, socioeconomic factors (measured through the percentage of students receiving free lunch), and the composition of student demographics,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English Language Learners, Socioeconomic Status, Teaching Experience
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Jang, Sung Tae – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
This study examined how social constructs of race or ethnicity, sexuality, and socioeconomic status (SES) are multiplicatively associated with high school students' schooling experiences and aspirations. Using a critical quantitative intersectionality framework to analyse data from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey, this study found that the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Minority Group Students, Race, Ethnicity
School District of Palm Beach County, 2024
On January 22, 2023, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released high school graduation rates for the State of Florida and the District. The FY23 Federal High School Graduation Rate includes standard diplomas but excludes special diplomas and General Education Diplomas (GEDs). Students with Disabilities (SWD) on Access Points curriculum…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation Rate, School Districts, Trend Analysis
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Williams, Rita; Hickman, Greg; Leggett, Carmen; Ricketts, Diane; Bryant, Misty; Gwaltney, Kesia – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2022
Poverty has an enormous impact on children and their success in school. Children with low socioeconomic status often perform poorly in reading. Poor reading skills often lead to truancy, low rates of high school graduation, low-paying jobs, and cycles of illiteracy in generations of families. Secondary data was collected from the Tennessee…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Low Income Students, Lunch Programs
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Easterbrook, Matthew J.; Nieuwenhuis, Marlon; Fox, Kerry J.; Harris, Peter R.; Banerjee, Robin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: School students who are eligible for reduced or free school meals (FSM) -- an indicator of economic disadvantage -- have lower academic attainment than their peers. Aims: We investigated whether identity compatibility -- the perceived compatibility between one's social identities and the stereotype of a high-achieving student --…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
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