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Alberta Education, 2007
Young people entering post-secondary institutions or seeking employment generally require senior high school diplomas. There are few jobs available that do not require advanced levels of many kinds of literacy and most employers will consider only those applicants who have completed senior high school, even for entry-level positions. When English…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Speech Communication, Second Languages
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Msengi, Shadrack Gabriel – School Community Journal, 2007
This study investigated the perceptions of African American adult family members, their children, and teachers regarding how family members viewed their roles in assisting their elementary-aged children to become better readers. The study compared each of the subgroups' perceptions respectively regarding: (a) the child's reading level; (b) family…
Descriptors: Reading, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires, African American Students
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Hughes, Jan N.; Cavell, Timothy A.; Meehan, Barbara T.; Zhang, Duan; Collie, Claire – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Drawing on social ecological theory and empirical studies on the role of school context in aggression, the authors argue that school adversity is an important consideration in choosing selective interventions for aggressive children. The moderating role of school adversity on intervention effectiveness is illustrated with data from a randomized…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Grade 3, Educational Environment, Early Intervention
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Emory, Ronya; Caughy, Margaret; Harris, T. Robert; Franzini, Luisa – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
To examine how neighborhood characteristics influence academic achievement, data were drawn from a community survey of low-income neighborhoods and linked with data on performance on standardized testing for third-grade students attending elementary schools in those communities. Results of multilevel logistic regressions indicated that probability…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Standardized Tests
Rutherford, Lindsay Taggart – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
A significant amount of research treats students who speak a language other than English at home, or language-minority students, as a single demographic group and compares them to students who speak only English at home. If important disparities in early school experiences among language-minority students have been overlooked, then policies aimed…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Students, Native Language, Family Environment
Jones, Brett D.; Egley, Robert J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Teachers and principals don't always agree about the effects on education of accountability systems based on high-stakes testing. Mr. Jones and Mr. Egley look at the implications of these differing perceptions and suggest some strategies for creating a climate in which teachers and administrators can move forward on improving student learning.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Skelton, Christine; Read, Barbara – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
This paper adopts a social constructionist position on assessment, specifically that it can never be free of the social conditions in which it is practiced. As such, we explore two aspects of classroom interactions which contribute to and shape the learning environments in which assessment takes place. By drawing on interviews carried out with 51…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Gender Issues
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Elementary School Journal, 2005
Observations of 780 third-grade classrooms described classroom activities, child-teacher interactions, and dimensions of the global classroom environment, which were examined in relation to structural aspects of the classroom and child behavior. 1 child per classroom was targeted for observation in relation to classroom quality and teacher and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 3, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Experience
Bathurst, Effie, G. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1940
That which legislation many times fails to accomplish with adults, organized public education achieves through children. There is no better way, and perhaps no other way, to save the Nation's natural resources from three centuries of ruthless exploitation than by a program of adequate instruction in the Nation's schools. Children cannot begin too…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Natural Resources, Public Education, Elementary Education
Fetissoff, Kira; Kry, Jeannie; Skilling, Aryn – Online Submission, 2008
In the action research project report the teacher researchers targeted 70 elementary students in third- and fifth-grade classrooms that demonstrated a lack of social skills necessary to work cooperatively in a classroom. The purpose of the project was to improve the social skills in children. The three teacher researchers who conducted this action…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Intervention, Observation, Teacher Surveys
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Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1
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Romeo, Lynn – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2008
This article presents a comprehensive model of daily, classroom informal writing assessment that is constantly linked to instruction and the characteristics of proficient writers. Methods for promoting teacher, student, and parent collaboration and their roles in dialoguing, conferencing, and reflection are discussed. Strategies for including…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Informal Assessment
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Blom-Hoffman, Jessica – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
Rates of childhood overweight have reached epidemic proportions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), and schools have been called on to play a role in the prevention of this medical condition. This article describes a multiyear health promotion effort--the Athletes in Service fruit and vegetable (F&V) promotion program--which…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Health Promotion, Kindergarten, Grade 3
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Gest, Scott D.; Welsh, Janet A.; Domitrovich, Celene E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2005
Normative trends and behavioral predictors for three dimensions of social relatedness were examined in a 6-month longitudinal study of 383 students in Grades 3, 4 and 5. Student reports of social relatedness (teacher supportiveness, school supportiveness, loneliness) and liking school indicated that students in each of the grades felt less…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Educational Environment, Student Behavior
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Coker, David – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors of early writing for low-income, urban students. Drawing on research and theory characterizing literacy development as a complex, integrative process, the author analyzed growth in the descriptive writing of students in Grades 1-3. The participants were 309 low-income children enrolled in 16…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Descriptive Writing, Predictor Variables, Emergent Literacy
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