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Garcy, Anthony M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2009
This study investigated the relationship between health conditions suffered over time and student scores on the Stanford Achievement Test 9 in Yuma County, Arizona, public grade schools. The majority of children in Yuma County were of Hispanic origin. The poverty and low income status of most of these children placed them at greater risk for…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Injuries, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests
Mueller, Mary; Maher, Carolyn – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2009
This research was conducted during an after-school partnership between a University and school district in an economically depressed, urban area. The school population consists of 99% African American and Latino students. During the informal after-school math program, a group of 24 6th-grade students from a low socioeconomic community worked…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Urban Areas, Mathematics Instruction, Informal Education
Cuero, Kimberley K.; Worthy, Jo; Rodriguez-Galindo, Alejandra – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
Drawing on data collected during the second year of a longitudinal qualitative study that followed over 10 Latino/a bilingual students, this article foregrounds the experiences of participants during their sixth-grade year. The principle data sources included structured and unstructured interviews with teachers and students, school observations,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, School Choice, Neighborhood Schools, Magnet Schools
Jacob, Brian A.; Lefgren, Lars; Sims, David P. – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
This paper constructs a statistical model of learning that suggests a systematic way of measuring the persistence of treatment effects in education. This method is straightforward to implement, allows for comparisons across educational treatments, and can be related to intuitive benchmarks. We demonstrate the methodology using student-teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Persistence, Academic Achievement, Teacher Competencies
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2012
This "Report Card to the Public" is published in accordance with Alaska Statute 14.03.120 for the school year 2011-2012. Under state law, each school district is required to report information about its plans and performance to its community. This report includes a statewide summary of performance results. It reports the status of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, School Districts, Academic Achievement
Stevens, Tara; Hamman, Doug; Olivarez, Arturo, Jr. – Journal of Latinos & Education, 2007
This study postulated a structural model to investigate the degree of influence that White middle-level teachers who employ mastery goal orientation and academic pressure may have on Hispanic students' sense of school belongingness. Participants were 434 5th and 6th grade students and 21 teachers. Initial proposed model estimates fit the data…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 5, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Maryland State Department of Education, 2009
The Maryland School Assessment (MSA) is administered annually to students in grades 3-8 in reading and math. MSA data are used to meet federal No Child Let Behind (NCLB) requirements. This paper presents how Maryland students' reading and mathematics MSA scores continued to improve in 2009, and the achievement gaps among special services and…
Descriptors: State Standards, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Scores
Garcia, David R. – Educational Policy, 2008
This study captures the impact of school choice decisions by comparing the racial composition of the district schools students exited to the charter schools they entered. Charter school catchment areas are operationalized using a statewide student-level database to track school attendance patterns of individual students over 4 years. Charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Racial Segregation, American Indians, School Choice
Douglas, Jason A.; Katz, Cindi – Afterschool Matters, 2009
Pairing dynamic out-of-school-time (OST) programs with zoos can encourage young people's relationships with and sense of responsibility for animals and the environment. The project presented in this article, Animal Rescuers, gave the authors the opportunity to examine how such a pairing can work. OST programs enable learning in settings that are…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Animals, Conservation (Environment), Consciousness Raising
Graham, Sandra; Bellmore, Amy; Nishina, Adrienne; Juvonen, Jaana – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study examined the mediating role of self-blaming attributions on peer victimization-maladjustment relations in middle school and the moderating role of classroom ethnic diversity. Latino and African American 6th grade participants (N = 1105, 56% female) were recruited from middle schools in which they were either members of the numerical…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Bullying, Early Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment)
Cook, Thomas D.; Hirschfield, Paul J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
In 2000, Cook, Murphy, and Hunt published a multilevel study of Chicago inner-city schools in order to evaluate James Comer's School Development Program (SDP). One main finding was that SDP reduced the rate of change and final posttest mean when delinquency was assessed annually between Grades 5 and 8 using a self-report measure of acting out. The…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Grade 5, Social Justice
Tarlton, Patricia A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2007
Blood pressure screening was conducted on 4,311 (Hispanic n = 763 [17.7%], White n = 2,566 [59.5%], African American n = 610 [14.1%], Asian n = 136 [3.2%], Multiracial n = 231 [5.4%], and Native American n = 5 [0.1%]) 6th-grade students enrolled in Seminole County, Florida, Public Schools from August to December 2005. Prevalence of obesity was 21%…
Descriptors: African American Students, Obesity, Incidence, American Indians
Pacheco, Mariana – Language Arts, 2009
This article examines how Chicana/o and Latina/o youth employed their political-historical knowledge to "talk back" to the xenophobia and political contradictions that underlie the (im)migration "debate." A literacy unit that honed bilingual students' everyday translating created opportunities for students to utilize this political-historical…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Arts, Immigration, Hispanic American Students
Fry, Richard; Gonzales, Felisa – Pew Hispanic Center, 2008
The number of Hispanic students in the nation's public schools nearly doubled from 1990 to 2006, accounting for 60% of the total growth in public school enrollments over that period. Strong growth in Hispanic enrollment is expected to continue for decades, according to population projection by the U.S. Census Bureau. Using data from the 2006…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Community Surveys
Trainin, Guy; Wilson, Kathryn – Online Submission, 2010
Reading First has been implemented in Nebraska since the 2004-5 academic year. In two rounds of funding and participation, schools have transformed the way they trained their teachers, measured student progress, and taught. This transformation is one of the hardest tasks in education and it has taken the considerable dedication of school personnel…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness, Educational Change