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Francine Falk-Ross; Kathleen A. Gormley; Peter McDermott – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2024
There exist passionate debates about the best way to teach children to read. Since the Bush administration, school districts receiving federal funds have been required to have research evidence justifying their methods of teaching reading, and in recent years the need for evidence-based practices have intensified with the "Science of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Programs, Selection Criteria, Educational Trends
Alvaro Hofflinger; Cristóbal Villalobos; Loreto Cárdenas; Ernesto Treviño – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
A common criticisms of school choice programs is that, instead of improving student achievement, they would increase school segregation. Parents may use different criteria to choose a school, such as proximity, school quality, or the school's ethnic/racial composition. As a result, the system would be segregated based on the parent's preferences.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, School Choice, Ethnic Groups
Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn; Jennings, Jennifer L. – Educational Policy, 2020
Drawing on interviews with 88 middle school counselors tasked with implementing New York City's high school choice policy, we show that counselors largely question the policy's legitimacy and the equity of the high school assignments it produces. By highlighting issues of transparency and procedural fairness that threaten counselors' acceptance of…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Attitudes, High Schools, School Choice
Fortuin, Janna; van Geel, Mitch; Vedder, Paul – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The present study was conducted to analyze whether in-class friends influence each other's grades, and whether adolescents tend to select friends that are similar to them in terms of academic achievement. During 1 academic year, 542 eighth-grade students (M age = 13.3 years) reported on 3 different occasions on their in-class friendship networks.…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Socialization
Lougee, Aimee; Baenen, Nancy – Wake County Public School System, 2008
This evaluation examined the implementation and effectiveness of the AVID program in middle schools throughout the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS). Survey results and school visits revealed considerable inconsistencies in implementation across schools. Specifically, selection criteria were not consistently understood and applied, all…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Elective Courses, Administrator Attitudes, Algebra