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Tucker, Stanley – Pastoral Care in Education, 2013
How to best support pupils who are considered to be in danger of temporary or permanent exclusion from secondary school is an issue that is currently exercising policy makers, school managers and teachers in the UK. Using primary research data gained from interviews with secondary pupils, school managers and behaviour support staff in a group of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews
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Stone, Alison; Walter, Maggie; Peacock, Huw – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
A quality education is a basic societal right. Yet for many Aboriginal students that right is not yet a reality. This paper focuses on the situation of Aboriginal/palawa school students in Tasmania and employs a quantitative methodology to examine the comparative educational achievements of Aboriginal school students. State level Grade 3, 5, 7 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Grade 3
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Cohen, Aviv – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The concentration of this study was the documentation and analysis of ways in which competing conceptions of citizenship play out in actual classroom settings. Examining three cases in the context of the Israeli education system, its findings show that civics teachers' views and beliefs influenced ways in which they interpreted the curriculum…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
West Virginia Department of Education, 2018
This collection of fact sheets includes: (1) Alcohol and Drug Use; (2) Bullying and Suicidal Behaviors; (3) Dietary Behaviors; (4) Disease Prevention and Health Care Access; (5) Injury Risk and Violence; (6) Physical Inactivity; (7) Sexual Behaviors; (8) Tobacco Use; and (9) Weight Management. [For "[West Virginia Youth Risk Behavior/School…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Bullying, Suicide
Hirschl, Noah; Grodsky, Eric – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2020
This report presents a snapshot of selected features of the condition of education in Wisconsin in 2019. With support from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, and in collaboration with colleagues at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the authors set out to measure practices in PK-12 education…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Principals
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McLaughlin, Alicia – School Social Work Journal, 2014
Even as we mark the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, evidence indicates that pregnant and parenting high school students continue to struggle with stigmatization and discrimination within the public school system. To remind school social work practitioners and other concerned administrators of the provisions of this historic legislation, this…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Gender Discrimination, Sex Fairness
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Davison, Colleen M.; Newton, Lisa; Brown, Robert S.; Freeman, John; Ufholz, Lee-Anne; Smith, J. David – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012
School start times for adolescents are increasingly being scrutinized within school communities. Recently, school officials have begun varying start times as a means to improve students' productivity, achievement, and health and well-being. This informal experimentation has proceeded in the absence of clear, detailed and well-substantiated…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Schedules, Well Being, Guidelines
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2017
Each edition of the IDRA Newsletter strives to provide many different perspectives on the issues in education topics discussed and to define its significance in the state and national dialogue. This issue focuses on Push Outs -- Children of Color and includes: (1) Partnerships, Not Push Outs--Collaboration is Critical to Dealing with Disparities…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention, School Policy
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
This brief describes key features of the high school alcohol and drug policies in the 100 largest school districts in the United States. The written policies of at least 80% of these districts include parent conferences, referral to law enforcement, principal-determined suspensions, or referral for expulsion hearings (or some combination of these)…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Schools, School Policy, Discipline Policy
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Werts, Amanda B.; Brewer, Curtis A.; Mathews, Sarah A. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on the many dimensions of the principal's positionality by using a unique research approach to link the experiences of the policy implementing principal to embodiment. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers employed a form of critical policy analysis that utilized…
Descriptors: Principals, Policy Analysis, School Policy, Educational Administration
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Gregory, Anne; Clawson, Kathleen; Davis, Alycia; Gerewitz, Jennifer – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2016
Restorative approaches to school discipline are increasingly being implemented throughout the United States in an attempt to reduce reliance on suspension and eradicate the racial discipline gap. Yet, little is known about the experience of students in classrooms utilizing restorative practices (RP). This study draws on student surveys (N = 412)…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Discipline, Referral, Teacher Student Relationship
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Schoener, Herbert Joseph, III; McKenzie, Kathryn Bell – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2016
Although much of the current educational research literature on achievement gaps has focused on core curricular areas in public schools, few have focused on racially identifiable gaps in non-core areas such as high school foreign languages. These achievement, and thus advancement, gaps often result in the under-representation of students of color…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Second Language Instruction, Equal Education
Gottfried, Michael A., Ed.; Conchas, Gilberto Q., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to "first, do no harm." But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do not always live up to this ideal, especially policies intended to help our most vulnerable students. "When School Policies Backfire" draws our attention to education policies…
Descriptors: School Policy, Educational Policy, Disadvantaged Youth, Case Studies
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Stone-Johnson, Corrie – American Secondary Education, 2015
Enacting college and career readiness policy in secondary schools requires systemic involvement of all school professionals, but identifying the specific roles that should be played by teachers and counselors remains a challenge. The study reported in this article used qualitative interviews with counselors and teachers to describe this challenge…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, School Counseling, School Counselors, School Policy
Lin, Ching-Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of financial aid policies on student persistence between the first and second year at a private four-year postsecondary institution in Taiwan. A two-phase sequential research design was employed with priority was given to the quantitative data--structural equation modeling (SEM). While the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, College Students
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