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Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn; Roda, Allison – Educational Policy, 2020
Multiple studies have shown the potential for school choice policies to benefit middle-class families, often to the detriment of lower income students in the same district. Yet, there is limited research examining the role of policies in promoting inequality by encouraging exclusionary behaviors. In this article, we utilize the concept of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Middle Class, Parents, Educational Policy
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Salisbury, Jason – American Journal of Education, 2020
This qualitative case study employing a critical race theory methodology uses Derrick Bell's conceptualization of racial fortuity to examine the ways leaders at Carver High School responded to accountability pressures related to supporting students of color. Findings highlight how school leaders' espoused racially just improvement initiatives and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias, High School Students
Kilag, Osias Kit T.; Dejino, Jocelyn A.; Arcillo, Mervin T.; Borong, Melona L.; Manligoy, Ranie G.; Combista, Lelia I. – Online Submission, 2023
This study aims to explore the determinants of senior high school (SHS) track preference among grade 10 students in the Philippines using a mixed-method approach. A total of 179 respondents from two private and four public schools in the division of Toledo City were selected through stratified random sampling. The study utilized an online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Private Schools
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Marisol J. C. Kevelson; Catherine M. Millett; Carly Slutzky; Stephanie R. Saunders – ETS Research Report Series, 2023
This study explores the extent to which student, family, peer, and school factors predict (a) whether students take "Advanced Placement®" ("AP®") courses, International Baccalaureate (IB) courses, and dual enrollment courses and (b) in models limited to course takers, how many courses they completed. Our findings, based on a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Dual Enrollment, College Preparation, High School Students
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Doria Daniels – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The 2000s saw a change in South Africa's Department of Correctional Services' theorising about adult education's potential to shift incarcerated men's thinking about their future in a proactive way. The plan was to advance active citizenship in the incarcerated. As such, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) introduced holistic, integrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
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Louie, Dustin William; Gereluk, Dianne – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2021
A continued gap exists in student achievement between Indigenous and non- Indigenous students in the British Columbia school system. This article analyzes the balance of success and failure of the Accountability Framework, a provincial program designed to increase graduation rates in the province. In order to understand the successes and failures…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged, Graduation Rate, Canada Natives
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Price, Heather E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
The rise in college preparatory coursework across American high schools appears not to affect college enrollment and graduation rates. This study uses the Civil Rights Data Collection to evaluate three stages along the college preparatory pipeline: access to, enrollment in, and mastery of Advanced Placement® and International Baccalaureate®…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Access to Education, Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs
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Kissi, Philip Siaw; Opoku, Daniel; Armah, Samuel Ebenezer – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education is considered as a subject not a program in Ghanaian Senior High Schools (SHS) curriculum. However, the performance of students offering ICT related programs in Higher Education is abysmal. Therefore, this study investigated the teachers concerns about making ICT as a program in Ghanaian…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, High School Students, Information Technology, High School Teachers
Goldberger, Susan; McLaughlin, Joseph; Snyder, Nancy – Boston Foundation, 2021
With support from the Boston Foundation, a team of organizations--NextGen Talent, the Boston Private Industry Council, and Burning Glass Technologies--conducted research to assess how well Boston Public Schools (BPS) graduates who attend four-year colleges are connecting to internships and good first jobs, along with the existing capacity in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Students, Internship Programs, Employment Opportunities
Jennifer Schmitt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative research explores the effects of a gendered educational organization on female leaders at the district office and building leadership level. In explaining the theoretical framework of gendered organizational structures, the literature review describes how inequitable access to power within education produces excessive challenges…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Women Administrators, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Margot Denise Bishop – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The quality of care children receive from birth to kindergarten sets them on a trajectory for successful entry to school. Children who receive high-quality care, which is provided by qualified early educators with demonstrated mastery of the essential early learning core competencies, enter school ready to learn. Shortages of credentialed early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Employment
Aragona, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Mandatory choice programs, like the one currently in place in New York City, have created a situation in which many students commute to schools outside of the neighborhood they live in. While the intent is to provide expanded access, students often find themselves on public transportation commuting to schools they know very little about and where…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Commuting Students, School Choice, Student Transportation
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Zuluaga, Blanca; Ortiz, Marianella; Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
This article explores Belman and Heywood's sheepskin effect hypothesis using a modified Mincerian wage equation to test the sheepskin effect of returns on education in Colombia. This analysis is based on the 2014 Living Standards Survey from the National Department of Statistics. It includes variables that capture the possession of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Blacks, Females
Serena Wright-Bostic – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to determine to what extent, if any, teacher technology-related professional development affected the actual integration of technology in the classroom among 9th-12th-grade teachers. Convenience sampling was used to collect data. The sample for this study was 78 high school teachers…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Faculty Development, Grade 9, Grade 10
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Lin, Athena; Hess, Justin L. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This qualitative study explores changes in engineering students' civic engagement as they transition from high school to college and uses Social Cognitive Theory to understand factors that influence civic engagement. Background: Engineering programs aim to graduate civically engaged engineers who serve their communities and advance…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Participation, Citizen Participation, Social Cognition
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