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Moulton, Matthew J. – Middle Grades Review, 2020
In this essay, I use the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 to define homelessness and describe its prevalence in United States public schools. I present readers with statistics about student homelessness and situate Gorski's equity literacy within the progressive, equity-oriented foundations of the middle school…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Incidence, Public Schools
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Gherardi, Stacy – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Educational success stories are powerful tools that shape the decisions of policymakers. This study explores the ways in which these stories are crafted and how they differ among various educational stakeholders. Using administrator and teacher interviews from a school district which earned accolades for implementation of a 1:1 laptop program,…
Descriptors: Success, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Laptop Computers
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Provinzano, Kathleen; Sondergeld, Toni A.; Ammar, Alia A.; Meloche, Alysha – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2020
In recent years, community school (CS) reform efforts have been established and implemented as a method of realizing comprehensive school reform in under-performing school districts. This study investigates the impact of one CS initiative in a middle school on student academic and nonacademic outcomes over time and compared to a propensity score…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Change, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
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Curtin, Jenny; Hurwitch, Bill; Olson, Tom – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
An early warning system is a data-based tool that helps predict which students are on the right path towards eventual graduation or other grade-appropriate goals. Through such systems, stakeholders at the school and district levels can view data from a wide range of perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of student data. This "Statewide…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Indicators, Predictor Variables, At Risk Students