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Miller, Sabrena – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Does working during the school year result in lowered perceptions of school climate and connectedness for middle school students? According to outcomes from a Rocky Mountain Region School District's (RMRSD) school climate survey, 20% of their middle school student population works during the school year. Existing literature on youth employment…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Employment, Correlation, High School Graduates
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Wolf, Sharon; McCoy, Dana C.; Godfrey, Erin B. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have made marked efforts to increase school enrollment. Yet attendance and completion rates remain low, particularly for girls. This study examines the reasons that school children do not attend school in a sample of Ghanaian students. Girls were more likely to miss school because a family member was sick, whereas…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, Attendance, Access to Education
Won, Seoung Joun; Han, Seunghee – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2010
This study examined the relationships between American and South Korean students' achievement and their time spent in out-of-school activities. Analyzing nationally representative data for 8,912 U.S. and 5,309 Korean middle school students from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003, we found differences in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Homework, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries