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Brion, Corinne – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2023
Leaders set the tone and the culture for their schools. The purpose of this phenomenology study is to examine how the increase in racial diversity among urban middle school teachers impacts the school's culture. The author utilized the Invitational Education model as a conceptual framework. The researcher conducted a total of 28 interviews with…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), School Culture, Urban Schools, Middle School Teachers
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Breauna C. Wall – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2024
Diverse learners attending online K-12 schools deserve high quality and accessible educational programs. This research studies the preparation, knowledge, and practices of online middle school general and special education teachers in relation to supporting the needs of diverse learners, namely students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). A…
Descriptors: Readiness, Electronic Learning, Special Education Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Bartlett, Maria; Coen, Thomas; Gleason, Phil – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Recent studies of charter school effectiveness have questioned whether charter school networks can produce a lasting impact on students' long-term outcomes. Our study is the first to examine this issue at the network of Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools, which primarily serve disadvantaged students of color and constitute the nation's…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Disadvantaged Youth, Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness
Patrick J. Wolf; Jay P. Greene; Matthew Ladner; James D. Paul – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2021
Since the start of the new millennium, many states have launched or expanded private school choice options, permitted and expanded independently operated public charter schools, eased restrictions on homeschooling, and enacted policies that allow and encourage various forms of public school choice. One thing that is not on the rise, unfortunately,…
Descriptors: School Choice, National Competency Tests, Academic Achievement, Private Schools
Paul, James D.; Wolf, Patrick J. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Virtual charter schools provide full-time, tuition-free K-12 education through internet-based instruction. Although virtual schools offer a personalized learning experience, most research suggests these schools are negatively associated with achievement. Few studies account for differential rates of student mobility, which may produce biased…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Student Mobility, Charter Schools, Academic Achievement
Glenn, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This causal-comparative ex-post-facto study examined the association between learning modality and academic achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic created an environment in which multiple modalities of learning, including blended and remote classrooms, were occurring simultaneously, challenging the existing practices of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
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Yoo, Paul Y.; Domina, Thurston; McEachin, Andrew; Clark, Leah; Hertenstein, Hannah; Penner, Andrew M. – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Virtual charter schools are increasingly popular, yet there is no research on the long-term outcomes of virtual charter students. We link statewide education records from Oregon with earnings information from IRS records housed at the U.S. Census Bureau to provide evidence on how virtual charter students fare as young adults. Virtual charter…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Charter Schools, Virtual Schools, Outcomes of Education
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Walls, Jeff; Ryu, Jisu; Fairchild, Linda; Johnson, Jason – Educational Policy, 2021
Policy makers are increasingly attentive to the importance of supportive school climates, even as many students report that schools seem to be uncaring places. Using recent scholarship that foregrounds the organizational and contextual dimensions of educational caring and student engagement, we use qualitative case study interview data to examine…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Caring, Learner Engagement, Educational Environment
Cohen, Danielle – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2021
Eight years ago, in 2014, the Civil Rights Project issued a report that raised awareness about the dire state of segregation in New York State and, in particular, New York City schools. That report spurred substantial activism, primarily led by student groups, parents, teachers, and administrators, which has been influential in the current…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Educational History
Rhonda N. T. Nese; Angus Kittelman; M. Kathleen Strickland-Cohen; Kent McIntosh – Grantee Submission, 2021
One core feature of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) is a systems-level teaming process for coordinating staff implementation of evidence-based practices and monitoring student progress across all three tiers. Prior research has shown schools that report regular teaming and team-based data use are more likely to successfully…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Evidence Based Practice, Systems Approach, Program Implementation
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Lingyu Li – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: There is increasing research focusing on dual language (DL) education program policies and practices regarding who has access to bilingualism and whose bilingualism is valued and represented. However, limited research is situated in the context of Chinese-English DL education and its service of emergent bilingual learners…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Chinese, English, Elementary Schools
Steele, Jennifer L.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Hamilton, Laura S. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: This study examines school climate and student achievement trends under an ambitious school leadership residency program in an urban school district. The 2-year leadership residencies were intensive, combining at least 370 hours of professional development with on-the-job training, in which aspiring school principals held either…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Leadership Training, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
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Faude, Sarah – Educational Policy, 2021
Through an ethnographic case study within one struggling Afrocentric public charter school in the Mid-Atlantic from 2009 to 2011, I show how broader neoliberal reforms and an incomplete attempt at Afrocentric education combined to redefine Blackness as poverty, danger, and failure through the co-optation of school-based practices. Using a Critical…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Public Schools, Charter Schools, African American Students
LaShonda Y. Willis – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Classrooms across America have become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse. Little attention has been paid to where minority teachers tend to be employed, what happens to minority teachers once they are employed, and to the role of the employing organizations in teacher staffing problems. The purpose of this quantitative comparative study…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Attitudes
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Samuels, William Ellery; Tournaki, Nelly; Sacks, Stanley; Blackman, Sheldon; Sacks, JoAnn; Byalin, Kenneth; Peterford, Theresa – Education and Society, 2023
Teacher-student interactions are at the core of formal learning experiences. Since these interactions can be affected by ways in which the teacher or student perceive themselves to be similar, we investigated the effects of racial/ethnic and gender similarities on the type and frequency of disciplinary incidents adolescents were involved in at one…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Gender Differences, Discipline, Learning Experience
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