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Ali M. Alodat; Marcia Gentry; Hyeseong Lee – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
Exceptionally talented refugee students are often underrepresented in allocating to gifted programs because of inadequate identification methods in Arab countries. This study investigates the Arabic version of the Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence (HOPE) Scale for identifying gifted refugee students. Students (n = 13,598) from refugee camp…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Refugees, Identification, Arabic
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Anber, Anber M.; Al-Duais, Safia Naji – International Education Studies, 2019
This study aims to identify the obstacles of learning chemistry for ninth grade students in Syrian Arab Republic-Idlib Suburb Refugee camps and suggest solutions to overcome these obstacles. The study followed an analytical descriptive approach using two questionnaires of (58) items of questions for teachers and (18) for students. The population…
Descriptors: Barriers, Chemistry, Science Education, Refugees
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Rice, Eric; Petering, Robin; Rhoades, Harmony; Barman-Adhikari, Anamika; Winetrobe, Hailey; Plant, Aaron; Montoya, Jorge; Kordic, Timothy – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ) high school students experience higher rates of homelessness than their heterosexual peers. Moreover, LGBQ high school students are more likely to stay in riskier locations (eg, with a stranger) and less likely to stay in a shelter. This study tested whether these trends also apply to…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Middle School Students, Sexual Identity, Homosexuality
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2006
Picked up by immigration authorities, undocumented children who are apprehended without their parents are sent to shelters throughout the United States and educated while they wait out deportation proceedings. At one such shelter in Miami, new students appear almost as rapidly as others leave. The shelter is run by Catholic Charities of Miami…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Federal Government, Foreign Countries