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Tyrone Cummings – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The causal-comparative research study examined if academic achievement differs between African American 8th-grade students in schools where they constitute the majority versus the minority in Clarendon County, South Carolina. The research questions investigated 8th-grade African American students' academic performance in English Language Arts and…
Descriptors: Grade 8, African American Students, Measurement, Predominantly White Institutions
Deutsch, Jonah; Johnson, Matthew; Gill, Brian – Mathematica, 2020
In partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education and through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, Mathematica conducted a study that measured each Louisiana public high school's promotion power, which is a school's effect on the long-term success of its students as indicated by high school graduation, college or career readiness,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Success, Outcomes of Education
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Richardson, Alice; Ascione, Judith; Barker, Valerie – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2015
In many parts of the world, Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 (3.14), but because of the day-month ordering of dates in Australia, and because March is very close to the start of the academic year, Australians prefer to celebrate Pi (Approximation) Day on 22 July (22/7). Thirty-eight Year 8 students (aged 13-14 years) from two local high schools in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Mathematical Concepts