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Direct linkLeah Panther; Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan; Lasha Lalana; Laura Eby – Social Education, 2023
The authors of this article represent an interdisciplinary team that includes a literacy teacher educator, a high school economics teacher, a community-based math educator, and a math teacher educator. Responding to the needs and building from the strengths of the local community, we co-designed with youth a community-based FLE workshop that…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Financial Education, Community Education, Community Involvement
Weaver, Adam D.; Scherer, Philip; Hengen, Stephanie; Shriver, Mark D. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Proximity control is a common component of many classroom management strategies and has been shown to reduce disruptive behavior as well as increase academic engagement among students. Much of the research on proximity control to date has been conducted in structured classroom settings or in combination with other behavioral management techniques.…
Descriptors: Proximity, Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Problems, Teacher Student Relationship
Carol-Ann Burke, Lydia E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Children in low-income neighbourhoods experience an intersection of socio-structural factors that delimit their engagement with out-of-school (informal) science education. Using Bourdieu's framework of habitus, this paper explores how informal science educators and children in a given low-income community in western Canada described the attitudes,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Low Income, Context Effect
Preventing Summer Reading Loss for Students in Poverty: A Comparison of Tutoring and Access to Books
Bell, Sherry Mee; Park, Yujeong; Martin, Melissa; Smith, Jamie; McCallum, R. Steve; Smyth, Kelly; Mingo, Maya – Educational Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine if reading achievement of students from high-poverty US schools differs as a function of participation in summer tutoring versus access to books. Data from 100 at-risk youth who participated in tutoring (n = 45) or received self-selected books (n = 55) indicated significant gains for students in both…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Poverty, Books, Tutoring
Download full textAkister, Jane; Guest, Hannah; Burch, Sarah – International Education Studies, 2016
Promoting child mental wellbeing is an important part of UK early intervention policy. Children with poor physical or mental health have significantly lower educational attainment and lower social status as adults. "Activity" projects are one form of early intervention used to try and help vulnerable children. Evidence relating to the…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Transitional Programs, Secondary Education
Rinn, Anne N.; Reynolds, Marilyn J. – Roeper Review, 2012
Gifted children and adolescents can display behavioral characteristics similar to those exhibited by children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), leading to potential issues with misdiagnosis. The overlapping characteristics between giftedness and ADHD are often seen as anecdotal or to only…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Children, Student Behavior
Kim, James S.; Quinn, David M. – Review of Educational Research, 2013
This meta-analysis reviewed research on summer reading interventions conducted in the United States and Canada from 1998 to 2011. The synthesis included 41 classroom-and home-based summer reading interventions involving children from kindergarten to Grade 8. Compared to control group children, children who participated in classroom interventions,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
