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Lo, Michelle T.; Ruef, Jennifer L. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2020
As institutions strive to improve teaching and learning for all, educators must consider equitable instruction. This includes equitable distributions of authority and agency among students. The authors define distribution of authority as shared opportunities for decision-making in enacting mathematical tasks and agency as the power to carry out…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Student Empowerment, Participative Decision Making
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Chan, Wing Yi; Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Seitz, Scot; Wilson, Christyl; Khatib, Nadim – Youth & Society, 2020
This study examined the association between participation in a school-based group-mentoring program (Project Arrive) and academic outcomes in a group of ninth-grade students who had been identified as at high risk of high-school dropout (n = 239). Comparison participants were ninth-grade students with similar levels of risk (n = 980). Using…
Descriptors: Mentors, Grade 9, At Risk Students, Dropout Prevention
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Patterson, Alexis D. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
Over the last few decades, there has been an international focus on productive talk in science classrooms, requiring teachers to use more dialogic practices with their students. Studies promoting a dialogic approach propose that students have conversations in small, student-led groups. However, the literature in education and science education…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Social Justice, Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods
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Hands, Catherine M. – School Community Journal, 2014
This study builds on existing research on school-community partnerships in middle and secondary schools by examining the roles of the students and the impact of social influences on their school-community liaising practices. Documents, observations, and 20 interviews with students, school leaders, teachers, and support staff from one urban,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Student Role, Social Influences
Moretti, Richard D.; Conte, Philip R. – Educational Facility Planner, 2012
The Seaford School District, Seaford, Delaware, determined that a component of their "reinvention" of Seaford High School would be the creation of a New Tech Academy, affiliated with the New Tech Network and housed in an addition to that building. The New Tech Network, headquartered in Napa, California, is a rapidly growing association…
Descriptors: High Schools, Facility Expansion, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
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Blickenstaff, Jacob Clark – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The continued downward spiral of enrollment in physical sciences in the USA and Europe has science educators concerned on both sides of the Atlantic. Physics has been particularly hard-hit, with the percentage of students choosing to major in the subject at the lowest level in decades. University physics has a reputation as a difficult, abstract…
Descriptors: Physics, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science