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Vanessa Bedolla – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focuses on the academic progress of English learners (ELs) from 2018 to 2023 during remote learning and compares it to their non-EL peers. Using a mixed-methods approach, data was collected from a southern California middle school. The findings reveal that a decrease in GPAs, an increase in chronic absenteeism, and a decrease in state…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parent Attitudes, Social Emotional Learning, Parent Child Relationship
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Gonzalez, Emir; McCraney, Michelle; Panesar-Aguilar, Sunddip; Cale, Chri – World Journal of Education, 2020
Middle school reading scores throughout the state of California have been predominantly less than average in recent years. A school located within this region has struggled to raise reading scores. An unknown problem existed that stemmed from the implementation of the school's reading program. The purpose of this investigation was to (a) determine…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Implementation
Rafalow, Matthew H. – University of Chicago Press, 2020
In the digital age, schools are a central part of a nationwide effort to make access to technology more equitable, so that all young people, regardless of identity or background, have the opportunity to engage with the technologies that are essential to modern life. Most students, however, come to school with digital knowledge they've already…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Technology Uses in Education, Racial Bias, Social Bias
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George C. Bunch – Intercultural Education, 2025
Access to core subject-area curriculum for students from immigrant backgrounds who are learning the dominant language of instruction has long been a barrier to equitable education around the world, especially in secondary schools. This article explores the promise of Complex Instruction (CI) to address barriers to access for such multilingual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Difficulty Level, Multilingualism, Core Curriculum
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Duckor, Brent; Holmberg, Carrie; Becker, Joanne Rossi – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2017
Research on teacher professional learning has shown that formative assessment can improve student learning more than most instructional practices. Empirical evidence indicates that thoughtfully implemented formative assessment practices improve students' learning, increase students' scores, and narrow achievement gaps between low-achieving…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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Valdes, Olivia M.; Denner, Jill; Dickson, Daniel J.; Laursen, Brett – Educational Psychology, 2021
Strong evidence indicates that student expectations of success in mathematics decline in middle school. The goal of the present study was to examine whether the expectations of teachers and the quality of the student-teacher relationship play a role in these declines. A total of 201 (86 boys, 115 girls) Latino/a students (M = 11.0 years) and their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students, Teacher Expectations of Students, Mathematics Achievement
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Jennifer Wells – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2024
Trauma, including abandonment, neglect, poverty, or abuse, affects students. Because of this, a classroom community is vulnerable to the sheer unpredictability of behaviors. Students who have experienced trauma need support in order to create a classroom community where they can thrive and learn. This study examines a Whole-Child Approach…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Classroom Environment, Student Behavior, Trauma
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Rebecca A. Cruz; Claire J. Shin; Rachel S. McClam – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
Schools and districts have long grappled with race- and disability-based exclusionary discipline inequities. Research on the topic has uncovered a variety of systems that maintain such disparities, including school policies and practices that exacerbate the problem. Researchers and practitioners have increasingly considered school context and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Discipline Policy, Disabilities
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Jiwon Hwang; Sam Choo; Stephanie Morano; Mengyuan Liang; Matthew Kabel – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2024
Recent studies have posited that K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education should go beyond traditional subject silos and take an interdisciplinary approach that integrates these core subjects into a cohesive curriculum to foster authentic problem-solving skills. The purpose of this study was to field test one of five…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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Beucher, Becky; Low, David E.; Smith, Amy – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2020
This article documents the design and implementation of a culturally responsive critical media literacies curriculum centered around media representations of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Students (grades 6-8) were invited to discuss media imagery relating to DAPL and to create memes reflecting their understandings. To situate this work, we…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Social Problems, Critical Literacy, Media Literacy
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Goldring, Rebecca – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The School Questionnaire was administered as part of the 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), which is a state and nationally representative sample survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The selected school samples include about 10,600 traditional and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Schedules, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
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Gerlinger, Julie – Education and Urban Society, 2022
The practice of temporarily removing students from school as a form of punishment (i.e., suspensions) remains quite common. This study uses longitudinal data from a large, urban school district in California to assess whether the use of suspensions improves school safety in the following school year. Additional analyses by student race and…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Crime, Suspension, School Policy
Lee, Monica G.; Soland, James – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2022
Reclassification can be an important juncture in the academic experience of English learners (ELs). Literature has explored the potential for reclassification to influence academic outcomes like achievement, but its impact on social-emotional learning (SEL) skills, which are malleable and important for long-term success, remains unclear. Using a…
Descriptors: Classification, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Midgette, Allegra Joie; Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Powers, Deborah Wong; Murata, Aki; Nucci, Larry – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
This study examined the application of Lesson Study for professional development (PD) for a domain approach to moral education. A comparison was drawn between the effects of Lesson Study with 17 teachers and 144 students representing middle schools in the same district as a prior study employing intensive traditional PD. In Lesson Study, groups of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Middle School Teachers, Faculty Development
Glasier, Victoria; Palmer, Jessica L. – Geography Teacher, 2019
Using current and historical data, the U.S. Census Bureau offers geography teachers activities with resources to use in the classroom. The activities are aligned to the National Geography Standards (2012) and provide real-world data examples while teaching concepts such as environmental changes and population changes. In a geography activity for…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Census Figures, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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