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Justyna M. Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused in-person school closures around the world that impacted student learning and academic achievement to an unknown degree for all types of students. A majority of research on out-of-school time (summer vacation, absences, weather-related events) and initial research related to the pandemic indicated a negative impact on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Academic Achievement
J. J. Cutuli; Sandra Torres Suarez; Aaron Truchil; Tyler Yost; Ciani Flack-Green – Educational Researcher, 2024
We tested 10 data-based strategies to better identify student homelessness in Camden City School District, which has a student body from minoritized backgrounds. We operationalized strategies through a research-practice partnership, following the federal homelessness definition. Data span 5 years (2014-15 through 2018-19), including integrated…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Homeless People, Identification, Data Analysis
Bai, Yifan; Straus, Stephanie; Broer, Markus – American Institutes for Research, 2021
Educational inequality due to family socioeconomic status (SES) has been the focus of both public dialogue and education research in the United States for many years. The current study aims to understand how educational inequality due to family SES has changed in the United States. Specifically, the study focuses on the changes in achievement gaps…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, National Competency Tests, Achievement Gap
Mala Maharana – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational achievement disparities continue to affect subgroups based on socioeconomic status, gender, race, and ethnicity. Despite efforts to close the achievement gap, the Black-White performance gap in reading, mathematics, and science scores remains virtually unchanged. The problem is that science educators in the United States receive…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teachers, Administrators, Suburban Schools
Janine Arciero – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The post-pandemic return to school posed many challenges for educational leaders. Administrative teams had to come up with plans to close achievement gaps created by an extended period of remote learning. One suburban New Jersey high school identified at-risk students and created an Academic Mentoring Support (AMS) program as an intervention. Once…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Students, High School Students, Suburban Schools
Janene Howard-Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This doctoral dissertation investigates the effects of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy on educational equity in New Jersey, focusing on three primary research questions. Firstly, the study examines whether the implementation of NCLB mandates led to the closure of achievement gaps between black and white students, as evidenced by disparities…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 4
Mayowa Christiana Fawole – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite the increased percentage of students with disabilities learning in an inclusive setting, the achievement gap remained wide between students with and without disabilities. Largely absent from research was an exploration of effective inclusive practices in secondary schools, a lack of clear guidelines for inclusive practices, implementation,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Achievement Gap, Inclusion, Special Education Teachers
Megan Dempsey; Joan Dalrymple – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Using cross-institutional survey data from 407 first-year college students, differences in information literacy preparation and academic library experiences between community college students and students at four-year institutions are examined. Results show that first-year community college students are more likely to be novice library users,…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Academic Libraries
Minus-Vincent, Daryl – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the predictive relationship of teacher race on student outcomes in New Jersey public schools, as measured by the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA), chronic absenteeism, and graduation rates. Specifically, the relationship between teacher and student race matching with Black students, the schoolwide…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Race, Ethnicity, Outcomes of Education
Jacob Cavins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Math performance became an increasing concern in the United States after the launch of Sputnik in 1957. This concern began with attempts to prescribe mathematical standards in the United States to improve student mathematics preparation. When the COVID pandemic began in 2020, policies on quarantining and remote learning were implemented, resulting…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Algebra, Grade 9
Thomas, Garrett M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is currently much conversation on the issue of the achievement gap as scholars, politicians, and educational leaders continue to grapple with educational inequity and underperformance of students in urban neighborhoods who are mostly Black and Latinx as compared with higher performing students, mostly white, in suburban neighborhoods. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Middle School Students
Kirp, David; Wechsler, Marjorie; Gardner, Madelyn; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Oxford University Press, 2022
"Disrupting Disruption" shows how three racially and ethnically diverse school districts--Union NJ, Union City OK, and Roanoke City VA--have defied the demographic odds, boosting overall graduation rates while shrinking or eliminating the opportunity gap. These districts resemble many others in their student population. What makes them…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Ethnicity, Race, Student Diversity
Bugge, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Many scholars have suggested over the past several decades have pointed to a persisting achievement gap between white and black students. A lack of parental support and advocacy, peer influences, student health issues, poor nutrition, and low socioeconomic status are among the factors contributing to this gap (Chubb & Loveless, 2004). This…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Factors, Racial Differences, African American Students
Aaliyah K. McClinton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Decades after the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" unanimous decision to desegregate schools, the ideology of Black people having equal educational opportunities has not been realized; Black people continue to lag in educational attainment. However, the inequalities in life experiences between Black and White people limit the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Algebra, College Entrance Examinations
Lessons Learned: A Retired Principal Returning to University Teaching Offers Advice for New Teachers
Reed, Candi Mascia – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2020
Candi Mascia Reed is a retired principal of programs for deaf and hard of hearing students in the Total Communication programs of Bergen County Special Services in the Hackensack School District in New Jersey. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at The College of New Jersey, Special Education Language and Literacy, Deaf Education Teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Teacher Education Programs