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Shiller, Jessica T. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
This article examines a recent reform effort that has opened hundreds of small high schools in poor urban communities in New York City, The New Century Schools Initiative (NCSI). Founders hoped that the small schools strategy would create personalized environments where relationships could develop between teachers and students, leading to improved…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Student Relationship
Halverson, Erica – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2010
Educators must consider how learning environments can structure experiences to produce desired learning outcomes. In this paper, the author describes one type of learning environment where youth have the opportunity to construct adaptive, emergent identities--a "dramaturgical" process that structures the telling, adapting, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Adolescent Development, Personal Narratives, Theater Arts
Kwon, Kyee Yum; Suh, Younjung; Bang, Yoo-Seon; Jung, Jeesun; Moon, Seungho – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study examined and compared the educational perspectives of Korean parents of elementary school students and their teachers. 430 parents and 143 teachers in the New York metropolitan area participated in the survey and 16 teachers, administrators, and parents were interviewed. The findings indicated that the teachers not only misunderstood…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Schools
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Economic Boost: New Alliance Report Examines Economic Impact of Reducing the High School Dropout Rate Among Students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, High Schools, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Subramony, Deepak Prem – Educational Technology, 2009
This article discusses an issue of growing interest to educational technologists--namely, the complex relationships cultural minority learners have with education and technology--by analyzing first-hand ethnographic data with the help of insights from major social reproductionist scholars. These theoreticians inspire distinctive interpretations of…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Ethnography, Educational Technology, Asian Americans
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
Twenty-five years ago, the still-resonant report "A Nation at Risk" urged schools to add more time--an hour to the usual six hour day and 20-40 days to the typical 180-day ear--to ward off a "rising tide of mediocrity" in American education. Today, city, school, state, and national leaders are engaged in a renewed effort to do…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Time Factors (Learning), Poverty, Minority Groups
Morgan, Yvette; Sinatra, Richard; Eschenauer, Robert – Education and Urban Society, 2015
Described is a 4-year model of a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) offered to 294 academically and economically disadvantaged students and their parents during in- and out-of-school time activities through partnerships forged with school personnel and community-based agencies. In an urban high school where…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Disadvantaged Youth, High School Students, Minority Group Students
Martinez, Reina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose for this study was to determine the influence on achievement and classification rate into special education of racially, culturally, ethnically, linguistically diverse students following the use of a district-designed response to intervention (RtI) structure by examining local processes that may contribute to student achievement and…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Academic Achievement, Special Education, Student Diversity
Nieto-Fernandez, Fernando; Race, Kathryn; Quarless, Duncan A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2013
The Old Westbury Neuroscience International Research Program (OWNIP) encourages undergraduate students from health disparities populations and underrepresented minorities to pursue careers in basic science, biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research fields. To evaluate this program, several measures were used tracked through an online…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Mentors, Science Laboratories, Student Development
Zakierski, Marlene; Siegel, Alice – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed example of effective professional development for teachers that resulted in positive changes to the effectiveness of the school's reading program. This study describes the results of an intervention school-wide program that was conducted in a large urban school with a majority of minority…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Test Results, Poverty, Reading Programs
Sciurba, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The discourse on multicultural literature has focused on providing children of color opportunities to "see themselves" in the texts they read. Since the 1920s, advocates like W.E.B. DuBois have stressed that "visibility" in literature fosters positive psychological development among underrepresented groups of children, in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Civil Rights, Males, Minority Group Students
Ferri, Beth A.; Connor, David J. – Gender and Education, 2010
Recent criticism of the over-representation of minority students in special education do not adequately account for gender, despite the fact that urban special education classrooms in the USA are largely populated by young men of colour. In fact, we know very little about how being female shapes the experiences and understandings of young women of…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Groups, Special Education, Working Class
Ford, Wendy G. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are a wide variety of e-government information and services that small business owners and managers can utilize. However, in spite of all of the service incentives and initiatives to promote e-government, research studies have shown that this information is not widely accessed. Studies that explore the utilization of e-government information…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Information Utilization, Profiles, Internet
Romano, Richard M.; Losinger, Regina; Millard, Tim – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2010
In his February 2009 address to Congress, President Obama called attention to the problems of higher education and promised a policy agenda to restore the U.S. to its leadership role in student access and completion rates. However, a depressed economy, stagnant or falling state funding for public higher education, and public resistance to rising…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Low Income
Adamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
The inequitable distribution of well-qualified teachers to students in the United States is a longstanding issue. Despite federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act and the use of a range of incentives to attract teachers to high-need schools, the problem remains acute in many states. This study examines how and why teacher quality is…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Salaries, Educational Research