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Jeremiah Clabough; Caroline C. Sheffield – History Teacher, 2024
The later part of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century has many monikers in U.S. history textbooks, such as the "Gilded Age," the "Progressive Era," and the "Second Industrial Age." What it is rarely called, but should be known as, is the "Nadir of Race Relations." One topic in this…
Descriptors: History Instruction, War, World History, African Americans
Camille E. Coley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This comprehensive study explores the experiences of underrepresented students who have participated in informal science education programs at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Using qualitative methods, including interviews and participant observations, the research uncovers transformative insights shaping the educational landscape.…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education, Informal Education, Science Education
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McKay, Cathy; Park, Jung Yeon; Block, Martin – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the variables associated with the attitudes of students without disabilities toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in the physical education setting as a result of taking part in the Paralympic School Day (PSD) programme. Participants were 143 sixth-grade students, divided into 2 groups…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inclusion, Physical Education, Athletics
Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clémence Idoux; Parag A. Pathak – Blueprint Labs, 2024
School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home. Although 1970s desegregation efforts likely benefited minority students, urban school transportation is increasingly…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Racial Factors, White Students
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Phillips, Ariadna; Genao, Soribel – Intercultural Education, 2023
This study offers a review of existing research on translanguaging, inclusion, and computational literacies. It assesses existing school statistics and a student opinion survey released by the New York City Department of Education in Spring 2019 to investigate the attitudes and experiences of students at a public secondary school in the South…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism
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Chandra L. Alston; Jessica L. Eagle – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand the nature of writing instruction across time and grade bands. We used quantitative and qualitative analyses of teacher interviews and video records of classroom instruction of English language arts writing instruction in 97 fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms in 2010 and 2018. Video records showed a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Language Arts, Grade 4
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Herman, Ariela M.; Bernstein, Eve – Physical Educator, 2023
This study examined preservice teachers' instruction of goals in specific learning domains in physical education class and students' interpretation of these goals. Four preservice physical education teachers (all male) from a large urban university taught two lessons to eight sixth-grade students at an urban K-6 elementary school. The theory of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Physical Education Teachers
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Meredith P. Franco; Jessika H. Bottiani; Catherine P. Bradshaw – Grantee Submission, 2024
Students who experience teacher caring and high expectations (i.e., warm demand) are typically more engaged and successful at school. Yet, relative to White students, students of color tend to report lower levels of school social belonging and more distant relationships with their White teachers. Leveraging data from 179 6th-9th grade Measures of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness
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Freidus, Alexandra – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Despite its emphasis on pluralism, empirical research on asset-based pedagogies has typically focused on culturally, linguistically, or racially homogeneous groups of students. The rise of interest in culturally relevant pedagogy in the 1990s coincided with the resegregation of many school districts. As a result, few scholars…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education
Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clemence Idoux; Parag Pathak – Blueprint Labs, 2022
This is the policy brief for the discussion paper, "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York." While choice systems offer students in segregated neighborhoods access to schools that may be more integrated and of higher quality, does busing lead to improved academic performance as measured by higher test scores…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Racial Factors, White Students
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Peter Hull; Joshua Angrist; Parag Pathak; Christopher R. Walters; Talia Gerstle; Russell Legate-Yang – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Many states, school districts, and third-party platforms report measures of school performance. Such school ratings are widely consulted by parents and educators alike. The ratings appear to affect families' choices of where to live and where to enroll students (Bergman and Hill, 2018; Hasan and Kumar, 2019), as well as…
Descriptors: Race, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Bifulco, Robert; Schwegman, David J. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
We estimate the effects of accountability-driven school closure in New York City on students who attended middle schools that were closed at the time of closure and students who would have likely attended a closed middle school had it remained open. We find that students who would have entered the closed school had it not closed attended schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Closing, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
Nelson, Mary Theresa – Online Submission, 2019
This study identified the relationships among English Language Arts teacher teams, their collaboration in creating formative assessment, and its impact on the academic achievement of middle school students. The setting of this study was two urban private Nursery through Grade 8 elementary schools in 1 New York City district. The design for this…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Arts, Teacher Collaboration, Formative Evaluation
Coen, Thomas; Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Gleason, Philip – Mathematica, 2019
In this report, the authors present the results of a long-term tracking study that follows 1,177 students who applied to enter 1 of 13 oversubscribed Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools through a 5th or 6th grade admissions lottery in 2008 or 2009. Those students are now old enough to have attended college for at least two years. This…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness, College Attendance, Academic Persistence
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Onwumere, Dora D.; Cruz, Yamaris M.; Harris, Lauren I.; Malfucci, Katherine A.; Seidman, Steven; Boone, Cynthia; Patten, Kristie – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
A growing number of autistic students enter the school system, many with the capabilities of doing grade-level work. For these students, there seems to be a lack of focus on executive functioning, self-regulation, daily living skills (DLS), and self-determination. The Independence Curriculum (IC) is a set of units addressing identified areas of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Curriculum
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