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Daniel Diaz-Alcaraz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Minoritized students in public schools in Texas and across the nation continue to underachieve academically compared to their white peers. Despite similar academic achievement and socioeconomic backgrounds, minoritized students are often perceived more negatively by a predominantly white teacher workforce. The idea of cultural dissonance or…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Underachievement, Culturally Relevant Education, Principals
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Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Stevens, Tara; Valenzuela, Evelyn – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
The purpose of the current study was to examine barriers, if any, reported by special education directors to providing extended school year (ESY) services. Results indicate four barriers to providing ESY services listed in order of importance by special education directors: difficulty in finding qualified personnel to work over the summer,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Special Education, Rural Education, Disabilities
Kettler, Todd; Oveross, Mattie E.; Salman, Rania C. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
This descriptive study investigated the challenges related to implementing gifted education services in preschool centers. Participants were 254 licensed preschool center directors in a southern state. Participants completed a researcher-created survey including both selected response items and constructed response items to examine the perceived…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Preschool Education, Professional Development, Qualitative Research
Texas Education Agency, 2015
The Texas Education Agency developed the 2015 Texas State Plan to Ensure Equitable Access to Excellent Educators as part of a U.S. Department of Education (ED) requirement that states develop plans to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or family income. Texas has had an equity plan in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Stakeholders
Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Shapley, Kelly S.; Cordeau, Molly – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2006
This study supports efforts by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to foster greater state accountability and establish data-driven planning and self-assessment processes that help states and schools to address provisions of the recently enacted Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Personnel Selection
Caranikas-Walker, Fanny; Shapley, Kelly S.; Cordeau, Molly – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2006
This study supports efforts by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to foster greater state accountability and establish data-driven planning and self-assessment processes that help states and schools to address provisions of the recently enacted Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers