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Matthew Kraft; Nicole Simon; Melissa Lyon – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education and requiring large scale school transformation on a pace never before seen. Though prior research on organizational change has emphasized the importance of working conditions for teacher satisfaction and student achievement…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs
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Hoisington, Susan; Slate, John R.; Martinez-Garcia, Cynthia; Barnes, Wally – Athens Journal of Education, 2018
In this investigation, the effect of instructional expenditure ratio grouping on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Writing test passing rates for students in poverty was examined. Data were obtained from the Texas Education Agency on all Texas high school students for the 2006-2007…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poverty, Low Income Students, High School Students
Bettinger, Eric P.; Evans, Brent J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Pre-college advising programs exist in most disadvantaged high schools throughout the United States. These programs supplement traditional advising by high school guidance counselors and attempt to help underrepresented and disadvantaged students overcome the complexities of the postsecondary admission and financial aid processes. Existing…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Guidance, High School Students, At Risk Students
Trice, Toni M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research shows a math achievement gap for at-risk and economically-disadvantaged students in the United States. To address this issue, a Texas school district implemented a 90-minute math block-scheduling program with 8th grade students. Shaped by the academic learning time and social justice theories, the purpose of this quantitative program…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, At Risk Students
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Scanlan, Andrew E. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2020
This report presents key findings from "Learning in the Fast Lane: The Past, Present, and Future of Advanced Placement," by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan, and published by Princeton University Press in 2019. American education has long been plagued by excellence gaps among the young people who make it into the highest levels…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Achievement Gap, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
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Arreguín-Anderson, María G.; Salinas-Gonzalez, Irasema; Alanis, Iliana – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Using Latino critical race theory as a lens, this qualitative study explored ways in which young children's translanguaging practices informed the design of culturally relevant sociodramatic spaces in a bilingual early childhood classroom located along the Texas/Mexico border in South Texas. The authors identified aspects of language development…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Critical Theory, Race, Code Switching (Language)
Pazera, Carol; Wiggins, Afi – Online Submission, 2015
The CTE program was more cost-effective in 2013-2014 than it was in 2012-2013, despite a lower college readiness rate and an increase in the per student cost from the previous year. This was CTE's third year of improvement in cost-effectiveness.
Descriptors: College Readiness, Program Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Vocational Education
Corporation for National and Community Service, 2014
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) supports mentoring for children and youth from disadvantaged circumstances through several of their programs. CNCS believes that caring and capable adults can make a critical difference in the lives of children and youth in need. Mentoring is a proven method to ensure students complete…
Descriptors: Mentors, Disadvantaged Youth, Children, Capacity Building
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Autenrieth, Robin L.; Lewis, Chance W.; Butler-Purry, Karen L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2017
The Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E[superscript 3] ) summer teacher program is hosted by the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and is designed to provide engineering research experiences for Texas high school science and mathematics teachers. The mission of the E[superscript 3] program is to educate and excite…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Engineering Education, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
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Tapo Chimbganda – International Journal of Nurture in Education, 2016
In this article, I draw from the practices of nurturing that developed in England in the 1970s as an intervention to support young children who were often experiencing socioeconomic and cultural disadvantages. Nurture groups provided opportunities for social, emotional, and cognitive development where shortcomings in family provision created…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Social Support Groups, Caring
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Brown, Amber L; Lee, Joohi – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program when implemented within Head Start programs by measuring children's language proficiency scores. Participants were kindergarteners concurrently enrolled in both a Head Start program and the Home Instruction for Parents of…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten
Almeida, Cheryl; Allen, Lili – Jobs For the Future, 2016
Through Job For the Future's (JFF's) work with communities around the country on the Back on Track model, postsecondary bridging strategies have emerged as a particularly critical and especially replicable component of programming for vulnerable youth. This issue brief offers a typology of evidence-informed bridge programming, drawing on…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Transitional Programs
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Coombs Richardson, Rita; Vafa, Sherry; Litton, Freddie – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2017
By providing early access to education, early childhood and community-based programs are helping to close the achievement gap prevalent among children from impoverished homes.
Descriptors: Poverty, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, School Community Relationship
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Heiman, Daniel; Murakami, Elizabeth – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
This critical ethnographic study investigated how gentrification processes shaped an elementary school's community and two-way bilingual education (TWBE) program in Central Texas. Findings revealed how these gentrification processes impacted the principal and vice principal at the ontological and epistemological levels, as their ways of being and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Social Class
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Rivera, Hector; Li, Jui-Teng – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
This study examines the relationship between Hispanic English learners' learning, their parents' involvement, and their teachers' empowerment through professional knowledge. It is believed that Hispanic parents' involvement in their children's school activities is more influential to academic performance and educational attitudes than is teacher…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Teacher Empowerment, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
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