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Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2017
This report analyzes the psychometric properties of the revised school-level SEL implementation rubric and the SEL specialists' activity log.
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Elementary Schools
Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G.; Schiman, Jeffrey C. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2016
It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects. The evidence at first seems contradictory, as the quality of instruction appears to decline following turnover…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, Educational Quality, Urban Schools
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Foiles Sifuentes, A. M. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
This article examines the intersection of race, gender, class, and academic success through an ethnographic case study in a Texas charter high school. The 98% working-class, Latino student population was exposed to an array of stigmas ascribed to their persons based on negative social stereotypes of race, ethnicity, gender, and class due to the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Ethnography, Charter Schools
Montemayor, Aurelio M.; Chavkin, Nancy – Voices in Urban Education, 2016
Title I schools that serve a large population of low-income students often view families through the lens of an outdated paradigm of family engagement in education, assuming parents are mostly uneducated, ill informed, and much in need of training and support to be good parents. "Comunitario" projects in the Rio Grande Valley of south…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Leadership Effectiveness, Family Involvement, Parent Participation
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Corrales, Antonio; Schumacher, Gary; Peters, Michelle L. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
This study examined the relationship between school funding and graduation rates of Hispanic students. Data from a purposeful sample of 147 Texas school districts identified as having a student Hispanic population greater than 75% were examined. Additionally, superintendents were interviewed to provide an in-depth understanding of the potential…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Graduation Rate, Educational Finance, Superintendents
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Garland, Marshall; Rapaport, Amie – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
Taking advanced high school courses predicts such postsecondary outcomes as enrolling in college, persisting in college courses, and completing a degree. In Texas, where Hispanic students make up 51 percent of the student population, their access to and enrollment in advanced courses is an ongoing concern despite recent gains. In particular,…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, High School Students, Hispanic American Students, STEM Education
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Sullivan, Jeremy R.; Winter, Suzanne M.; Sass, Daniel A.; Svenkerud, Nicole – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Many tests provide users with several different types of scores to facilitate interpretation and description of students' performance. Common examples include raw scores, age- and grade-equivalent scores, and standard scores. However, when used within the context of assessing growth among young children, these scores should not be interchangeable…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Scores, Raw Scores
Stinson, Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is a relative absence of research that specifically uses Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) data to investigate the relationship between birthdate of kindergartners and later academic success in third grade. This quantitative study investigated school start age and academic success on the 3rd grade Reading TAKS in a sample of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Birth, School Schedules, Academic Achievement
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Schuetze, Andrew; Claeys, Lorena; Flores, Belinda Bustos; Sezech, Shannon – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2014
As an alternative to experimental design, using a social design experiment methodology, we analyzed the Academy for Teacher Excellence's "La Clase Mágica's" (LCM) Robotics Clubs, a university-school collaborative partnership. Given the scarcity of minority representation in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Clubs, Robotics, STEM Education
Online Submission, 2015
In school districts across the nation, diverse student groups, including English Learners and students with disabilities, have been experiencing significant gains in reading performance after using READ 180. This compendium of READ 180 research contains results of 40 studies conducted in a variety of settings, in school districts across the…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
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Kearney, W. Sean; Herrington, David E.; Aguilar, David V. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
This article presents a case study of one high performing high poverty campus serving students of color in South Central Texas. The researchers utilized the criteria for 90/90/90 schools established by Douglas Reeves (2004). In order to meet these criteria, schools had to have the following characteristics: 90% or more of the student body had to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Schools, School Effectiveness, Poverty
Vargas, Joel H.; Miller, Marc S. – School Administrator, 2011
Once a radical concept, early college high schools are flying soundly today. The challenge today--and the excitement of those involved--centers on learning from this successful innovation and bringing the early college design to many more young people. Expansion is taking place through the creation of early college districts covering all students…
Descriptors: High Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, College Credits, Access to Education
Permenter, Diane Aldrich – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study compared the standardized reading achievement scores in grades 1, 2 and 3 of two groups of students: one group who participated in Pre-Kindergarten (PK) in a large urban public school district in North Texas, with the assessment results of a group of grade level peers with similar ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics, who did not…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Reading Achievement, Scores, Elementary School Students
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Reyes, Reynaldo, III – High School Journal, 2016
One of the many consequences of a neoliberal, high-stakes policy in No Child Left Behind has been that teachers and administrators have resorted to the systematic removal of vulnerable student groups, such as Latina/o English language learners. This process has dehumanized these students and commodified aspects of their identity, such as language,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, High Stakes Tests, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Null, Curtis F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student poverty levels, defined by the number of students identified as economically disadvantaged by qualifying for free and reduced lunch and school climate. The literature review examined school climate and culture, effects of student socioeconomic (SES) status on education,…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Correlation
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