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Comeforo, Kristofer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There are vast disparities in educational outcomes along the lines of race and socioeconomic status in the American PreK-12 education system. One of the contributing factors to this discrepancy is the enrichment gap. Put simply, racially marginalized and low-income students are less likely to participate in enriching, supplemental learning…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Income Students
How Fayard, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The research problem for this study was the lack of understanding regarding parents' perceptions of and experiences with mathematics and instructional strategies for kindergarten through sixth-grade (K-6) students in a charter school, homeschool setting. Dewey's theory of experience and education was the conceptual framework for the study. In this…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Kimberly Crawford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Every year in Riverside School District, a pseudonym, children face the prospect of not attaining a prekindergarten school admission. Riverside has a large population of Black and Brown students and Haitian second language learners. The school also has a high percentage, 89.4%, of families who are considered to be low-income (School and District…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Nontraditional Education, Home Study
Prentice, Jean-Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This causal-comparative study analyzed third grade reading scores from the National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) K-2011, by one of five school types, and four U.S. geographical regions. Forty-one of 50 states were represented. The problem studied is the unexplained elementary reading performance…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Institutional Characteristics
Margaret M. Ervin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study was conducted in a middle-class area where school districts are largely average. The purpose of this study was to better understand how families choose among the options available to their child for entering kindergarten. These options include the neighborhood public school, open enrollment into another public school, homeschooling, or…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, School Choice, COVID-19
Jennifer Michelle Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative phenomenological research study examined parent perspectives on shared reading in science. This study was designed to understand parents perceived shared reading to influence their child's science vocabulary and comprehension. The purpose of the study was to determine how parents perceive shared reading to impact their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Education, Parents, Parent Attitudes