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The Effectiveness of Advisory Programs with Teachers and Learning Disabled African-American Students in Urban High Schools
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Gligor, Camelia Ramona – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This is a study that investigated the effects of Advisory program on African American high school students with specific learning disabilities. In this qualitative study the advisory program is examined through the lenses of teachers and students from a Mid East Metropolitan Area (MEMA). Three research questions guided this dissertation: (1) How…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, African American Students, Learning Disabilities, High School Students
The Social Dimensions of an Individual Act: Situating Urban Adolescent Students' Reading Growth and Reading Motivation in School Culture
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Francois, Chantal – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Reading underachievement among adolescent students, particularly in urban areas, has been well documented in the literature. This reality points to two problems: Schools possess neither the capacity needed to prepare students for higher education and the workforce, nor the ability to help students view literacy as a tool for critical thinking,…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Adolescents