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Direct linkRousseau, Stephen Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The field of special education has emerged as an area of significant research over the last decade. One area that has been targeted for study within the body of research relates to the high rates of attrition of staff. With the advent of the federal legislation requiring school districts to locate and employ highly qualified teachers, the need to…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Federal Legislation, Disabilities, On the Job Training
Hobbs, Sherrell – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are two parts to socialization, informal and formal. In the United States, informal lessons of socialization come from a child's primary caretaker(s). Imagine a child growing up in this informal setting only to see the world from one perspective through that unique experience. Later the child goes into a formal school setting, to realize…
Descriptors: African Americans, High Schools, Socialization, School Activities
Pilot, Grover Cleve – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Our nation's K-12 schools are faced with numerous critical challenges that affect student achievement and consequently impact society. Key challenges, such as elevating academic achievement, meeting state and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) standards, high dropout rates, at-risk students, parental involvement, and the recruitment and retention of…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, High School Students, Dropout Prevention
Haley, Sherlyn Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study focused on examining the effect of two alternative school types on student success in Mississippi. To determine alternative school type, alternative program directors self-reported program design, and schools were divided into two groups. Type I schools were defined as "punitive-based" programs in which students receive…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Self Contained Classrooms
Baldridge, Mary Caufield – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The overall purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a "growth mindset" intervention on the beliefs about intelligence, effort beliefs, achievement goals, and academic self-efficacy of learning disabled (LD) students with reading difficulties. The treatment group consisted of 12 high school LD students with reading difficulties. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Intelligence, Intervention
Hsu, Tsui-Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was conducted with school personnel in Yun-Lin County, a rural school district of Taiwan, to identify and compare the attitudes of school administrators, regular education teachers, and special education teachers toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in the regular classroom and to identify the extent to which inclusion is…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship
