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Justyna M. Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused in-person school closures around the world that impacted student learning and academic achievement to an unknown degree for all types of students. A majority of research on out-of-school time (summer vacation, absences, weather-related events) and initial research related to the pandemic indicated a negative impact on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Academic Achievement
McCullough, Moira; Dotter, Dallas; Burnett, Alyson; Sutton-Heisey, Rachel; Forde, Jasmine; Carrillo-Perez, Amanda – Mathematica, 2022
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that starts and manages public charter schools, primarily in traditionally underserved communities. As part of a 2016 grant awarded to Uncommon from the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program to support replication and expansion of its school model, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
Jose M. Lowe – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While extensive research has been conducted on academic advising at four-year colleges, there is a noticeable gap in studies addressing academic advisors within support programs at two-year colleges. This creates an opportunity to investigate the roles, practices, challenges, and experiences of academic advisors in this often-overlooked…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Advising, Academic Support Services, Role Theory
Lauren Daniell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research uses a quantitative methodology to explore the perceptions of secondary school students and parents on the academic, social, and emotional effects of COVID-19. During a global pandemic, the study's participants consist of students and parents in a small New Jersey school district. The researcher surveyed students and parents on their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Janine Arciero – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The post-pandemic return to school posed many challenges for educational leaders. Administrative teams had to come up with plans to close achievement gaps created by an extended period of remote learning. One suburban New Jersey high school identified at-risk students and created an Academic Mentoring Support (AMS) program as an intervention. Once…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Students, High School Students, Suburban Schools
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2024
Since 1997, Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) has published the Newark Kids Count Data Book, a one-stop source for child well-being data on the state's largest city. Newark Kids Count includes the latest statistics, along with five-year trend data, in the following areas: demographics, family economic security, child health, child…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Population Trends, Racial Differences