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Wilson, Alison – High School Journal, 2022
This study extends research on cultural reproduction theory and employs a critical quantitative lens to examine how schools contribute to differential science outcomes based on intersectional student backgrounds. Using nationally representative PISA 2015 data, structural equation modeling is utilized with intersectional student background groups…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Liboro, Renato M.; Travers, Robb; St. John, Alex – High School Journal, 2015
In 2012, Canadian media coverage on Bill 13--an Ontario legislative proposal to require all publicly funded schools to support Gay-Straight Alliances as a means of addressing issues concerning bullied lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students--instigated a divisive exchange among representatives of the Ontario Catholic school sector.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Homosexuality, Community Programs
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de Souza, Marcela – High School Journal, 2013
This article reports results of a qualitative study conducted at a public "escuela secundaria" (U.S. grades 7, 8, and 9) in Guadalajara, Mexico, during the spring of 2010. As the second phase of an ongoing project, the main goal was to learn from direct classroom observation about the most prevalent teaching and institutional practices…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Unks, Gerald – High School Journal, 1983
Compares and contrasts the role of the school principal in American and British schools, focusing on the author's personal experiences in observing and dealing with principals. Also considers administrator-teacher relationships and organizational patterns within school systems, suggesting that students (not principals/superintendents) be at the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Tamura, Yuichi – High School Journal, 2004
School rules in Japan are consequential in prescribing socially accepted patterns of students' lifestyles both within and outside schools. This article discusses how school rules were interpreted as a social problem in the 1980s and the 1990s. Social constructionist perspectives of social problems call for sensitivity to the plurality of people's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, School Policy, Life Style