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Clennon-Straker, Madrine R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This retrospective multiple case study examined the extent to which elements of Wagner's 4Cs framework (competencies, conditions, context, and Culture) were perceived as present during the implementation of the teacher evaluation system (TEVAL) at two urban magnet high schools during the 2014-2015 school year. The overarching research question was…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Models, Urban Schools, Magnet Schools
Kunnath, Joshua P. – American Secondary Education, 2017
This mixed-methods study applied a decision-making theoretical framework to an investigation of teacher grading in a large urban school district in California. A sample of 251 high school teachers of core subjects were surveyed, and 15 teachers participated in four focus group interviews in order provide data on the influences, rationale, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Grading, Decision Making
Papp, Theresa A. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
In a case study of a Canadian urban high school, with mainly Aboriginal students that were non-traditional learners, teachers reported that student-centered learning within a culturally-responsive atmosphere contributed to educational success. The school and teachers provided wholistic, experiential, and relational instruction, deeply-steeped in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, High Schools, Indigenous Populations
Sheppard, Keith; Padwa, Linda; Kelly, Angela M.; Krakehl, Robert – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2020
This empirical census study was a quasi-experimental analysis of certification level (primary vs. secondary) and in-field vs. out-of-field certification. The sample included chemistry teachers (n = 2312) and physics teachers (n = 1387) in New York State in 2011-12. Findings indicated that the number of out-of-field teachers was relatively low, but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Teachers
Baule, Steven M. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2020
Recent federal data shows disparities among school discipline by race. This has been a long running concern in many arenas. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) provides a positive aspirational approach to student discipline instead of taking a more penal-based approach. This paper reviews the implementation of PBIS and queries…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Discipline, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Allen, Ricky Lee; Liou, Daniel D. – Urban Education, 2019
Judge Robert Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) argued that White supremacy is the leading cause of de facto segregation. However, White supremacy is still undertheorized in educational leadership. Through the lens of Charles Mills' racial contract, this article interprets a controversy surrounding…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Social Attitudes, Whites, Social Bias
Megha Ramaswamy; Crystal Lumpkins; Maria Alonso Luaces; Karin Chang; Paula Cupertino – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
The objective of this study was to report on teachers' perceptions of using health disparities content to engage high school students in urban communities over the course of a summer health disparities professional development (PD) program. Teachers participated in a three-week, 80-hour summer PD, where they received content on health disparities,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, High School Teachers, Access to Health Care
Krakehl, Robert; Kelly, Angela M.; Sheppard, Keith; Palermo, Martin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Physics, as a foundational science, has particular importance in predicting the postsecondary success of students who major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This quasiexperimental, observational study examined teacher-level and school-level predictors of student performance in physics, with a focus on isolated teachers. A New…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Physics, Professional Isolation, Context Effect
Coffey, Heather; Putman, S. Michael; Handler, Laura K.; Leach, Will – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2019
While Grow Your Own (GYO) programs have sought for decades to remedy teacher shortages across the United States, myriad factors, including the demographic shifts in public school populations, have in recent years exacerbated the need to recruit and retain teachers of color and of bilingual backgrounds. Amid models of precollegiate and…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Recruitment, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Malin, Joel R.; Hackmann, Donald – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how two urban principals, in high schools that feature comprehensive college-and-career readiness practices, utilize distributed leadership to facilitate their implementation. Design/methodology/approach: This study employed qualitative methods. Drawing upon semi-structured interview data,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Principals, College Readiness
Stark Education Partnership, 2017
In 2005, when the Canton City School District, Stark State College, the Canton Professional Educators Association, and the Stark Education Partnership came to together to establish Timken Early College High School (TECHS), the percentage of young adults in Canton, Ohio with some college or an associate degree was 33%. By TECHS's tenth year of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Acceleration (Education), High School Graduates
Birney, Lauren B.; Kong, Joyce; Evans, Brian R.; Persuad, Ashley M.; Danker, Macey – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor with New York City Public Schools (BOP-CCERS)(NSF DRL 1440869/PI Lauren Birney) program is a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported initiative through collaboration by multiple institutions and organizations led by Pace University.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Public School Teachers, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education
Sirer, M. Irmak; Maroulis, Spiro; Guimerà, Roger; Wilensky, Uri; Amaral, Luís A. Nunes – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015
Existing research highlights that families face geographic, social, and psychological constraints that may limit the extent to which competition can take hold in school choice programs. In this paper, we address the implications of such findings by creating a network of student flows from 11 cohorts of eighth-grade students in the Chicago Public…
Descriptors: School Choice, Enrollment, Public Schools, Urban Schools
Daniel Sparks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation includes three chapters focusing on policies directly related to improving college access and success. The first chapter focuses on lifetime eligibility of federal and state financial aid policies. The Pell Grant plays a critical role in helping students across the US to afford undergraduate education. In spite of its importance…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Access to Education, College Attendance
Watts-Taffe, Susan; Kirkendall, Autumn; Shaver, Nicholas; Heckman, Rebecca; Inman, Brittnee; Lampe, Kate; Jacquez, Farrah; Vaughn, Lisa M. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted teaching and learning in K-12 settings, as many public schools lacked the technological tools and techniques needed to support effective virtual meetings and online learning. In this article, we explore the impact of the pandemic on "Youth Built Change" (YBC), a STEM-pipeline partnership between…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Technology