Publication Date
In 2025 | 2 |
Since 2024 | 31 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 114 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 366 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1138 |
Descriptor
High Schools | 2297 |
Urban Schools | 2297 |
High School Students | 696 |
Academic Achievement | 460 |
Public Schools | 363 |
Educational Change | 287 |
Student Attitudes | 266 |
Case Studies | 246 |
Secondary School Teachers | 241 |
Educational Environment | 227 |
Interviews | 227 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 76 |
Practitioners | 62 |
Administrators | 44 |
Researchers | 38 |
Teachers | 38 |
Parents | 14 |
Students | 11 |
Counselors | 8 |
Community | 6 |
Location
California | 127 |
New York (New York) | 127 |
New York | 126 |
Illinois | 67 |
Massachusetts | 51 |
Texas | 50 |
Pennsylvania | 42 |
Illinois (Chicago) | 34 |
United States | 33 |
Florida | 30 |
Ohio | 29 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 2 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 5 |
Does not meet standards | 9 |
Shivji, Azim; Wilson, Sandra – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
This report is based on data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), a nationally representative study of more than 23,000 ninth-graders in 2009. Follow-up surveys were administered to the cohort in 2012, 2013, and 2016. The study also obtained data from students' high school transcripts, generally covering the fall 2009 term…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Educational Attainment
VanderWey, Risha Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Title I school performance and effective district leadership and reform strategies. This study focused on the successful attributes and characteristics of principals whose high-performing (the percentage of students that meet or exceed on the AzMERIT assessment) high-poverty schools…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools
Aimee Hendrix-Soto – English Journal, 2016
Through engagement with critical literacies and multiliteracies, an urban classroom becomes a space of agency and resistance for students and teacher alike.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Urban Schools, Personal Autonomy, Resistance (Psychology)
Cowhy, Jennifer R.; de la Torre, Marisa – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2017
The Success Project was a multi-year effort that aimed to better prepare middle grade students for the transition to and success in high school and beyond. Underlying this initiative was a belief that many urban public middle grades students in the United States enter high school without sufficient social supports and academic skills to succeed in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Transitional Programs, School Readiness, Urban Schools
McHugh, Jeffrey A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between various components of building administrator leadership behaviors and teacher job satisfaction. The review of literature identified five factors, which the researcher named the Fulfilling Five, that relate positively to job satisfaction: achievement, autonomy, recognition,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrator Behavior, Principals, Job Satisfaction
Martell, Christopher C. – Journal of Education, 2018
In this interpretative case study, the researcher examined the beliefs and practices of three self-identifying culturally relevant social studies teachers related to their teaching of U.S. history at a racially and ethnically diverse urban high school. The teachers displayed beliefs and practices that were aligned with the core criteria of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education
Hicks, Simone B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore African American parental involvement of students with disabilities during transition planning in urban high schools. Through an explanatory case study the author seeks to gain a better understanding of parental involvement during the transition process in preparation for employment or…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Participation, Disabilities, African American Students
Nunez, Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
English learners (ELs) constitute one of the largest subgroups enrolled in the US public education system. The state of California has an estimated 1.5 million ELs in kindergarten through Grade 12. This mixed methods study employed improvement science principles to understand how three high school physics teachers implemented project-based…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Projects, Learner Engagement, Self Efficacy
Rivera, Nelson A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this case study is to examine the understanding and implementation of college and career readiness skills among career and technical education (CTE) teachers and administrators in a technical high school setting. A qualitative study was conducted at one technical high school located in an urban setting in the state of Connecticut.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Porter, Shanette C.; Easton, John Q.; Kiguel, Sebastian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test scores, survey measures of socio-emotional development and behaviours in 9th grade) for students who are more versus less "educationally advantaged" (i.e., likely to attain more years of education based on 8th-grade…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Effectiveness, At Risk Students, Graduation Rate
Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve – Harvard Education Press, 2020
In "A Single Garment", Genevieve Siegel-Hawley explores the leadership, policies, and practices that support contemporary school integration. Drawing on a wide range of sources, as well as her own experience as a parent, former student, and teacher, Siegel-Hawley provides a richly layered account of four Richmond, Virginia schools, each…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Equal Education, Preschools, Suburban Schools
Carpenter, Bradley W.; Bukoski, Beth E.; Berry, Matthew; Mitchell, Amanda M. – Urban Education, 2017
In the context of high-stakes accountability, education-related policy efforts have aimed to address the improvement of persistently low-achieving (PLA) schools via turnaround reform strategies. Such strategies provide opportunities for educational leaders to influence the process; however, limited research examining the role of the assistant…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Assistant Principals, School Turnaround, Urban Schools
Frost, Mandy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative ex post facto study investigated the effects of career academies on academic achievement and college readiness. A total of 1,206 12th-grade participants (196 career academy and 1,010 nonacademy students) were used in this study. These participants came from six high schools located in one large urban school district. Each of the…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Academic Achievement, College Readiness, Statistical Analysis
Robertson, Newman C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Building level principals are faced with a myriad of responsibilities from teacher observations to meeting with stakeholders to serving as chief academic and administrator in the school. From the student who frequently does not attend class to peer-to-peer fights to the student who brings a weapon to school causing a lockdown, any form of violence…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Crisis Management, Qualitative Research
Domanico, Ray – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2022
Between 1994 and 2014, New York City engaged in a historic overhaul of its publicly funded high schools. This included the opening of charter high schools (made possible by a 1999 state law) and the creation of new, smaller district high schools that would, in time, replace many of the city's large, traditional, comprehensive, and vocational high…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Urban Schools, High Schools