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Direct linkCui, Tianxue; Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Cheng, Emily Hongzhen; Liu, Qimeng – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school, and family domains. We also compared such factors with the results for students with socioeconomic advantages (SEA). A sample of 1767 eighth-graders (851 students with SEA and 916 students…
Descriptors: Success, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Kelly Streams Hudson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
An indicator of college readiness is the participation in advanced courses in junior high school. The purpose of this mixed methods study is to examine the social capital of 7th and 8th grade students enrolled in advanced mathematics courses. This study examined junior high student perspectives in the areas of attitude toward college, teacher…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Disadvantaged Youth, Preadolescents, Grade 7
Tonso, Karen L.; Colombo, Marie – Journal of School Choice, 2006
This article unpacks the decision to decharter a successful urban middle school serving African American students, especially focusing on parental choice in a school caught between two urban reform initiatives: charter schooling and state takeovers of urban districts. Originally chartered by a university, DeCharter became a "school of choice" in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, School Choice
Download full textFeldman, Jay; Tung, Rosann; Ouimette, Monique – Center for Collaborative Education, 2003
Perhaps the greatest challenge facing educators of today is to create and sustain high-quality educational environments for low-income students and students of color. The Boston Pilot Schools Network, a network of eleven small, innovative schools within the Boston Public Schools, can be a model for other schools and districts as to how to create…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Low Income Groups, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students
