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Lohr, Abby M.; Bell, Melanie L.; Coulter, Kiera; Marston, Sallie; Thompson, Moses; Carvajal, Scott C.; Wilkinson-Lee, Ada M.; Gerald, Lynn B.; Korchmaros, Josephine – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
When students feel connected to their school, they experience positive health and academic outcomes. In contrast, school disengagement is a predictor of dropout, delinquency, and substance use. School garden programming has the potential to help children achieve academic outcomes and feel connected to their school. Unfortunately, most school…
Descriptors: Gardening, Student School Relationship, Learner Engagement, Hispanic American Students
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Georgis, Dina; Matthews, Sara – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This paper reflects on a research-creation project that investigates the ways in which surveillance is experienced by youth as an embodiment that might be difficult to articulate in words but rather expressed affectively, through emotion and social practice. Our argument is that the aesthetic intervention provoked by research-creation can…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Research, Art Activities, Intervention
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Green, Kerry M.; Doherty, Elaine E.; Bugbee, Brittany A. – Prevention Science, 2023
Health equity research has identified fundamental social causes of health, many of which disproportionately affect Black Americans, such as early life socioeconomic conditions, neighborhood disadvantage, and racial discrimination. However, the role of life course factors in premature mortality among Black Americans has not been tested extensively…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience, Social Integration, Adults
Brown, Ariadne; Teravainen-Goff, Anne; Clark, Christina – National Literacy Trust, 2023
Many employers bemoan a lack of communication skills relevant to the workplace in their workforce, particularly with their younger intake. This report shows that providing young people who aren't confident communicators with structured oracy and writing activities as well as real-world opportunities to practise those skills with business…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Communication Skills, Career Development, Career Readiness
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Hapini Awang; Nur Suhaili Mansor; Syazatul Natrah; Farzana Anis; Pitri Yeni Azwar; Nurul Huda; Ramlan Mustapha – Online Submission, 2023
In addition to the significance of education for improving economic growth and skill development, higher education is also crucial for the indigenous community, better known as Orang Asli in Malaysia. Unfortunately, many Orang Asli ethnic minorities living in remote areas or highlands of Peninsular Malaysia face high dropout rates across all…
Descriptors: High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Jazzme Anin Blackwell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine how and to what extent an afterschool program for marginalized youth assists in developing workforce readiness skills through a critical positive youth development (CPYD) framework that considers the social contexts of youth. There is little research on afterschool programs that prepare youth for the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Youth, After School Programs, Social Environment
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Jennifer Feldman; Jennifer Wallace – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scholarships, Disadvantaged Environment
Peter Braveboy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative, single case study was to identify leadership practices and processes that contributed to the success of a single High Needs, Title 1 elementary school that has experienced acknowledged superior academic success, particularly for its minoritized and low socioeconomically disadvantaged students, as indicated by the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Schools, Minority Group Students
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Thomas Beery; Marie Fridberg; Søren Praestholm; Tanya Uhnger Wünsche; Mads Bølling – Environmental Education Research, 2024
A substantial body of research highlights the value of nature experience in supporting children's well-being and development. Given the growing interest in connectedness to nature (C2N), a better understanding of C2N measurement provides multiple opportunities, including consideration of the use of tools for research purposes and practitioner…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Child Development, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Erik Kormos – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This research study investigated the perspectives of urban K-12 educators regarding the challenges they confronted when endeavoring to implement online learning effectively. The quantitative investigation involved 204 full-time urban teachers in a Midwestern state, all completing a researcher-developed questionnaire. The findings illustrated that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools, Barriers
Erik Torres – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to examine the extent to which differences were present in the mathematics achievement of Texas Grade 8 Emergent Bilingual students by their economic status, special education status, and ethnicity/race. The purpose of the first article was to determine the extent to which student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement
Beach, Josh M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
What do students learn in school? In the 21 century, this question has become a political dilemma for countries around the globe. It is a deceptively simple question, but there has never been an easy answer. The problem of measuring student learning appears to express an educational problem: What and how much do students learn? Most student…
Descriptors: Learning, Accountability, Grade Inflation, Evaluation Problems
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Diemer, Matthew A.; Pinedo, Andres; Banales, Josefina; Mathews, Channing J.; Frisby, Michael B.; Wilkerson, Elise M.; McAlister, Sara – Grantee Submission, 2021
Critical consciousness (CC) scholarship frames how more marginalized people deeply analyze, feel empowered to change, and take collective action to redress perceived inequities. These three dimensions of CC correspond to critical reflection, motivation, and action, respectively. This paper aims to re-center action in CC scholarship, given the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Social Action, Empowerment, Change Agents
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Lalas, Jose W., Ed.; Strikwerda, Heidi Luv, Ed. – International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, 2021
While the issue of advancing equity occupies the pages of many education journals across the world and pursuing it in schools and classrooms is a common instructional goal, there is an obvious absence of established school policies combined with pedagogies on how to achieve educational equity. Therefore, equity solution driven by inclusion,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Power Structure, Students, Inclusion
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Hsu, Pi-Sui; Lee, Eric Monsu; Smith, Thomas J.; Kraft, Carol – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how an after-school program that infused Maker education influenced Midwestern U.S. middle school youths' attitudes toward science. The researchers conducted pre- and post-interviews with six students from non-dominant backgrounds as well as the teacher, and also administered attitudinal…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scientific Attitudes, After School Programs, Shared Resources and Services
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