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Flanagan, Constance; Gallay, Erin E.; Pykett, Alisa – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Civic science (CS) is an approach to science learning and action in which youth determine issues of concern in their communities and use science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) knowledge and methods to address them. In this article, we focus on CS as it is applied to environmental concerns and enacted by children and youth in urban…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Equal Education, STEM Education, Environmental Education
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Rand, Catherine L.; Rand, Muriel K. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
We examined how using five different simplified texts on the same subject would affect reading comprehension. 335 students in grades four through eight read one of five texts retrieved from Newsela.com and then completed a comprehension test. Results from a 3-way ANOVA showed no significant interaction among grade, reading level and text…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction, Elementary School Students, Readability
Williams, Siovahn Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed in this study was that teachers do not continuously develop self-efficacy as they progress through their preparation programs. One long-standing challenge in teacher preparation is providing adequate opportunities for self-efficacy development. There is a causal correlation between teacher self-efficacy, teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Student Development
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Kelly M. Davis; Danielle M. Kahlo; Bryan N. Cochran – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
School-based Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs have well-documented benefits for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and their allies. However, little is known about what constitutes usual practice in these clubs, nor is much known about the adult advisors who serve as important safe adult relationships for SGM youth in schools. As…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
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Konstantinos P. Christou; Despoina Ioanna Kyrvei; Xenia Vamvakoussi – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
In this study, we investigated how secondary students interpret algebraic expressions that contain literal symbols to stand for variables. We hypothesized that the natural number bias (i.e., the tendency to over-rely on knowledge and experiences based on natural numbers) would affect students to think that the literal symbols stand for natural…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Patricia Buenrostro; Monica L. Miles – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2024
There are complexities in how care in schools is perceived by students and how achieving culturally relevant caring necessitates a deeper level of engagement. This case study delves into the perspectives of thirteen Black and Latiné students attending a justice-themed high school, focusing on their perceptions of caring orientations within the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Latin Americans, High School Students, Urban Schools
Ann L. Mavis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators across the U.S. struggle to provide an equitable education to their diverse students. Since the 2020 COVID pandemic and the national call to end racism after George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis, chronic absenteeism and students' substantial mental health challenges have disrupted their efforts. Schools have struggled more than ever to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Evidence Based Practice, Dropout Prevention, Learner Engagement
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Michael T. Miller – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
All higher education institutions have concerns about their fiscal health, and many have engaged in fundraising practices to augment and supplement other sources of revenue. Community colleges have been slower than their 4-year counterparts to engage in fundraising. Despite enrolling almost half of all students in postsecondary education, they…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Fund Raising, College Presidents, Administrator Attitudes
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Natasha N. Ramsay-Jordan – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2024
Despite ubiquitous calls in existing literature, there are limited research studies on preparing culturally responsive African American female teachers for urban schools serving predominantly African American students. This article reports findings from a case study of two African American female preservice mathematics teachers who were part of a…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Ahmad Fayaz Amiri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study focuses on the pivotal role of an urban elementary school leadership team with a newcomer program. It aims to uncover how school leadership decisions, practices, and policies address the diverse needs of newcomer students. Challenges faced by newcomers, including economic and social needs, cultural adjustments, and…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Immigrants, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
Barbara Czekalski-Simmons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Urban elementary school teachers face many challenges in the classroom. Addressing challenging student behaviors is one of these challenges. Challenging student behaviors, which include disruptive behaviors such as noncompliance and verbal aggression, can impede student engagement, and if students are not engaged, their learning is stymied.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Urban Schools
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Jessica A. Bowman; Yi-Chen Wu; Shawnee Wakeman; Gail Ghere; Holly Johnson – Journal of Special Education, 2024
Separate school placements persist for students with extensive support needs (ESN) despite longstanding federal mandates for all students with disabilities to be educated in the least restrictive environment. This study extends research on separate school placement for students with ESN to explore the potential impact of locale and charter school…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Students with Disabilities, Charter Schools, Geographic Location
Aaron Butler; Weiling Li; Amy J. Dray – Online Submission, 2024
With growing demand for online courses, it is important to assess the efficacy of quality online virtual instruction. This study investigates the impact of Edmentum's Courseware Algebra I on student achievement using data on 1,205 ninth-grade students from a large urban school district in the Midwest during the 2020-2021 school year. Utilizing a…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 9, Urban Schools
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Karen Kortecamp; Michelle Lynn Peters – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
The purpose of this randomized control trial (RCT) was to examine the impact of one-to-one high-dosage tutoring on reading achievement of kindergarten and first grade students, many at risk of reading failure. This nearly two-year study collected reading assessment data from 185 students, from across 13 classrooms, randomly assigned to either the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Grade 1, Reading Achievement
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Meredith L. Wronowski; Bryan A. VanGronigen; Wesley L.C. Henry; James L. Olive – Education and Urban Society, 2024
The use of teacher leadership in PK-12 education has experienced a resurgence since the late 1990s as school leadership models have evolved to include the engagement of diverse stakeholders in school and district leadership processes aimed at improvement efforts. Despite this resurgence, there remain several barriers to understanding the nature of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Leadership, Urban Schools, Barriers
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