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Price, Joseph; Price, Joshua – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2006
Although extensive research exists on the publishing success of academics, few studies have examined factors influencing the publishing success of graduate students and young academics. Data from a survey of 12,000 graduate students in the Humanities and related social sciences was used to examine citizenship, gender and racial/ethnic differences…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Citizenship, Social Sciences, Racial Differences
Storey, Valerie A.; Beeman, Tom – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
New DEEL does not refer to a specific policy or reform, but rather to an ideology, unencumbered by international borders and domestic politics. In this paper, we first endeavor to identify the rhetoric of New DEEL and social justice, and the reality of its implementation in schools today; spending time on the NCLB Act which we postulate is a major…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Instructional Leadership, Ethics, Ideology
Howery, Carla B.; Rodriguez, Havidan – Teaching Sociology, 2006
The NSF-funded Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) Project undertaken by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Social Science Data Analysis Network sought to close the quantitative literacy gap for sociology majors. Working with twelve departments, the project built on lessons learned from ASA's Minority Opportunities through School…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Educational Change, Sociology, Data Analysis
Burris, Carol Corbet; Wiley, Ed; Welner, Kevin G.; Murphy, John – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background: This longitudinal study examines the long-term effects on the achievement of students at a diverse suburban high school after all students were given accelerated mathematics in a detracked middle school as well as ninth-grade "high-track" curriculum in all subjects in heterogeneously grouped classes. Despite considerable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education
Wang, Jianjun; Zhu, Chunying – School Science and Mathematics, 2003
Middle school data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are analyzed in this article to compare achievement difference between seventh and eighth grades. The statistical computing involves a selective subtraction of item scores in more than 40 countries. The research findings indicate that not all TIMSS items have…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Grade 7
Birenbaum, Menucha; Nasser, Fadia; Tatsuoka, Curtis – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
A diagnostic methodology for large-scale assessment was employed to compare performance on a national test in mathematics of representative samples of Jewish and Arab 8th graders in Israel in order to shed light on a previously identified large achievement gap between these 2 populations. The results revealed significant differences between the 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Measurement
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2007
Commission reports show that females outnumber males in college enrollment and graduation, both nationally and in California--a gap that continues to widen, especially for males in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. Recent Commission research described this disparity and how it varies by race/ethnicity, academic discipline, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Males
Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Winter, Laurie Leiker; Keetle, Susan; Jackson, Clarissa – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2007
A diverse, Midwestern, high-poverty urban school district, under the guidance of a university reading professor with expertise in research-based instruction and reading intervention, began a professional-development initiative that resulted in improved reading achievement for its students. This article presents the background, rationale, and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Association for Children of New Jersey, 2006
This is the 2nd "New Jersey City Kids Count," a snapshot of child well-being in New Jersey's largest and poorest cities. The report serves to measure progress and challenges in the cities where most of New Jersey's poorest children are growing up. The Association for Children of New Jersey, with funding from the Annie E. Casey…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Child Health, Urban Youth
Schmidt, Jeffrey K.; Lemke, Melissa – Public Policy Forum, 2006
Public schools can be considered a form of workforce development, and thus it is important to measure the "work product" of the schools. The Public Policy Forum's annual analysis of public schools in the 50 districts serving southeastern Wisconsin measured absenteeism as educational opportunities lost because children were not in class.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Taxes, State Aid, Expenditure per Student
Garcia, Eugene E.; Jensen, Bryant; Cuellar, Delis – New Educator, 2006
Hispanics account for over one-fifth of newborns in the United States, and Hispanic children, on average, achieve at much lower levels from kindergarten forward than the non-Hispanic white majority and Asian Americans. One of the most important educational challenges for the U.S. is to increase markedly the percentage of Hispanic children who…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement, Young Children, Kindergarten
Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2004
This report takes a look at the issues concerning racial segregation and educational outcomes in Metropolitan Boston. Despite the fact that metro Boston is overwhelmingly white, its public schools are highly segregated by race and language. Segregated minority schools in metro Boston are profoundly unequal, with high poverty levels, with lower…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Outcomes of Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Metropolitan Areas
Dilworth, Mary E.; Ardila-Rey, Alicia – American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2004
The nation's culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) classrooms face a critical shortage of high-quality teachers. Representatives from dozens of major national educational associations and institutions convened September 24-26, 2003, at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, to grapple with this issue. The conference marked…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Student Diversity, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Effectiveness
Gamble, Cheryl – Community College Journal, 2004
This year people celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, "Brown v. the Board of Education." A half-century after the Supreme Court found that segregated schools are "inherently unequal," there is much research to support the Court's decision. However, 2004 finds the U.S. educational system becoming more segregated…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Court Litigation, African American Students, Hispanic Americans
Kentucky Department of Education (NJ1), 2008
The Kentucky System of Intervention (KSI) is a framework for providing systematic, comprehensive services to address academic and behavioral needs for all students, preschool through grade 12. The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has developed this guidance document to provide resources in planning and decision making as districts and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Decision Making, Guidance