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Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex – Editorial Projects in Education, 2019
Disruptive changes sparked by education technology and other forces are on the radar of education analysts. Even a quick internet search reveals a whole host of articles and organizations focused on educational innovation. But how do educators currently working in schools and districts think about innovation? How much of a priority is it for them?…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers
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Ryan, David – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
For many years educational practitioners have tended to focus on issues within the child for the causes of special educational needs and or disabilities. However, as the field has developed in professional maturity, a more inclusive approach has now tended to look beyond the child themselves, and recognise that often the cause of the child's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Special Needs Students, Disabilities
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Adeyemo, Adeoye; Morris, Jerome E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
An emerging body of research in the sociology of sports has captured how black males' academic identities become subsumed under an athletic identity. This body of research, unfortunately, focuses heavily on black male students at the college or university level and offers little empirical insights that probe academic and athletic related issues…
Descriptors: Athletes, Males, African American Students, High School Students
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Holland, Nicole E. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
African American youth are generally as likely as their peers from other racial and ethnic groups to aspire to earn a college degree; yet, in spite of their aspirations these students remain under-represented in college enrollment and graduation. Part of the disparity between these students' aspirations and the realization of their goals may lie…
Descriptors: Youth, Racial Differences, African American Students, Academic Aspiration
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Spier, Elizabeth; Britto, Pia; Pigott, Terri; Roehlkepartain, Eugene; McCarthy, Michael; Kidron, Yael; Glover, Janis; Wagner, Daniel; Lane, Julia; Song, Mengli – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
Many reasons exist for these challenges in providing adequate literacy instruction within the school context. For example, a World Bank study found an average 19 percent teacher absence rate across Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda; and many teachers who were physically present were not spending their time teaching in the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Brietzke, Maria; Perreira, Krista – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2017
Previous research has linked stress to adverse mental health outcomes among Latino adolescents living in the United States. The mechanism through which this process operates continues to be explored, especially in regions of the country where Latin American immigrants and their children have only recently begun to migrate. Our study aimed to…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Hispanic Americans, Mental Health
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Mann, Michael J.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L.; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Smith, Megan L. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Although an ecological perspective suggests the importance of multiple levels of intervention, most bullying research has emphasized individual- and school-focused strategies. This study investigated community and family factors that influence school efforts to reduce odds of group bullying behavior and victimization. Methods: We used…
Descriptors: Bullying, Group Behavior, Community Influence, Family Influence
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Grace, Rebekah; Elcombe, Emma; Knight, Jennifer; McMahon, Catherine; McDonald, Jenny; Comino, Elizabeth – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2017
Child development for a cohort of urban Aboriginal children was assessed at three time points: 12 months, 3 years and 4.5 years. This paper reports developmental findings and explores the impact of child, family, home and community variables over time. Overall, child development at 4.5 years was significantly below the standardised mean. Female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Cohort Analysis, Urban Environment
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Douglas, Ty-Ron M. O.; Arnold, Noelle Witherspoon – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: The influence of non-school based venues has been historically significant for people of African descent who have often had to buttress their schoolhouse experiences with support from community-based influences. For example, Black churches, barbershops and athletic environments like basketball courts, and soccer and cricket…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Males, Educational Experience
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Stewart, Dafina-Lazarus – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This article is a report of a critical constructivist study of racial identity and performance among 13 Black, traditional-age students enrolled at three different colleges, two historically Black and one predominantly White. The study's approach understood identity to be socially constructed and reliant upon community affirmation and validation.…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Constructivism (Learning), Racial Identification
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Gumus, Sedat – International Review of Education, 2014
Turkey, like many developing countries, is facing considerable problems in terms of low school attendance rates, late enrolment and early dropout of girls in particular. Numerous studies have already been conducted, both in Turkey and elsewhere, to determine the factors affecting school enrolment of boys and girls. Existing studies in Turkey,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Influence, Attendance, Enrollment
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Chen, Yi-Lin – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
The different sorts of virtuous people who display various virtues to a remarkable degree have brought the issue of individualisation of moral character to the forefront. It signals a more personal dimension of character development which is notoriously ignored in the current discourse on character education. The case is made that since in…
Descriptors: Personality, Values Education, Moral Values, Role
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Nikolaros, John – Perspectives in Education, 2015
This paper examines the external contingencies that students with emotional disabilities (ED) experience throughout childhood and adolescence. It presents an in-depth assessment of the impact of external dynamics on the emotional development of students with ED, and considers the school, home, and community support systems. The paper assesses…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Emotional Development, Family Influence, Community Influence
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Gordon, June A.; Liu, Xiangyan – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2015
This research focuses on the predispositions that recent Chinese and Indian immigrant families bring with them to the United States and how these are reinforced by the communities in which they locate. The findings draw from 144 interviews in California. Three themes dominate: positioning through schooling, transnational family, and extended…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Asians, Interviews, Expectation
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Perkins, Tasha – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
In recent reform efforts, school-community partnerships have been touted as a means for promoting student success (Decker, Decker, & Brown 2007; Epstein 2010) and meeting student needs (Hands 2010). Yet, despite any accolades, the motives and results of school-community partnerships are contested. Gary Anderson (1998) points out that…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education, Concept Formation, Politics of Education
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