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Knight, David S.; Duncheon, Julia C. – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
As workforce participation increasingly requires a college degree, ensuring that more students from traditionally underrepresented populations have the opportunity to enter and complete college is an equity imperative. To that end, high school reforms have promoted "college-going cultures" in low-performing high schools through…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Educational Environment, School Culture, Academic Persistence
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Knowlton, Heather M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter discusses the opportunities created by out-of-class interactions. These interactions allow for ego-engaged exchanges between students and professors.
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Teacher Student Relationship
Snellman, Kaisa; Silva, Jennifer M.; Putnam, Robert D. – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
In this article, the authors report on research that shows that extracurricular activities help cultivate the skills, connections, and knowledge that prepare children for lifelong success. They add, however, that low-income students are increasingly being excluded from participating. Struggling with budget cuts and deficits, many school districts…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Low Income Groups, Students, Working Class
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Slessarev, Yuri Vassilyevich; Moisseyev, Vassily Borisovich; Vostroknutov, Evgeniy Vladimirovich – International Education Studies, 2015
This article describes pedagogical conditions of ensuring students readiness for scientific researches on the basis of scientific literature and experience of Penza State Technological University students. Introduction of suggested conditions favors the process of training of highly skilled expert who is ready for generation of new ideas in fields…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Scientific Research, Readiness
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Bharara, Gazal – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
A positive transition to secondary school is pivotal to adolescents' mental health and success. However, the school transition research has mainly focused on transition-related adversities rather than adolescent wellbeing and adaptation. While the disturbing consequences of a difficult school transition are known, little attention has been paid to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Student Adjustment, Educational Research
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Nguyen, Trang Thi Thuy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This article examines Vietnamese bilingual schools' statements of educational outcomes on their websites. Data were gathered from websites of seven schools that were publicly accessible on the Internet. The analysis suggests that the schools purported to provide students with different explicit and implicit outcomes related to language,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Web Sites, Outcomes of Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Voight, Adam; Giraldo-García, Regina; Shinn, Marybeth – Urban Education, 2020
Residential mobility is associated with negative education outcomes for urban students, but there is little empirical evidence for school factors that may ameliorate these effects. One such factor may be civic engagement at school. This study analyzed data from 2,000 urban middle school students to examine the interplay of residential mobility,…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Place of Residence, Outcomes of Education, Middle School Students
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Dymond, Stacy K.; Rooney-Kron, Magen; Burke, Meghan M.; Agran, Martin – Journal of Special Education, 2020
This study investigated the relation between grade level, support needs, and use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and the participation of secondary age students with intellectual disability in school-sponsored extracurricular activities. Participants were special education teachers with at least one student with an intellectual…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Characteristics, Students with Disabilities, Student Participation
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Taskiran, Ayse; Gumusoglu, Eylem Koral; Aydin, Belgin – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Education in 21st century is dominated by the generation of digital natives who are greatly exposed to and participate in technology in their social and educational lives. There is no doubt that anything experienced in social life directly affects learners' educational experiences. Highly popular social networks are being used in almost every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
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Luecke, Julie C. – Improving Schools, 2018
This article presents a framework for Gender Facilitative Schools advocating safe schools for transgender, gender expansive, and questioning children. This framework was constructed on the bases of a qualitative study of a transgender student with experiences in both gender restrictive and gender facilitative elementary schools and supporting…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Gender Bias, Educational Environment, Homosexuality
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Scheffel, Tara-Lynn; Cameron, Claire; Dolmage, Lindsay; Johnston, Madisen; Lapensee, Jemanica; Solymar, Kirsten; Speedie, Emily; Wills, Meagan – Reading Horizons, 2018
This paper highlights the two-year journey of an extra-curricular book club for teacher candidates as they explored children's literature in order to further their teaching practice. Initial themes were confirmed and refined as the journey of the book club concluded after two years. A sociocultural theoretical framework guided this work and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Books, Clubs, Preservice Teachers
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Chilvers, Lucy; Waghorne, Joseph – Journal of Peer Learning, 2018
Developing University graduates' employability is of increasing strategic institutional focus in the UK. Existing research evidences the role of Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) in supporting students to develop personal, professional and employability skills. This research explores the impact of the PASS Leader role on graduates' job…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Leadership Role, Job Skills
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Klerfelt, Anna; Stecher, Ludwig – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
In Sweden and in Germany, an extensive system of extended education programmes and activities has been established within the last decades. Prototypic examples of this development are school-age educare centres in Sweden and all-day schools in Germany. In this article a bi-national comparison, aiming to find some similarities and differences by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Extended School Day, Educational Change
Dees, Ashley Baltuch – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Incoming first year students have varying expectations for their college experience. As Florida public education budgets are more closely aligned with student persistence and graduation rates, it is vital institutions retain more first time in college students. The purpose of this study was to better understand how first year student college…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Expectation, Academic Persistence, Public Colleges
Keaton, Whitney G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The student perspective in research done in online and STEM education is largely absent but is important for understanding how both of these areas can come together to best serve students. This study uses teacher ratings, school data and student interviews to investigate the perceptions students in online STEM courses have of their past and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Online Courses, Student Behavior, High School Students
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