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Showing 1 to 20 of 302 for “"African American Students"”.
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Code-Switching and Sentence Imitation by African-American Students
1 PDF file (106 pages)
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What works? Teaching African American students in urban schools
<p>The academic achievement gap for African American students compared to their White counterparts has historically and currently remained significant. Many researchers have been prompted to address this issue by examining the practices utilized to teach African American students. The findings from …
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Mattering and marginality among African American students at Rowan University
… services, and in which of these dimensions students felt they mattered or were marginalized most. Further, this study sought to determine if there was relationship between the dimensions of the institutional environment. Lastly, the study aimed to find out if there was a statistical …
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African American Students' Perceptions of Teacher Care and Their Academic Achievement
Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… within learning progressions for groups such as African Americans that have been traditionally excluded from science and STEM. This study argues that an equity oriented learning progression should be responsive to sociohistorical factors of epistemic injustice that dissociated African Americans …
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Factors that Influence the College Choice Process for African American Students
There has been a slight increase in African American enrollment in higher education in the 30 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act. However, minority students are not represented in higher education in numbers proportionate to their representation in the general population. African …
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Students’ Perceptions And Experiences: African American Students In Band And Orchestra Programs
… of this mixed-methods study was to explore how African American students in a South Carolina metropolitan area perceived their experiences in band and orchestra at their middle school. Fifty-one sixth through eighth grade students responded to an inventory that measured students’ predisposition …
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Expanding AP Enrollment for Hispanic and African American Students: Change Leadership Plan
<p>American education has historically failed to provide Hispanic and African American students with equal opportunities, evidenced by the long-standing underachievement of these students when compared to White counterparts. To provide all students with access to rigorous educational programs, many …
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Leadership that Fosters a Culture of High Achievement of African American Students
… to the culture of high student achievement of African American students. The sample included teachers and principals working in five elementary traditional theme schools with predominately African American populations in one urban school district in the Southeastern United States. The …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… potential sources of underrepresentation African American children in gifted education programs. The differences in oral narration among 50 students in general and gifted education programs, grades two through five, were investigated. Students produced audiotaped oral narratives based on a …
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The recruitment and retention of African American students in vocational teacher education
The research on the recruitment and retention of African American students into vocational teacher education indicated that there was a need for institutions of higher education to take a more serious look at these efforts. This admonition was due to the continuous decline of African Americans in …
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The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on the Achievement of African American Students
… frames of reference, and performance styles of students to make learning encounters more relevant and effective. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of culturally responsive teaching on the academic achievement of African American students. The context of this inquiry is at a …
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Perceptions of African-American Students Who Dropped Out of Decatur School District 61
… on dropouts, providing an understanding of why African-American students drop out of school prior to graduation.
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Midwestern suburban elementary African American students’ perceptions of race and sense of belonging
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Critically measuring equity in high schools and its impact on African American students
… the goal to provide a quality education to all students is undermined by a largely uncritical discourse that fails to adequately identify, acknowledge, and address the ways that education systematically fails African Americans and other marginalized students. Rather than focus on inequities, …
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Advising styles preferred by African-American students enrolled in a two-year commuter college
… for advising relationships among college students, a model of developmental advising was formulated by Winston and Sandor (1984b). However, because of the increased numbers of special student populations such as women and minorities, it is difficult to ascertain the extent to which …
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An Ethnographic Case Study Examining the Experiences of African American Students with Nonresident Fathers
… as it involved meeting the paternal needs of students.
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