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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"New York City public schools"”.
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Doing Discipline Different: Evaluating the Implementation of Restorative Justice as An Alternative to Punitive Discipline in New York City Public Schools
… impacted its poor students of color, New York City is committed to transforming school discipline and improving school climate by implementing restorative justice as an alternative. This study is an evaluation of the restorative justice pilot program funded by the New York City Council …
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Bringing Nutrition Education Programs From Outside Sources into the Classroom: The Experience of New York City Public Elementary Schools
… from outside organizations or sources (NEPOS) in New York City public elementary schools. Having NEPOS in schools may augment the nutrition education that is taught in health, science or other classes, and thus help to alleviate public health issues associated with poor eating habits, such as …
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Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools
… through various mechanisms, put in place by the public school district, classroom student behavior, and negative external shocks to the students' living environment. I examine the impacts of various treatments on student short and long run academic outcomes such as math and English test scores, …
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Essays on the Economics of High School-to-College Transition Programs and Teacher Effectiveness
… teacher accountability systems. Using data from New York City public schools, we study the relative predictive power of value-added performance data and subjective evaluations (made by mentors or hiring committees) on teachers' future performance as measured by students' achievement gains.
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Globalizing teacher labor for the knowledge economy: The case of New York City's Caribbean teachers
… children, specifically participants in a 2001 New York City public schools recruitment of teachers from Anglophone Caribbean nations. Their testimonies shed light on at least three aspects of the human costs and benefits of globalizing teacher labor for the knowledge economy: the nexus between …
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Gender Difference in Emotionally Disturbed Children
… primarily for the emotionally disturbed, in the New York City Public Schools. The ratio of boys to girls was 6.5 to 1. A survey was distributed to teachers of such classes with at least one girl attending. Part 1 of the survey consisted of 36 statements on the following topics indicated by the …