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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"School mobility"”.

  1. The Relationship Between School Mobility and the Acquisition of Early Literacy Skills

    Franco, Amy C.University of Toledo2013

    The relationship between frequent mobility and student achievement is complex. While studies have shown that frequent mobility may have a detrimental effect on student achievement, the suggestion that poverty is an underlying cause for poor academic progress has been proposed (Buerkle and …

    ohiolink Repository record

  2. School Mobility as it Relates to Adolescents' Civic Knowledge and School Belonging

    Mackel, Brittany Erin2009

    The relation of school mobility to levels of adolescent civic knowledge and sense of belonging at school was examined using data collected from a nationally representative sample (N=2417) of 14-year-old adolescents from across the United States as a part of the International Association for the …

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  3. The Context of Changing Schools: A Life Course Perspective on Elementary School Mobility

    Montavon McKillip, Mary E.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    Also, a student who moves from a low-resourced school to a high-resourced school is predicted to improve on later math and reading tests, while an accompanying change in the home situation (increase in income and parent education, and/or an increase in student and parent ties with others in the …

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  4. Child- and School-Level Predictors of Elementary School Mobility Among Ethnically Diverse Children in Poverty

    Moffett, Alex

    gmu

  5. Factors Influencing Teacher Mobility in Nigeria

    Irondi, Emezuo OgbonnaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … to either quit teaching, or move between schools. It also compared their attitude towards job change and inter-school mobility with that of teachers in Western societies.

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  6. Evaluating the School Performance of Elementary and Middle School Children of Incarcerated Parents.

    Neal, Melissa F.2009

    … parents are at an increased risk for poor school performance as a specific result of parental incarceration above that associated with their social and economic status. Because parental incarceration may result in a variety of outcomes that can negatively impact school performance including …

    etsu Repository record

  7. Three Essays on Family Economics

    Mai, Hui2015

    … the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of family relocation on various children's outcomes. We extend our discussion to the context …

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  8. An Epidemiologic Analysis of Intergenerational Child Maltreatment

    Galos, Dylan2017

    … records from child protection and public schools to examine: 1) the incidence of IMT; 2) the association between IMT and academic achievement, and; 3) the accuracy of offenders’ self-report of maltreatment when compared to their prior CPS records. Methods: In Manuscript 1, child protection …

    umn Repository record

  9. Immigration Enforcement and Student Outcomes

    Bellows, Laura Elizabeth2019

    … effects on county-level academic achievement and school enrollment. In my second and third chapters, I examine the impacts of another type of partnership between ICE and local law enforcement, 287(g) programs, on achievement, attendance, out-of-school suspensions, and school mobility within North …

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  10. Three Essays on Public Housing and Social Inequality

    Han, Jeehee

    … limited opportunities, including low-quality schools. However, whether the net effect is positive or negative is theoretically ambiguous and likely to depend on the characteristics of the neighborhood and schools compared to origin neighborhoods. In this paper, I draw on detailed …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  11. The Relationship of Mobility, Child Characteristics and School Characteristics to the Academic Achievement of Third Grade Students in a Predominantly Latino District

    Hicks, John Christopher2019

    <p>The high rates of mobility in the U.S. can produce negative consequences for children's academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among math and reading academic achievement, mobility characteristics, student characteristics, and school characteristics in …

    odu Repository record

  12. High School Curriculum Tracks as Determinants of Post-Secondary Outcomes: A Study of Track Mobility and Its Effects

    Morrison, William2016

    … practices: extent, pervasiveness, flexibility, mobility, and locus of control. Of these elements, it is my contention that mobility is most important. A tracking system that does not allow for movement among tracks is not only morally unjust, but also unfit educational practice in a democratic …

    loyola-thes Repository record