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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"School practices"”.
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School Practices and Student Achievement
… Department of Education realized that some schools were making great gains in student achievement while other schools continued to struggle. The Department conducted a study to identify the practices used by schools showing improvement. Six effective practice domains were identified. The …
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How Canadian School Leaders Perceive Their Capacity To Foster Culturally Responsive School Practices To Influence Student Outcomes
… there is a relative paucity of research on school leaders’ perceptions of cultural responsiveness in the Canadian educational system. Racial diversity among students enrolled in Canadian schools has increased dramatically over the last few decades. The diversity gap between a racialized …
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Empowering Students with Autism: An Investigation of School Practices Through the Lens of the Special Education Administrator
… education administrators employed in three school districts in Georgia regarding the empowerment of students with autism spectrum disorders. Participants were first given a screening survey and later interviewed via telephone in reference to empowering practices present in their individual …
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Student Access to Advanced Placement (AP) Coursework: Principals' Beliefs and Practices
… Placement® (AP®) courses provide high school students an opportunity to be exposed to the rigors of college while they are still in high school. Since school policies play a role in the opportunities for students to pursue these courses, educational leaders must be aware of the ways in …
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"No one reads in our house": Exploring the challenges faced by parents with limited literacy skills when helping their children with school-based reading activities at home
… it is now an expectation within most primary schools in England that parents will regularly listen to their child read. However, statistics indicate approximately one in six adults are unable to read at a functional level; it is likely therefore that a significant minority of parents will …
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A study to determine the current level of implementation of eighteen selected critical attributes of middle schools in the United States
The growth of the middle school movement has been rapid. During the first two decades of middle school growth, 1960-1980, experts in the field of middle school education began to identify the guiding principles which appeared best able to meet the special needs of middle school age youngsters. The …
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A Structural View of Knowledge and A Constitutive View of Knowledge: An Analysis of Reproductive Education Theory
This study is concerned with the ways in which school practices affect the stability and change (or transformation) of existing social relations. The main focus of this dissertation is a critical examination of two debates within reproductive educational theory--structuralism (e.g., Bowles & …
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Blinded by the White: Foregrounding Race in a Language and Literacy Course for Preservice Teachers
… students of Color will comprise 41% of the total school population by the year 2020, with 67% in urban areas (NCES, 2010). Studies show that children of Color are regularly disenfranchised through inequitable instructional, curricular, and assessment school practices (Ladson-Billings, 2009). …
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Jogos lúdicos
… and promoter in the teaching-learning process in school practices, enabling interaction and rapprochement of students among themselves, with the teacher and scientific knowledge, as well as promoting a “rise” in the teaching of chemistry, and, consequently, the “excellence” of the …
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A Deweyan Perspective on Knowledge Producing Schools: Re-creative technologies for communities of inquirers
… is an investigation into Knowledge Producing Schools (KPS). KPS is a socio-cultural change effort that reforms that traditional structures of schooling and the connections between schools and the communities in which schools are embedded. KPS schools attempts, through New Literacies, to bring …
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An Investigation of the Principal's Communication in the Comer School Development Model
… demands that are forcing changes in school practices. In the age of school reform, the principal of the twenty-first century must provide the structure; resources and support that schools need to succeed. Research indicated that successful school leadership makes important …
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Students’ Perspectives Of Positive Behavior Interventions And Supports (PBIS): Examining One School’s Approach
… and Interventions (PBIS) and its effect on school climate. Previous research highlighted a connection between student behavior and school climate. In individual interviews, participants were asked to describe the various factors that influenced their school experience, including their …
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Attitudes and Perceptions of South Korean Elementary School Principals Toward the Inclusion of Students With Disabilities
… of students with disabilities. Among various school professionals, principals have been considered the most significant players for creating successful inclusive schools. This study surveyed South Korean elementary school principals, examining their definition of inclusion, level of knowledge …
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Urban Agricultural Education: Exploring Good Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Youth Into the Agricultural Industry.
… careers. This study examines successful urban School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) programs that have effectively recruited, retained, and prepared underrepresented youth for agricultural professions. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this qualitative multiple-case study …
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TOWARD A MORE JUST AND TRULY INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
International schools have proliferated in the last 20 years. Although one might expect students who attend such schools to represent a heterogenous, diverse population, in reality, many schools have selective admissions practices, and their education has a strong western influence derived from the …
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The School to Prison Pipeline from the Inside Out: Survivor Narraitves
… experiences of two Latino men who traversed the school-to-prison pipeline in the 1980s. The purpose of this study is to investigate how intersecting systems of racism, ableism, poverty, and exclusionary school practices shaped their educational trajectories and contributed to their incarceration. …
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Higher-order thinking in the high-stakes accountability era : linking student engagement and standardized test performance
… exists between student engagement levels within schools that elect to incorporate the Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI)and the integrity with which the treatment was adopted over time. After answering this researchquestion, further statistical tests were performed to ascertain the …
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Inclusive School Climate as a Protective Factor for LGBTQ Youth
… and academic outcomes. LGBTQ inclusive school practices have been identified as a potential point of prevention and intervention, leading to decreased victimization and increased reporting behaviors. While extant literature has illustrated the impact of individual school policies and …
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