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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"School-within-a-School"”.
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Exploring the School-Within-A-School (SWAS) Model
… challenges of modern day learning environments, Schools-Within-School programs are studied. The research has been examined to pinpoint instructional and organizational factors that lead to student success. Specifically studied are Schools- Within-School programs. A thorough reading of the …
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Academic achievement team - a school within a school program: does specialized remediation increase test scores?
… Achievement Program. Those tenets being that a school within a school program devoted to those students who did not successfully complete any of the three parts of the Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment will help them to catch up and successfully pass the High School Proficiency Assessment. This …
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"We Run a Different School Within a School": Educator Perceptions of Guatemala-Maya Students in a North Georgia Public School System
… students in a North Georgia public school system, framed through interviews with educators. The educators selected for this study worked almost exclusively with elementary, middle, and high-school age Guatemalan-Maya students. The perspectives of the teachers are presented in …
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Classroom Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Social Space
"Data for this thesis were collected from a school year-long ethnography of a group of 36 high school juniors who were students in a ""school within a school."" The research traced the students and their teachers across their English and history courses. Data collection focused upon audio and …
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Factors in the High School Setting That Shape Teachers' Perspectives on Professional Collaboration
… teaching practice in a traditional high school. The school in this case study has many instances of voluntary and assigned teacher collaboration, and it houses a school-within-a-school, a career academy, wherein the instructional model requires extensive collaboration. This research study …
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Examining the Effectiveness of a Site-Based Alternative Education Program for At-Risk High School Students
… alternative education program for at-risk high school students with regard to improving academic success, attendance, and behavior. A second purpose was to ascertain student perceptions of the program and perceptions of components that were most effective in providing support for at-risk factors …
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More than just a number: student and educator perceptions about the transition to ninth grade
… & Graham, 2009). Some students enter high school more prepared to meet academic and social challenges, while others have not matured enough to realize success (Graber & Brooks-Gunn, 1996; Steinberg, 2011). This lacking in maturity leads to high numbers of behavior problems and failures in …
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STEM Program Implementation: A Case Study Analysis of Perceptions, Resources, Equity and Diversity
… parents of the implementation of an elementary school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) academy program that featured characteristics of both magnet school programs and schoolwithin-a-school programs. I conducted interviews of key personnel, informed by classroom observations and …
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Influence of a Collaborative Norming Process on Teacher Perceptions of Middle Level Team Structure and Development
… level philosophy and education since the middle school movement began in the 1960s. The literature on teaming is quite extensive and the interpretations of that research often differ among schools. For the purpose of this study, teaming is defined as a small group of teachers with different …
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Principals' perceptions about the transition from traditional to year round education in North Carolina
… Carolina. Data was collected which dealt with school operations in a YRE setting. A questionnaire designed to answer seven research questions was used in this study. Part I of the questionnaire gathered school demographic data from the principals. Part II was a fixed response section of the …