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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Urban School Districts"”.
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What works? Supporting students from urban school districts at a Midwestern university
… average 6-year graduation rate of students from urban school districts was 24% compared to the overall 40% graduation rate for the institution. Historically, students from urban school districts enter postsecondary institutions after persevering through school districts and communities that …
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Is There a Difference Between the Degree to Which African-Americans are Studied in Represented Rural, Suburban, and Urban School Districts?
… in a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools. Ninety surveys were distributed in urban, suburban, and rural school districts in western New York. The subjects were classroom teachers who responded to the surveys. The survey was designed to find out how teachers are representing …
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Financing urban schools: predicting fiscal stress in large city school districts
Many large urban school districts in the United States have suffered from fiscal stress, while others have not. Fiscal stress often has led to program cutbacks, layoffs, and decline in the quality of educational services. The purpose of this research study was to examine the predictors of fiscal …
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The Perceptions Of Secondary Education Guidance Counselors Regarding The Scholastic Aptitude Test And Its Relationship To College Admissions For Low Socioeconomic Students
… perceptions of guidance counselors working in urban school districts within Michigan LES communities regarding barriers and challenges created for students by the SAT and its relationship to college admissions. Purposeful sampling was used with semi-structured interviews to examine the topic. …
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THE GREAT DISRUPTION: THE IMPACT OF URBAN SCHOOL TURNOVER ON EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT
… has long been a persistent challenge for urban school districts and their external partnering organizations. To shed light on its impact, a comprehensive study was conducted, focusing on the six strategies outlined in the "Partnering for Student Success: A Practical Guide to Building …
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U.S. school quality: The public benefits of primary and secondary education
… essays focus on the various measurements of school quality and its importance in motivating people's location choices, their interest in school improvement, and their ability to fund additional school expenditures. The first essay examines hedonic housing price studies to dissect the mixed …
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An Investigation of What Parents of Kindergarten Children Would do with and for Their Children Before Entering Kindergarten
… out to parents of kindergarten children in suburban, rural, inner city, and urban school districts. The data were compared and categorized. Two bar graphs were made to show the results. The results of this study suggest that parents of kindergarten children have similar views on what a child …
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Governance Changes in Four Urban School Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Preconditions for Adopting Reforms
There is an almost universal belief that our school system is failing to educate its students. At the same time there is little agreement regarding what the problems are and how to correct them. Many urban school districts are turning to drastic reform measures, oftentimes attempting one major …
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Estimating the efficiency of michigan's rural and urban public school districts
… examined student achievement in Michigan public school districts to determine if rural school districts are demonstrating greater financial efficiency by producing higher levels of student achievement than school districts in other geographic locations with similar socioeconomics. Three models …
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Urban school challenges: Implementation and sustainability of positive behavioral interventions and supports
… pressure to improve the climate and safety in urban schools. Unfortunately, schools have addressed school safety concerns by increasing exclusionary measures such as suspensions and expulsions. Knowing that exclusionary measures can have detrimental effects, state legislatures have called for …
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Effects of Adaptive Learning Technologies on Math Achievement: A Quantitative Study of ALEKS Math Software
… achievement gap in math performance of middle school students. The study is conducted in two small urban school districts in a southern city. The study is a quasi-experimental research design with a sample size of 1110 students in grades fifth through ninth forming a control group and a …
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An analysis of an urban school district's general education intervention to reduce overrepresentation of minority students in special education
… are overrepresented in special education in many urban school districts across the United States. The purpose of this study was to analyze the results of the implementation of policies and training related to the use of a problem solving general education intervention model in an urban school …
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An Analysis For Change Regarding Teacher Hiring Practices Of Urban Districts
<p>This dissertation lays out the ways in which urban and near urban school districts go about hiring teachers in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The concern about why schools are unable to consistently staff schools rests primarily on the basis that teachers leave challenging schools because of …
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The State of Teacher Evaluations in California K-12 Public Schools during COVID-19
… minimal, particularly for California K-12 public schools. This mixed methods non-experimental case study employed a grounded theory research approach to gain an understanding of teacher evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic. To conduct the study, human resource administrators in public school …
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Middle School Academic Performance: An Exploratory Analysis of the Fulton County School District
… that race and economic status have on middle school academic performance in the Fulton County School District. Descriptive statistics were used to critically analyze how these demographic variables affect middle school academic performance. The mean Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT) …
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Impacting teacher mindset through professional development
… higher in historically underserved, urban school districts. This statistic has been true for decades. The Social-Emotional Learning and Mindset Movements have gained recent popularity and teachers are asked to create classrooms that are conducive to students feeling like they belong, …
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Attendance Matters! A Policy Advocacy Document
… problem in our nation, particularly in urban school districts. There have been other studies, discussions, and debates on how to improve student attendance, but identifying a single policy, program, incentive, and/or intervention to positively impact absenteeism is difficult. Student …
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A Case Study of Why Teachers Choose to Remain in One Urban School District
… most from shortages of qualified teachers. Schools with these characteristics are often our Title 1 schools. Staffing these schools can be a very difficult task. Haberman (1987) attributed the shortage of qualified urban educators to factors such as racism, fear, a generally negative …
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Black male teachers matter: Retention and belonging in K-12 classrooms
… male teachers once recruited and hired into urban school districts. More specifically, this study explored the attributes of lived experiences that keep Black male teachers in K-12 classrooms in Memphis-Shelby County Schools in Tennessee with five or more academic years of service. I used a …
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The moral education curriculum and policy in Chinese junior high schools: changes and challenges
… effectiveness of moral education in rural and urban school districts; and their implications for moral education policy change in contemporary China. Quantitative data were collected from 25 Chinese middle schools to explore the effectiveness of moral education in Chinese middle schools. A …
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