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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Urban districts"”.
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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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An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Hiring Practices Within High Poverty, Urban Districts
… examines the procedures and challenges that urban districts face when trying to appropriately staff classrooms with qualified teachers. It explores the structures that urban districts use to evaluate one’s candidacy for the position as well as additional approaches that have made others …
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The Effects of Centralized School Assignment on Public School Enrollment
… may be increased retention of students in large urban districts. Enrollment effects of choice frameworks are especially important today, as traditional public school enrollment as a share of total enrollment has fallen sharply since the pandemic. This paper asks whether and how the design of …
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Enriching Urban Thermal Experience: Thermal Pleasure Around Urban Public Places
Positive urban thermal experience depends on both the non-extremity and variability of thermal stress in the built environment. To date, the majority of outdoor thermal comfort research has proposed to mitigate thermal extremes while overlooking the contribution from the richness of thermal …
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What certain libraries and schools are doing towards encouraging and directing the summer reading of boys and girls in elementary and junior high schools
… of cities, it has become a problem in many large urban districts to care for these children, especially the adolescents who find it a perplexing problem to know how to spend their leisure time.</p><p>
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Fostering culturally responsive teaching in an urban preschool: a qualitative case study
… are significantly important for students in urban districts. Early childhood helps set the foundation for learning about school culture. Students who are able to connect their home environment to the school environment tend to do better in their academic setting. Fostering a pedagogy that is …
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A Case Study of Why Teachers Choose to Remain in One Urban School District
… (1987) attributed the shortage of qualified urban educators to factors such as racism, fear, a generally negative perception of what teaching in an urban setting is like, and the low percentage (5%) of faculty in schools of education who have urban teaching experience, which affects their …
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The legacy of African American teachers in Jim Crow Mississippi
… former teachers and students from rural and urban districts across the state of Mississippi. Their responses were analyzed through the lenses of womanist pedagogy, educational capital, and the ideals of prominent early 20th century African American education scholars. In many ways, the …
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The environmental effects of air pollution from the energy sector in South Africa
… monitoring is conducted in various regions and urban districts, there are areas with recognised pollution problems, such as townships, where little or no monitoring has been conducted. Often the resulfs of monitoring programmes were not published, or only available in unprocessed form. The …
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Effective School District Recruitment Strategies of African American Teachers
… hire minority teachers and the challenges the districts encountered in recruiting African American teachers in Georgia. The researcher examined the Certified Personnel Index data from the 180 public school districts in Georgia to determine which districts had at least 5% growth in African …
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Teachers' perceptions of their ability to teach culturally diverse students
… many teachers at public schools in large urban districts in metropolitan areas of underserved and marginalized students are mostly White, female, middle-class, affluent teachers from the Midwest that have little or no training in how to teach culturally diverse, racial, ethnic, and …
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The relationship of biological parent or relative involvement and academic success among special education students
… or if the child's home school district was urban or non-urban. Each city of the urban districts examined was also analyzed. Statistical tests were performed to establish correlation between these variables and GPA scores. The subjects were seventy special education students, aged ten through …
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Teaching Pregnant Students in Public Schools: A Historical Analysis
<p>Public school districts in the United States expelled pregnant girls with impunity until the early 1970s. Although school districts were legally permitted to exclude pregnant girls, urban districts began experimenting with special programs for these girls in the 1960s. Scholarship on adolescent …
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Managing performance through achievement impact presentations
… Despite numerous efforts to improve schools and districts across the country, a significant number of students continue to be left behind. Increased accountability pressures require that district leaders seek ways to monitor achievement and organize systems that promote progress, improvement, and …
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A School for Our Children: A Case Study of a School Closing the Student Achievement Gap
… the No Child Left Behind Act and assistance to urban districts have difficulty with minimizing the student achievement gap. Several recommendations are posited for how school leadership can close the student achievement gap.
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Factors influencing the choices of infant feeding of HIV-positive mothers in southern Ghana: the role of counsellors, mothers, families and socio-economic status
… and grandmothers of unknown status in two urban districts. All infants born to the HIV-positive mothers in both districts had been breastfed. Breastfeeding was initiated any time between three hours and three days following birth. While some of the infants had been exclusively breast-fed, …
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A national study of the urban high school principalship
… to obtain the views and recommendations of urban high school principals regarding the principals themselves, their schools, students and communities, and the professional growth needs of the principals. The study will also serve as a resource for the National Association of Secondary School …
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Running in Place: The Conditions Associated with Principal Transition in Chicago and the Implications for Policy and Practice
… generally keeps more principals than other large urban districts. Still, transition happens here, in all types of schools. When it does, a new principal typically inherits a school where performance already tracks behind on a wide range of metrics, including student attendance, teacher retention, …
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Dissecting the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Rural Response and Way Forward for Nepal
… for Nepal, the focus was largely limited to the urban (high-population) areas. Detailed plans for rural settings were not specifically addressed even though the recent earthquake affected non-urban districts massively. Also, sparse resources, logistical barriers and distance challenges were faced …
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Quality Teachers of English Language Learners: Exploring the Use of a Standards Framework to Improve the Focus of Professional Development for Practicing Classroom and Content Teachers
… (K 12) teachers from 12 rural/town, suburban, and urban districts. Quantitative findings revealed (a) survey respondents, on average, felt underprepared to serve ELLs; (b) there was a significant difference between participants with prior ELL training and perceived preparedness; (c) …
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