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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Urban public schools."”.
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Health behaviors of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
… of African American eighth graders attending urban public schools.
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Variables that Attract and Retain Middle-Income Families to Urban Public Schools
… influx of European immigrants into the cities, public schools became the answer to the poverty and ignorance of the urban masses. Then, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, urban public schools were again called on to educate the many African-Americans who migrated to the …
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Human Resource Management and Black Teachers’ Employee Experience in K-12 Urban Public Schools
<p>National teacher data indicate that publicly funded schools in the United States struggle to retain Black teachers in high-need urban areas and in comparison to other groups (Carver-Thomas & Darling Hammond, 2017). This qualitative investigation employed case study methodology. The case study …
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Third graders speak: Experiences and perspectives of reading and writing in urban public schools
… and writing among third grade students attending urban public schools. The study took place in a large urban district in the Northeastern United States and included two elementary schools, four classrooms, and 24 students. The study was designed and conducted as qualitative research. 24 students …
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Qualities of effective principals in urban public schools : a multiple case study on effective principals.
… among African American and Latinx students in urban public schools is expanding, and principals often lack the important qualities necessary to lead an urban public school. This study addressed two problems. First, the achievement gap among students of color is continuing to expand, mainly in …
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Urban Charter Schools Versus Traditional Urban Public Schools: A Multivariate Analysis of Leadership, Discipline, and Student Conduct
… field closer to untangling the charter versus public school debate, this study compared leadership practices surrounding discipline and the frequency of student misconduct between public and charter schools that reside in urban neighborhoods and serve predominantly students of color. School …
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Why Special Educators Stay: A Phenomenological Examination of Factors Impacting Special Educator Retention in Northern Virginia's Urban Public Schools
… qualitative methodologies to understand why public-school special education teachers of students with low incidence disabilities (SETs-LIDs) remained in the profession. The purpose was to better understand the lived experiences of SETs-LIDs, and it was designed as a phenomenological …
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Exploring math teachers' own classroom experiences with deciding how to respond in the moment to student understanding
… especially among African American students in urban public schools (Cuban, 2007; Davenport & Slate, 2019). Math teachers can support conceptual understanding by recognizing and responding to students’ mathematical thinking as it develops during instruction (Jacobs et al., 2010; Leatham et al., …
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Studying the impact of algebraic intervention in early middle school
… success in algebra and STEM courses in US high schools. The trend of low performance in algebra and algebra-related subjects has prompted mathematics educators to ask several questions about teaching mathematics in urban public schools. How can schools intervene in students' education to promote …
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Building partnerships : public schools as a catalysts for community development
A profile of urban public schools in the United States reveals under-utilized, outdated buildings set in a neighborhood with little or no ties to the surrounding community. A rising trend in urban school reform models is the community school concept where schools serve as centers of communities. …
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Social Capital of Urban School Counselors the Differences in Social Capital Between Counselors From Elite High Schools and Counselors From Public High Schools; and How That Capital Benefits Student Access to Selective Colleges
… capital between counselors from elite high schools in comparison to counselors from urban public schools and examined how that capital benefits student access to more selective colleges. Urban schools that serve more low-income population of students need support that appears to be …
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Exploring the Leadership Practices of Social Justice Leaders at Urban Charter Schools
<p>While by and large urban public schools continue to not serve the needs of all of the students in their communities, there are some school principals who are creating educational equity for all of their students and deserve to be called social justice leaders. This study aimed to expand the …
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The relationship between ethnicity, academic achievement, and perception of school culture of Mexican American and Puerto Rican urban high school students
… surveying 211 high school students in two urban public schools using the Student Background Questionnaire and the Instructional Climate Inventory. The self-reported ethnic affiliation of students in the Student Background Questionnaire was used to determine their ethnicity. The …
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TEACHING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: THE LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGES OF BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS ENACTING ACTIVIST LITERACIES
… the educational experiences of students in urban public schools. The study examined the educators’ life histories and experiences in traditional teacher preparation programs. The goal of this research was to investigate the way teachers’ life histories, including early educational …
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Performing the new public school: embodied narratives in a Chicago charter school
… ethnography locates the emergence of the new public school in Chicago, the charter school, within a cultural imperative for global competence by local government, private-public interventions to stage school reform, and marginalized communities’ participations to achieve educational equality. …
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Urban middle school teachers' efficacy change resulting from Project Adventure's year -long RESPECT curricular intervention: A quasi -experimental design with corroborating data
… school teachers' efficacy in four northeastern urban public schools.</p><p>This pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study tracked 68 teachers' efficacy change over the course of one school year. Teacher Efficacy (TE) change was measured using the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale's (TSES) …
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Navigating the Gaze: Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces at School
… presence and occupy the physical spaces of public schools. Moreover, surveillance cameras and police officers are most often installed in the cities' most under-resourced public schools, and poor, immigrant and students of color are most likely to attend these same schools.</p> <p>In this …
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Pathways to School Success: An Examination of Perspectives of African American and Latino/a Low-income Students
… families who are especially successful in an urban, public school to elicit and gain insights into factors that mediate their academic success, conditions and contexts that nurture these factors, and the process through which these factors mediate their academic success. Utilizing a …
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The Perspective of School Personnel in a Georgia School District Concerning the Recruitment of Minority Teachers
… more minority teachers is even more critical in urban public schools characterized by large percentages of minority students and rural hard-to-staff schools. The purpose of the study was to identify effective recruitment strategies used to recruit minority teachers. The researcher utilized …
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