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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Urban students"”.
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Increasing Urban Students’ Knowledge of the College Admissions Process
… need for college admissions advising for urban, minority, or low income students. Urban high school students typically are ill-prepared and uninformed of some of the key components in the college admissions process such as choosing a college, considering academic programs of study, …
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What you know, who you know, where you live: understanding how habitus influences career selections among urban students
… This dissertation examines how low-income, urban, African American students, who attend university, discover and select careers. By examining this process, I attempt to make more explicit the reasoning behind their career choices. Using a phenomenological approach, I investigated the lived …
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An Exploration Of The Perceived Academic Self-Efficacy And Locus Of Control Of Urban Students With Learning Disabilities
… achievement gap between Black and other minority students and their White counterparts has been pervasive. This study, however, reframes the question not by using the White student as a frame of reference against which to make the comparison but by using the Black student himself. Therefore, …
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Opening the gates to foster scholarship for urban students: organizational policies and systemic practices in a high performing high poverty urban high school
… where there are a significant percentage of students of color and low socio-economic groups. The purpose of this qualitative case study, conducted with an ex post facto approach, was to bring to light the organizational policies and systemic practices that allowed a high poverty, high …
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Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
… in the college trajectories of central city students of color. It is projected that by 2018, most jobs will require some postsecondary training beyond high school, placing almost 60 million Americans at risk of being locked out of the middle class because of limited educational attainments. …
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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game
<p>This dissertation explores how urban public school teachers navigate the contradictory social position of having little power over their work and considerable power over their students. This qualitative interpretive study begins from a perspective that is attentive to and critical of both (a) …
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"You are coming with me": A phenomenological exploration of urban speech-language pathologists
… study explored the experiences and practices of urban, school-based speechlanguage pathologists (SLPs). The study focused on the assessment, certification, and service of students in urban schools, a majority of whom are members of minority groups in light of the disproportionality of students of …
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Teaching Nutrition and Health in the Urban-Science Classroom A Blended-Approach to Culturally Relevant, and Problem Based Learning.
… in the field of science. Young people from urban and impoverished backgrounds are less likely to see value or purpose in their science education. For this reason it is my belief that something needs to change in the way we educate urban youth in the field science. This project aims to unite …
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Exploring the Impact of the Implementation of Reality Pedagogy: Self-efficacy, Social Capital, and Distributed Cognition
… on science and technology, it calls for our students to be more science-oriented and involved in science. However, as statistics show, our urban students are not as engaged in science classes, resulting in poor performance in science. With this fact in mind, this study explores a recently …
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Celebrating Diversity in Urban Areas: Embracing Current Events at the Intersection of Social Consciousness and Restorative Practices
Background: Students in urban areas experience great diversity in schools. The data state that 27% of urban students identify as White, 22% as Black, 37% as Hispanic, and 7% as Asian American-Pacific Islander. It is undeniable that diverse, urban demographics play a role in the development of …
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Middle school plunge: a mixed-methods study exploring 6th grade students' perceptions of their transition to middle school experiences and its influences on school achievement and performance for urban youth
Minority students from inner cities care greatly about their education and want to be successful in school (Corbett & Wilson, 2002). This mixed-methods study sought to explore the correlation between urban students' perceptions of their middle school transitional experiences and The Middle School …
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Three essays on the economics of education
… abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Rural and urban schools' performance in Brazil and its impact on access to higher education Recent research on academic achievement in Brazil shows that public school students face strong barriers in gaining access to higher education compared to private …
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The external and internal educational factors that contribute to student achievement and self-perceptions of urban middle school Title I students
… of internal and external factors within the urban school community that effect student self-perceptions and academic achievement, so that programs/interventions are developed to meet the needs of urban students. The internal and external factors identified for the purpose of this study were …
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What is the relationship of two staff development approaches: Early Literacy Inservice Course (ELIC) versus the traditional approach on writing composition performance of grade three students
… writing achievement performance of grade three urban students. The sample population consisted of students in four third-grade classrooms. Two of these were regular classrooms. Two were ESEA classrooms where students scored at stanines three or below on a standardized reading test (Iowa Tests of …
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Migrant children and academic achievement in Shanghai : a PISA study of influential student and school characteristics
… migrant children -- who moved from rural to urban areas -- accounted for approximately a quarter of the compulsory-education students (grades 1 to 9) in contemporary China. In an effort to provide an equal schooling opportunity for migrant students, Shanghai in 2008 opened up local public …
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Perceptions of Care: Self Reflections of Women Teachers of African Descent Who Teach in Urban Settings
… to understanding how to care for low-SES urban students of African descent in educational settings. The women's narratives of their teaching experiences were analyzed to learn about their perceptions of themselves as caring teachers as well as their perceptions of how they practiced care …
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Conservation Knowledge and Attitudes of Missouri Sixth Grade Students: the Missouri Conservation Survey, 1995-1996
The knowledge and attitudes of students toward conservation issues are important to organizations or agencies that invest time and money into development of educational materials. The Missouri Department of Conservation has developed many educational tools to aid teachers in the integration of …
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The Dissipation of Urban High School Students' Post-Secondary Educational Aspirations and Career Planning During the College Choice Process
… literature about the decision-making process students use when making a decision on whether or not to attend college (McDonough & Calderone, 2010), the purpose of this study was to explore urban high school students’ perceptions of the structural factors that may influence their post-secondary …
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Using the Activity Vector Analysis to Determine Teacher Dispositions for Charter School Teachers in Urban High Schools
… Activity Vector Analysis by both teachers and students in two urban charter high schools. The premise of this research was that the five dispositions of assertiveness, sociability, calmness, conformity, and conscious restraint were needed to be successful particularly in teaching urban students …
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