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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"at-risk learners"”.
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The role of management and leadership in the schooling of at-risk learners
Most schools that serve learners who come from disadvantaged areas and backgrounds face unusually difficult challenges. These schools experience poor performance and disciplinary problems, and teachers lack motivation and commitment
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The application of Machine Learning for Early Detection of At -Risk Learners in Massive Open Online Courses
… (MOOCs) have emerged as powerful open educational learning platforms. MOOCs have been experiencing increased use and popularity in highly ranked universities in recent years. The opportunity to access high-quality courseware content within such platforms, while eliminating the burden of …
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Flourishing in fragility: how to build antifragile ecosystems of learning, that nurture healthy vulnerability, in fragile environments in the Western Cape (South Africa) with at-risk learners
This research is a qualitative, autoethnographic study of antifragility in fragile spaces. It was written using data from Applied Theatre workshops, rehearsals and exercises; as well as questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and open discussions in focus groups with at-risk learners from …
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Exploration of Common Leadership Behaviors Exhibited by Georgia Elementary Principals from High Performing, High Poverty Schools
… to perform many duties which include administrative and instructional tasks. The increased accountability for all students to achieve, including the lower achieving students, has made principals focus on their leadership behaviors and practices. Researchers of various studies on principal …
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The social regulation of literacy through teacher expectations
This study is motivated by the problematic of underdeveloped literacy skills, particularly the reading and writing skills of at-risk learners, and draws theoretical support from Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education linked with the ‘school effectiveness’ theory of teacher expectations. I suggest …
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Experiential education: Understanding the impact of remotely operated vehicles on at-risk student learning
<p>How do educators engage students in the curriculum? State and Common Core Standards determine what to teach; how those standards are taught varies. This research examined a group of at-risk elementary and secondary students using underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) as part of an …
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Causes of school dropout among learners in a rural farm school
… factors contributing to school dropout among learners in a rural farm school. The researcher used the qualitative case study method as a research design. The participants in this study were ten young people between the ages of 16 and 20 who dropped out of school, four mothers of the learner …
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Beyond Katrina, Designing A Unique Charter School In New Orleans: Community, Pedagogy, Governance, Finance, and Bureaucracy
This study is a qualitative, autoethnographic study documenting the process of writing and submitting a charter school application in Post-Katrina New Orleans. The focus of the study is my professional journey to this point, and the journey the charter team. The school's mission and curriculum is …
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At-Risk in First Grade
… effective intervention for meeting the needs of at-risk first graders. When Reading Recovery is not fully implemented in a school, the teacher then assumes responsibility for intervention. This project addresses how a regular education, first grade classroom teacher can best meet the needs of …
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Persistence and Commitment to Teaching: The Stories of Three Suburban and Three Urban Teachers
Abstract This dissertation examines the topic of teacher retention in K-12 urban and suburban schools and sheds light on why highly qualified educators continue to serve in these institutions for extended periods of their careers. A small sampling of classroom teachers from a high poverty urban …
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The Use of Mathematics Dialogues to Support Student Learning In High School Prealgebra Classes
This study explored the use of mathematics dialogue activities as an intervention for low achieving mathematics students. These activities consisted of short scripts that portrayed mathematics students working together to solve problems like those in their lessons. These were accompanied by …
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The Use of Mathematics Dialogues to Support Student Learning In High School Prealgebra Classes
This study explored the use of mathematics dialogue activities as an intervention for low achieving mathematics students. These activities consisted of short scripts that portrayed mathematics students working together to solve problems like those in their lessons. These were accompanied by …
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An Assessment of the Levels of Implementation of Four Response to Intervention Components and Impact on Special Education Referrals in 35 Elementary Schools in the Southeastern Portion of Virginia
… determine the impact of the levels of implementation of four Response to Intervention (RTI) components on the overall special education referral rates of elementary school students at 35 schools. The four RTI components are (a) using intervention teams to problem-solve for struggling students, …
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Words Can Change Worlds: An impact evaluation of Shine Literacy
The recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality reports painted a dire picture of South Africa’s literacy situation: 80% of Grade 4 learners were rendered unable to read for meaning and 27% of Grade 6 …
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
… the policies and practices of special education are openly constructed around a premise of mobility and opportunity, students from low income backgrounds (‘at risk’ youth) are twice as likely to be labeled “special.” Moreover, of all the special educational categories, learning disabilities …
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The Caring Beliefs and Practices of Effective Teachers
<p>Current educational reform tends to emphasize an impersonal test-driven approach to teaching while the present research maintains this reform is inequitable because it neglects the personal component of teacher caring, which is necessary to reach all students, especially disaffected …
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A theory and process evaluation of the Learner Engagement Programme (LEP) implemented by Just Grace NPC
… an after school dropout prevention programme that operates in Langa, a township located in Cape Town, South Africa. Langa is an impoverished township characterised by socio-economic challenges, such as high unemployment, violence, few economic opportunities and poor school infrastructure. The …
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