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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"high expectations"”.
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School Climate Indicators and Academic Achievement: An Investigation of Vulnerable Subgroups
… were recorded in the following three domains: high expectations, caring adult relationships and social emotional supports. In addition, for each school in the study, the percentages of fifth-grade students in specific racial/ethnic subgroups (African American, Asian, Hispanic and White) and the …
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The Addisonians: The Experiences of Graduates of the Classes of 1963-70 of Lucy Addison High School, An All-Black High School in Roanoke, Virginia
Lucy Addison High School was an all-Black high school located in Roanoke, Virginia. All-black high schools are defined in this study as high schools that were segregated by race and attended only by Black students. Lucy Addison operated as an all-Black high school from 1928 until 1970 in two …
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Mitigating Risks for Youth in At-Risk Living Conditions Through School-Based Protective Factors
… between students and adults are established, high expectations are held for the students, and students are given an opportunity for meaningful participation, are environments in which youth can thrive despite having faced adversity. There is a dearth of literature delineating school-specific …
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Teaching Toward Student Interest in an Algebra Classroom
… informed variation and holding students to high expectations regardless of diversities.
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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
… policies and systemic practices that allowed a high poverty, high performing urban school with a large concentration of students of color and low socio-economic students to succeed in a manner that can be translated into effective practices for other schools with the same or similar …
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A Qualitative Assessment of the Perceptions of Teachers Concerning How Economically Disadvantaged Students at White Pine School Are Being Served
… of poverty to build confidence; teachers high expectations from teachers; importance given to enrichment opportunities; teaching strategies focused on active learning; assignment of small, meaningful doses of homework; limited tutoring opportunities; and use of multiple data-collection …
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The Characteristics of School Culture that Influence College-Going Rate for High School Graduates in Northeast Tennessee.
… culture that influenced college-going rates for high school graduates in northeast Tennessee. The study involved one-toone interviews with selected high school teachers and principals. Six high schools in northeast Tennessee were used in the study.</p><p>The significance of this study was to …
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Promoting And Selecting Culturally Relevant Teaching Materials And Pedagogy In Our Schools
… belief in positive relationships, and have high expectations for themselves, in order to succeed in life.
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Making the grade : behaviors of elementary principals leading high poverty "A" rated schools
… in K-5 elementary schools in Indiana in high poverty, high-performing schools. In an effort to focus on a set of administrative behaviors, Marzano, Waters, and McNulty’s (2005) work was the foundation for this study. Their meta-analysis occurred across schools and districts of a variety …
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Marital Expectation Fulfillment and its Relationship to Height of Marital Expectations, Optimism, and Relationship Self-Efficacy Among Married Individuals
… literature is clear that individuals report higher marital satisfaction when their expectations are fulfilled in marriage, but there is disagreement in the literature as to what role height of expectations plays in expectation fulfillment. Further research in this area was needed to clarify …
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An Evaluation of One School's Reading Program to Support Struggling Readers Through the Use of Data
… ability to instruct struggling readers with high expectations for student learning. As a result, this evaluation exhibit teachers require more quality planning time to prepare effective reading intervention lessons that includes strategies attained from strategically designed professional …
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Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions of Administrator Influence on Teaching and Learning
… developed from the data collected were culture, high expectations, visibility, and resource awareness. Culture was defined as the administrators’ ability to establish a positive learning environment focused on what is best for every child. High expectations as a theme were interpreted as an …
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ENSURING A HOLISTIC AND QUALITY EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY OF PRINCIPALS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
… exams (EOC) and whose schools consistently show high academic performance year-to-year in a Texas urban area were selected to participate in the research. The impact the study has on principals could lead to principal retainment, improvement of student achievement, and trials of better practices …
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Overcoming Obstacles: Development of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy through an Ethnographic Lens
… challenges. I have learned that students demand high expectations for engaging instruction. The following is an ethnography about my experience as a first year teacher. I will be explaining my perspective on how I interpret the observations I took of my students and the community I serve. …
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Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study
… assuming a more indirect role, and setting high expectations.
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Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
… as a whole.1 This has been welcomed with high expectations from the civil society.2 However, negotiations on an international multilateral level require compromise, and compared to the ideal of a Court with unlimited resources and jurisdiction, the final form of the ICC does not seem to be …
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Speaking the Unutterable: White Teachers and Black Children
… experiences of four White teachers teaching in a high-minority school in Macon, Georgia. Emily, Deanna, Richard, and I have crossed racial boundaries to establish successful teaching careers as White teachers working with Black students. Using a curriculum of place (Casemore, 2008; Kincheloe & …
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Parental Expectations for Asian American Men Who Entered College Early: Influences on their Academic, Career, and Interpersonal Decision-Making
Asian immigrant parents often hold high expectations for their children to excel academically and professionally. Filial piety and the desire to make their parent(s) proud can motivate these children to achieve but can also place undue pressure upon them. This mixed methods dissertation study …
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Divorced co-parenting in rural communities: Understanding perceptions of parental quality from a socio-cognitive-behavioral perspective
… Parent Satisfaction Scale. Parents with high expectations of co-parenting had low co-parenting communication and low co-parenting satisfaction. Resident parents had stronger beliefs about expectations as well as greater satisfaction with their co-parenting role when compared with …
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