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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"public charter school"”.
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Policies And Procedures Perceived By School Leaders To Reduce Truancy In A Public Charter School
… the policies and procedures established by one public charter school to reduce truancy. Eight participants were asked to discuss the policies and procedures of their school, CSS, and how they as school leaders contributed to the success of the school regarding low truancy rates. Student truancy …
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Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts: A Historical Case Study on the Development of the First Elementary Charter School in Virginia
Prior to 1998 charter schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia were non-existent. Students who wanted to be educated in ways alternative to public education would need to seek out private schools or homeschooling. The Patrick Henry School of Arts and Sciences (PHSSA), a year round elementary charter …
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Parent and Educator Perspectives of ASD Learning Environments in Public Charter Schools: A Qualitative Study
… with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at the public charter school of study. Due to the limited research available on parent and educator perceptions and the learning environments for students with ASD within public charter schools, a wide range of literature has been reviewed. This includes …
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Pilot study of WrAP: A video-cued writing program with a computerized assessment component used to enhance the writing skills of students
… comprised of fifteen participants attending a public charter school located in an urban area in North Central Texas. There were ten female and five male participants. The participants were in grades third through eighth. Students were in both regular and special education classes. The …
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Academic Achievement of Students in a Charter Homeschool
A recent development in education is the public charter school as a homeschool model. In several states across the nation, a child may enroll in an independent study program of a public charter school and base his or her studies in the home. This model in the realm of education is called charter …
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Leadership practices amongst traditional public and charter school principals
… in leadership practices between traditional and public charter school principals in Indiana. The first chapter provides the reader with information regarding societal views on the position and the potential for entrepreneurial school leaders. The chapter also describes the impact that school …
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Early childhood teachers’ conceptualization of learning in three different educational public school settings
… a way of interpreting and analyzing data. Three public-school settings located in central Texas were chosen as research sites—a public elementary school, a public charter school, and a Head Start. The participants were four prekindergarten teachers located in central Texas. Teachers’ …
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Educational values and practices of fundamentalist Mormons
… their children in a variety of settings: a public charter school within a polygamous town, private religious schools in suburban and rural areas, “priesthood schools” based on home school models, and in public schools in which polygamists’ children are invisible minorities. They trace their …
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Development and Support of Dual Language Policies
… acquires the second language.</p> <p>Each local school board must implement its own policies to create a dual language program; unfortunately, few, if any, research studies exist that identify how local school boards can implement a dual language program. School districts interested in …
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Investigating the Impact of a Mentor Text Inquiry Approach to Narrative Writing Instruction on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Processes of Fourth Grade Students in an Urban Elementary School
… and difficult challenge facing all students in school. The purpose of this study was to monitor the narrative writing performance of urban students who received explicit writing instruction using a mentor text inquiry approach. A mentor text is a published piece of writing whose ideas, …
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A Comparative Analysis of Reading and Math Assessment Scores of Students Attending Three Traditional Elementary Public Schools and Three Elementary Charter Schools In Virginia
… privatizing education suggest that traditional public schools are not adequately preparing students for college, career readiness, and global citizenship (Lobosco, 2019; Schneider and Berkshire, 2020; Tienken and Mullen, 2016). Charter school supporters believe charter school students perform …
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Perceptions of citizenship through civic action : a qualitative case study of personally responsible, participatory, and social justice-oriented citizenship in 6th and 7th graders.
… studies instruction has been deprioritized in schools. National data show that most middle school students score below proficiency in civics, and research highlights how the lack of authentic civic learning experiences limits students’ ability to see themselves as contributors to their …
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Factors Underlying Students' Conceptions of Deep Time: An Exploratory Study
… 12 eighth and 11 eleventh graders from a public charter school in the U.S. and 12 university students from two institutions enrolled in an introductory geoscience course. Tasks and questions probed students’ understandings of the three factors within and outside a deep time context, and …
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Exploring conceptualizations of reading engagement
… I consider how 31 first-grade teachers at public schools in the Midwest and Northeast who were involved in focus groups to imagine what it might be like to implement project-based learning in their settings conceptualized students’ motivation for and engagement in literacy under the …
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Effects of system-paced and learner-paced multimedia instruction on learners’ vocabulary acquisition
… 71 second-grade students who were enrolled in a public charter school district located in the Southwestern United States. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the experimental conditions. Students in each group were asked to take a pretest (1 week before the intervention), the multimedia …