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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"school closure"”.
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A Spatial Theory of School Closure: An Examination of School Closure in America
… the primary factors associated with public school closure in the United States during the five year period 2007 – 2012. Specifically, it addresses three questions related to school closures. First, what are the most important socio-economic factors associated with an individual school being …
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School Closure in New York City
School districts and states have increasingly abandoned traditional school reform efforts in favor of simply closing low-performing schools. This movement reflects growing frustration among policymakers with the disappointing effects of previous school improvement policies, and the view that some …
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A case study of high school students affected by school closure
<p>Recent charter school closures in a Southeastern Michigan community have created an influx of displaced students from communities where families are not provided systematic support to make the unexpected transition. The study utilized focus group and individual interviews to collect data from …
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Where Is the CommUNITY? A Qualitative Case Study of a School Closure in an Urban School District
… are a proven strategy for strengthening schools. Across the United States, parents and community members have pressed school boards and district leadership for more transparency and broader participation in decisions about school turnaround. The purpose of this qualitative case study is …
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Community Impact of School Closure: Implications for Access to Socially Valued Resources and Services in an Urban Community
… in Central Bay, California, as Central Bay High School faces the prospect of consolidation or closure. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, the study examines how the potential loss of a longstanding educational institution affects community access to socially …
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Beyond Dissolution and Dispersion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Student Perception as Related to Resiliency
… out that building resiliency in students and in school communities has been a very important topic in education for about the last ten years. Resilience as defined is "the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Henderson, 2004, p. 7). Students from the former Duquesne …
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Quantifying the Effect of Disease Characteristics on the Outcomes of Interventions Using Mathematical Modelling
… to influenza may explain the difference in school closure outcomes between the two diseases.
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The Advantage of Numeric Uncertainty Information For Decision-Making With Two Thresholds
… situations with three options. To investigate, a school closure paradigm with three-option (close, delay, open) was compared to two-option condition (close, open). The results suggest that the advantages for probabilistic forecasts hold across task complexity. Moreover, participants in two-option …
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District Superintendents' Experiences During The COVID-19 Crisis
… a district leader may experience, including school closure, severe weather, school shooting, flooding, student or staff death, and more recently, a pandemic. There is a lack of research concerning how leaders make sense of widespread societal crises such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic. …
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Implementation of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports in the Neoliberal Context in an Urban Elementary School
… is a two-year ethnographic case study of a School-wide positive behavior supports (SWPBS) school leadership team, at an urban elementary school in central New York, during their first two years implementing SWPBS. SWPBS is a framework for implementing a school-wide behavior management system …
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A High Performance C++ Generic Benchmark for Computational Epidemiology
… intervention strategies (such as vaccinations, school closure, etc.). Hence, the model and the computation form a complex agent based system and are highly compute and resource intensive. In this work, we design a benchmark consisting of several kernels which capture the essential compute, …
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State Takeovers of School Districts: A Review of a Case District
Background: School accountability as a reform strategy shows that states and cities are paving the way for school district takeovers across America. Purpose: The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to explore state and federal policies that drive school closures in Texas and to explore …
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Retaining principals in high poverty public schools
The turnover of school principals in high-poverty schools is having a profound impact on student achievement. Principal turnover influences teacher turnover, sustainability of school improvement efforts, and generates increased financial costs to the district. Research cites the demands of the job, …
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A qualitative single case study exploring student persistence and family re-enrollment decisions at an independent day and boarding school in the Southeastern United States.
… a major concern for independent day and boarding schools in the United States. Boarding student retention is negatively impacted by the low enrollment of students in United States boarding schools and concerns about the decreasing size of the larger independent school market (National Association …
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Mount Rogers Combined School: The Experiences and Perspectives of Students and Staff When a Community School Closed
… of students and staff who were affected by the closure of Mount Rogers Combined School in 2010. Mount Rogers Combined School was established in Grayson County, Virginia, by the concerted efforts of volunteers and community members who valued education and considered schooling a top priority for …
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Leading Through Crisis: San Diego County Schools' Response to the Social Emotional Needs of All Students
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented school closures, forcing administrators to take decisive action to radically change the educational system. The imperative to switch to remote learning transformed the dynamics of teaching and learning, leading to both immediate and long-term academic …
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