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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"school policy"”.
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School Policy, Food and Physical Activity Environment, and Childhood Obesity
… of this study is to examine the effect of school food and physical activity environments on energy balance-related behaviors and Body Mass Index (BMI) and to simulate the effect of school-based nutrition and physical activity policies on childhood obesity prevention. Four models based on …
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Exploring Experiences of Unofficial Actors in the Farm to School Policy-Making Process
The farm to school movement is partially supported by unofficial actors in the policymaking process who promote legislation to encourage activities such as local procurement, school gardening, and agricultural education. However, farm to school legislation can vary in its level of effectiveness and …
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Politicizing Equity: Ghana’s Free Senior High School Policy and its Implications for Teachers Work
… Government of Ghana adopted a Free Senior High School Policy (FSHSP) to universalize secondary education access across the country by removing cost barriers. The policy originated as a campaign promise by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and has since dominated political debates. While FSHSP …
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Home School Students and the IHSA: An Analysis of Current Suburban Chicago High School *Policy
… indicate that currently a small number of home school students are seeking participation in IHSA programs. No full-time home school students were identified that are involved in athletics. In summary, the adoption of by-law 3.011 has had no effect on the participation levels of full-time home …
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Examining charter school policy and public school district resource allocation using multiple quasi-experimental designs
… examinations of the relationship between charter schools and public school districts and district-run public schools. Charter schools, publically funded and privately run, are thought to improve performance in district-run public schools through a variety of forces. This project focuses on the …
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The role and task of the teacher in school management with reference to the Dzondo Circuit
This study focused on the role of the teacher in School Management in Dzondo Circuit of region three. This study dealt with the important factors like; the planning role of the teacher, the organization role of the teacher, as well as discipline in schools. The empirical findings revealed that …
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The Changing Roles of School Personnel as a Result of the Professional Negotiations Act in the State of Washington
… study attempted to determine if participants in school policy making feel that there have been significant changes in their roles as a result of the professional negotiations law in the state of Washington.
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Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia
… adopts a transdisciplinary approach to study schools as sites of language policy implementation. Contributions of language policy, TESOL and multilingual education, and linguistic anthropology help understand the role of teachers in language education. Of particular interests are teachers’ …
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A study of an empowered school: An investigation of the development and the effect of a teacher empowerment process
… of the study is to describe the evolution of a school's advisory teacher empowerment process, to present an illustrative example of its use, and to investigate the effect of its use to propose school policy designed to solve for interruption to allotted instructional time due to the school's use …
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Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net: Net-widening, net-deepening, and the cultural politics of school discipline
School safety is widely recognized as an ongoing problem in United States public schools. Guided by the New Right, the school safety problem has been framed as an issue of school crime, violence, and student misbehavior that is best mitigated by zero tolerance policies. This stance has emerged as …
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Understanding the Leaking Pipeline: The Effects of Self-Efficacy and Student Choice on High School Mathematics Preparation and STEM Matriculation
… Using demographic, academic, attitudinal, and school policy data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) for over 14,000 students from a nationally representative sample, this research tests a model of mathematics course taking and selection of a STEM field linking social …
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The role of principals in managing curriculum change
… seen by educators as bringing about change in schools. On the basis of views from respondents, the study concluded that principals were viewed as facilitating curriculum changes, through such areas as consultation, participatory decision-making, team-building, school policy and vision. However, …
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To What Extent Do General Education Elementary Teachers Perceive They Are Prepared To Teach Students With Disabilities?
… and more education on special education law, school law, Free and Appropriate Public Education, and school policy.</p>
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Impact of Student Voice in the (Dis) Engagement of Middle School Students in Urban Elementary School and Academic Achievement
… engagement, and academic outcomes among middle school students in an urban elementary school. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Ladson-Billings), Culturally Responsive Teaching (Gay), and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (Paris & Alim), the study addresses …
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Tools For School: Student Fluency And Perception Of Cell Phones Used For Learning
… in most every aspect of their daily lives. Most schools enforce current policies banning cell phone use within classrooms during the school day. </p> <p> The purpose of this study was to investigate current high school junior and senior academic standing students' mobile cell phone technology …
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Trauma-Informed Educational Leadership: A Case Study
… and facilitation of Trauma-Skilled Schools (TSS) in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context. This study details the unique challenges and opportunities experienced while planning and executing TSS, aiming to equip school staff to better address trauma-affected behaviors. Utilizing case …
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The initial construction of a roasting measure and examination of the associations among roasting, verbal bullying, social anxiety, and depression
… provide insight into the bullying behavior of school-age youth is roasting. Roasting and verbal bullying are not identical, but the possibility of internalizing and externalizing problems having statistically significant associations with roasting, along with roasting possibly being an omitted …
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