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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"school-within-"”.
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Exploring the School-Within-A-School (SWAS) Model
… challenges of modern day learning environments, Schools-Within-School programs are studied. The research has been examined to pinpoint instructional and organizational factors that lead to student success. Specifically studied are Schools- Within-School programs. A thorough reading of the …
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Academic achievement team - a school within a school program: does specialized remediation increase test scores?
… Achievement Program. Those tenets being that a school within a school program devoted to those students who did not successfully complete any of the three parts of the Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment will help them to catch up and successfully pass the High School Proficiency Assessment. This …
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"We Run a Different School Within a School": Educator Perceptions of Guatemala-Maya Students in a North Georgia Public School System
… students in a North Georgia public school system, framed through interviews with educators. The educators selected for this study worked almost exclusively with elementary, middle, and high-school age Guatemalan-Maya students. The perspectives of the teachers are presented in …
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TeacherWork: A Journey to Recast the Reggio Emilia Approach for a Middle School Within the Context of Power, Politics, and Personalities
… of this study was to focus on a teacher-led school reform initiative. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach for Early Childhood Education and committed to constructivist teaching and learning, a group of Middle School teachers embarked on a journey to plan a new way of thinking and being in …
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Teachers’ perceptions of physical education for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder at a special needs primary school within the Cape Winelands District
… Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder at a special school in the Cape Winelands area. Fourteen teachers involved in the physical education programme were purposively selected, and data was gathered through a semi-structured interview process. Findings show that teachers view physical education as …
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An Ethnographic Study of a Literacy Program in a High-Poverty, Ethnically Diverse Elementary School within the Context of No Child Left Behind
… of a high poverty, ethnically diverse elementary school and the transformation that occurred there. The research describes what happened at the school within the context of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during a nine-year period. The researcher documents the challenges faced, practices employed, and …
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Classroom Discourse, Identity, and the Production of Social Space
"Data for this thesis were collected from a school year-long ethnography of a group of 36 high school juniors who were students in a ""school within a school."" The research traced the students and their teachers across their English and history courses. Data collection focused upon audio and …
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Remaining and becoming: Cultural crosscurrents in an Hispano school
… study looks at the relationship between a school in Northern New Mexico and its rural community. By looking at a school within a community, I hoped to understand the community's expectations about the school being a fitting place for their children. Assuming that a school channels choices …
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Perceptions of Four Sacred Heart Heads of School Relative to the Utilization of the Goals and Criteria and Specific Processes in Decision Making
<p>The Network of Sacred Heart Schools advances its education mission through a pivotal document entitled Goals and Criteria for Sacred Heart Schools in the United States (Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province, 2005). The heads of school are the leaders and key decision makers who ensure that …
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An Evaluation Of AVID As A Supplemental Education Program At The Middle School Level
… a supplemental education program at the middle school level that includes a quantitative evaluation of the academic efficacy of AVID utilizing anonymized, longitudinal student achievement data. The second section is a qualitative evaluation of the AVID program at one middle school within a …
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An identification and analysis of the socio-economic challenges children from rural areas face in the pré-university cycle in the Mocuba District, Zambézia Province, Mozambique
… cycle. This research focussed on a specific school within the Zambézia province.
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Experiences of successful returner nursing students
… the lived experiences of success in nursing school within one specific population of nursing students that were at risk for attrition. Findings indicate that the experience of failure, return and subsequent success in nursing school is a very complex journey. Through analysis of participants’ …
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The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on the Achievement of African American Students
… inquiry is at a minority-majority Title I high school within a large urban school district. The district and evaluation school previously adopted a culturally responsive teaching initiative. My mixed-method study captures the quantitative performance of students within the school in teachers' …
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An Evaluation Of The New Teacher Mentoring And Induction Program At A Title One Elementary School
<p> Low performing Title I schools often experience a lower teacher retention rate when compared to schools with higher academic achievement. Vacancies are typically filled with new or inexperienced teachers who leave the school within a few years. To counter this problem, West Creek Elementary …
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Measuring Educational Gains and Setting Consequences: Charter Schooling and the No Child Left Behind Policy
The charter school movement and the federal legislation No Child Left Behind (2001) have put a process in motion through which parents and students can opt out of the established public education system. This thesis is an in-depth study of one Pittsburgh charter school within the context of a …
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Teachers' Perceptions of the Benefits and Barriers About the Use of Technology Within Individual Classrooms
… teachers’ perceptions of the use of technology within individual classrooms and how benefits and barriers in education affect their beliefs. The researcher conducted the study within a public, elementary school within the state of Georgia. A mixed methods approach was used to conduct the …
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School Choice, Opportunity and Access: A Geographic Analysis of Public School Enrollment in New Orleans
… is to identify the extent to which the current school choice policy in New Orleans has afforded students in underserved neighborhoods or city planning districts the opportunity to attend quality schools elsewhere in the city. Though all students in New Orleans have access to schools outside …
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Psychological sense of community in Jewish adolescents of Perth, Western Australia
… between student attending the private Jewish School (Carmel) or another school within the metropolitan area. Participants were recruited from Carmel School, W A Maccabi (Jewish sport club) and by using a snowball sampling technique. The total sample included 167 students (60 males and 107 …
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Understanding Workplace Essential Skills: A Student's Perspective
… Five participants who graduated from a business school within the last 4 years were interviewed twice over a 4-month period to gain a deeper understanding of this relationship. This qualitative approach used semi-structured interviews to elicit stories about their experiences, their relationships …
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