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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"urban high school"”.
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A national study of the urban high school principalship
… to obtain the views and recommendations of urban high school principals regarding the principals themselves, their schools, students and communities, and the professional growth needs of the principals. The study will also serve as a resource for the National Association of Secondary School …
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Factors Predicting Academic Success for Impoverished Urban High School Freshmen.
… year for low socioeconomic students in one urban high school. This was an ex post facto study conducted in one urban high school in East Tennessee. The subjects were students enrolled in the 9<sup>th</sup> grade during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 academic school years. Low socioeconomic …
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A Case Study of Reform at One Urban High School
<p>Our schools in America are in crisis. At particular risk are poor and minority students who attend high schools in urban areas. With so many urban high schools failing, reformers have sought ways to improve schools and increase student achievement. Effort toward urban high school reform is …
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Dropout and Resilient Students: A Focus on a Chicago Urban High School
This study concerns interviews of high school persisters, transfer students, and dropouts. The intention of this research was to examine reasons why some students at a Chicago urban high school succumb to the negative influences of their environment and drop out or transfer while other students …
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Two faces of urban high school students: Characteristics of dropouts and persisters
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A study of the clothing practices of urban high school senior girls
… study the content of the clothing wardrobes of high school senior girls – the type, the number of garments, the age of garments, how and when the garments were obtained, and the cost outlay. 2. To study the extent to which the high school senior girl assumed responsibility for the care of her …
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Advisory programs: evaluation of the planning for implementation in an urban high school
A major component of high school reform has been to support small, more personalized school structures, along with other complimentary strategies that enhance teaching and learning as being more likely to produce beneficial results. The major purpose of the small schools movement is to convert …
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The Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of Black Urban High School Youth
… inner city students enrolled in a vocational high school. Analyses were made for differences by class, sex, GPA, SES level, and helpfulness of the school in reaching the students' goals. This investigation attempted to determine if there were relationships among the students' aspirations and …
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Design of an urban high school : the process and product of form generation.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A case study of shared decision making in a large urban high school
… shared decision making was operating in a large urban high school, especially in the administrative areas of personnel, finance, staff development and curriculum and instruction and (2) why shared decision making was operating in the manner it was. A descriptive case study was conducted of the …
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The impact of dance/movement classes on adolescent behavior in an urban high school setting
… been undervalued and overlooked by many public school districts throughout the country. As a result of cutbacks, dance programs in educational settings have become an afterthought. In this study the relationship between dance/movement classes and disruptive behavior was analyzed in a sample of …
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The multiple dimensions of negative attitudes toward school among students in an urban high school environment
… identify the sources of negative attitudes in a high school environment through interviews and journal writing as a basis for qualitative data. A sample of convenience was chosen that included six students with varied characteristics of interest for the study. Students were asked to respond to …
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Student voice: a qualitative case study of teachers' conceptions in a New Jersey urban high school
… in issues that matter to their learning and schooling experiences (Student Achievement Division, 2013). The exclusion of student voice in urban education raises the question about what opportunity exists for students to express their opinions on matters that affect them in schools. Urban …
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The Soul of A School: An Ethnographic Study of College-Going Culture at an Urban High School
The role of school culture in facilitating underrepresented students' access to and success in college is examined in this ethnographic study. The purpose of this study is to examine an urban, public high school's culture in the southeast region of the United States with a high population of …
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A Study on the Relationships Between Participation in Tutoring and Accountability Measures in One Urban High School
… study was to identify relationships between an urban high school*s student participation in an after-school tutoring program and its relationship to accountability measures on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Reading and End of Course (EOC) exams in the 2013-2014 school year. The …
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Experiencing Ethnicity: A Case Study of White, Black, Latino, and Asian Adolescents in an Urban High School
… not represent the range of ethnic groups in the school and do not capture the complexity of meaning associated with those ethnic group identifications. Furthermore, although adolescents attend the same school, their experiences within that particular context vary based on their ethnicity and …
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