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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"urban middle school"”.
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Impact of violence exposure on urban middle school students
… sequelae of exposure to violent events on urban middle school students. Participants consisted of 224 seventh and eighth grade students of diverse ethnic backgrounds from McKinley Middle School, located in Flint, Michigan. Students were fairly evenly divided between genders (n(boys)=98, …
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The implementation of restorative practices in an urban middle school
<p>Traditionally, schools have turned to zero tolerance policies when dealing with student discipline and punishment. However, it is argued that zero tolerance policies are not only ineffective, but also harmful to students because the policies hinder schools' ability to be democratic spaces. …
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Mathematics Achievement and Writing Assignments Among Urban Middle-School Students
<p>Thirty-seven eighth-grade students from a middle grade urban school in the southeast served as subjects for the study of whether the inclusion of writing assignments affected mathematics achievement. Total math scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were compared before and after various …
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The Adults Talk Too Much : Interviews With Low-Income Urban Middle School Girls
… academic experiences of low-income girls in an urban middle school, and to understand, from the girls' perspectives, how to improve urban education for their benefit. Study participants included seven girls who were interviewed three times toward the end of their eighth grade year. In addition …
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Conceptual and Procedural Instruction: Mathematical Teaching Approaches And Strategies In An Urban Middle School
… achievement in mathematics in under resourced urban middle schools. The significance of this study is to develop math instructional skills in urban schools that can help bridge the achievement gap between urban underperforming schools and suburban achieving schools. Urban mathematics educators …
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Making meaning of community : a multi-case study of three urban, middle-school teachers
… of meanings and uses of community within middle school classrooms. The following questions guide this study: 1. How do successful, urban, middle-school teachers working with students of color understand the concept of “community” in relation to their work with these students? and 2. How do …
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Perception, practice, and theory : a case study of leadership in an urban middle school
… nature of how leadership works within the school has proven difficult; consequently, many studies have shown little or no effects of leadership on student outcomes and school performance (Leithwood & Jantzi, 1999; Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004). Furthermore, researchers …
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An Examination of a Teacher's Use of Authentic Assessment in an Urban Middle School Setting
Today in urban education, schools are forced to keep up and compete with students nationally with high-stake testing. Standardized tests are often bias in nature and often do not measure the true ability of a student. Casas (2003) believes that all children can learn but they may learn differently. …
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Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Case Study of an Urban Middle School
… selected administrators and staff members in one middle school in a large Texas urban school district. The purpose of this study was to understand the educational experiences and perceptions of selected immigrant students and their mainstream teachers. Following the method of case study design, …
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Teacher Perceptions Regarding Teacher Retention in an Urban Middle School: What School Leaders Need to Know
The new terminology in public school districts is “urban education” which breeds an entirely new scope of needs for public urban school success. Teachers who work in urban schools with large numbers of low socio-economic minority students feel less satisfied and are more likely to turn over; …
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VOICES IN THE HALL: A BLACK MALE STUDENT CENTERED EXAMINATION OF ENGAGEMENT IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ART CLASS
… the experiences and perceptions of black male middle school students in an urban visual art class. Black male students have endured unequal educational outcomes such as dropping out of school at a higher rate than many of their peers of other races (NCES, 2013). Previous studies have shown that …
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The external and internal educational factors that contribute to student achievement and self-perceptions of urban middle school Title I students
… of internal and external factors within the urban school community that effect student self-perceptions and academic achievement, so that programs/interventions are developed to meet the needs of urban students. The internal and external factors identified for the purpose of this study were …
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Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm proud!: a study of successful Black female students educated in an urban middle school
… minority students experience as they excel in school. Black students who contend with such tension may be teased, alienated, or rejected by their peers who view academic achievement as characteristic of White people. In order to avoid the accusation of "acting White," many Black students …
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Urban middle school teachers' efficacy change resulting from Project Adventure's year -long RESPECT curricular intervention: A quasi -experimental design with corroborating data
… Project Adventure's RESPECT Program in raising middle school teachers' efficacy in four northeastern urban public schools.</p><p>This pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study tracked 68 teachers' efficacy change over the course of one school year. Teacher Efficacy (TE) change was measured using …
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The relationship of school-wide positive behavior supports to male students' standardized test scores, office discipline referrals and suspensions in an urban middle school
… of sixth grade boys enrolled at Starlight Middle School, a large, urban school in the Midwest. A comparison was made between pre-, partial, and full intervention data, during three consecutive years of implementation of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) as a Tier 1, Response to …
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The Meaning of Educational Travel in the Lives of Urban Middle School Students in a Low-Income Neighborhood: A Transformative, Sequential Mixed Methods Study
… meaning of educational travel in the lives of urban youth in a low-income neighborhoods. The framework for this study stems from educational travel, culturally responsive teaching, effective middle level education (AMLE), and experiential learning. First, a quantitative phase examined data from …
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Teaching exploratory data analysis using a microcomputer-based telecommunications network
… achievement and attitudes of students from an urban middle school in an east Central Illinois community were observed in order to determine the influence of this teaching strategy.
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Multicultural Literature Curriculum and the Enactment of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
… and examines the pedagogical practices of urban middle school teachers who execute multicultural literature unit plans with students of color. Culturally relevant theory guides the analysis of the teachers’ planning and pedagogy. The data gathered include; semi-structured curriculum …
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