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Athanases, Steven Z. – Urban Education, 2021
This case study of one small urban California high school enrolling predominantly low-socioeconomic status (SES) Latinx youth and many emergent bilinguals found that a college-for-all school culture, guided by leadership and school vision, was enacted in classrooms as caring, safe, productive spaces promoting college-going comportment. However,…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools, Hispanic American Students
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Nirode, Wayne – Mathematics Teacher, 2018
Twenty years ago when the author was student teaching, he quickly learned what geometry teachers and researchers (e.g., Senk 1985) have long known: High school geometry students struggle with proof. Throughout his career, he has tried to create instructional materials to make proof more accessible to his students. From field-testing materials with…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, High Schools, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction
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Larkin, Douglas B. – School Science and Mathematics, 2016
This article examines the process of shifting to a "Physics First" sequence in science course offerings in three school districts in the United States. This curricular sequence reverses the more common U.S. high school sequence of biology/chemistry/physics, and has gained substantial support in the physics education community over the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science