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Wright-McAllister, Saedra – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Managing behavior is a challenge at home and school for many families in disadvantaged areas. When students get to school, it can become an increased or heightened problem due to the school managing hundreds and in many cases thousands of students per day and teachers managing on average between 25-30 students during every part of their day. The…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Schools
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Ben-Porath, Sigal – Theory and Research in Education, 2013
The expectation that schools resuscitate civic virtues and create a vibrant civic and public sphere competes with a more powerful contemporary demand on schools, namely, that they generate equal opportunity and mobility, especially for poor and minority youth. This equal opportunity is framed solely in the context of grades on standardized tests.…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Civics, Equal Education, Academic Achievement