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Starcke, Matthew; Porter, Stephen R. – Review of Higher Education, 2019
Recent scholarly work indicates Black students in K-12 are significantly more likely to be suspended or expelled than their White peers. However, little empirical work exists in the post-secondary environment, raising questions about the discrimination Black students encounter in the university student conduct process. This study explored racial…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Vignettes, Marijuana, African American Students
Reff, Audrey Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
While top down federal policy processes continue to deliver policy as grand solutions to real and imagined problems within the nation's public schools, states continue to churn out their own layers of educational accountability policy. But it is no secret that state and federal policies and programs like No Child Left Behind and Reading First have…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Gingerich, Brenda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Across the United States, student achievement is a concern. The local district under study is not meeting adequate yearly progress (AYP), a standard initiated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which schools are expected to attain to avoid sanctions. The district's students are performing lower than state average on the state's standardized…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Individualized Instruction, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement
Ikeler, Susan I. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has had significant and multilayered consequences for students, teachers, and schools. The purpose of this study was to learn more about the areas of NCLB that teachers support and also the areas of NCLB that teachers see as problematic. The data in this mixed methods study was collected through an…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Sanctions, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Education Next, 2004
Advocates of vouchers believe that public schools facing the threat of losing students and funding to private schools will take the measures necessary to raise student performance. Opponents worry that vouchers will actually leave public schools worse off by draining them of funds and encouraging the best students and the most involved parents to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Competition, Sanctions, Public Schools
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Schwarzwald, Joseph; Koslowsky, Meni; Brody-Shamir, Shlomit – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Based on Raven's (1992) power interaction model, situational and personal variables were examined as determinants of power choice in educational settings. The impact of educational sector (secular, religious), class level, gender and content of conflict on perceived power usage in teacher-pupil conflicts was analysed. A total of 370 elementary and…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Punishment, Sanctions, Social Control