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Mitchell, April; Lott, Kimberly H.; Tofel-Grehl, Colby – Education Sciences, 2022
Women remain underrepresented in engineering and broadening participation has recently become the focus of education reform efforts. Increased emphasis on K-12 engineering education calls for the design of learning environments and curricula that increase interest and conceptual understanding of engineering work, beginning in the early years of…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Gender Differences
Qingyang Zhang; Rose E. Wang; Ana T. Ribeiro; Dorottya Demszky; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Educator attention is critical for student success, yet how educators distribute their attention across students remains poorly understood due to data and methodological constraints. This study presents the first large-scale computational analysis of educator attention patterns, leveraging over 1 million educator utterances from virtual group…
Descriptors: Attention, Teacher Behavior, Equal Education, Gender Differences
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Dandan Yang; Zhanxia Yang; Marina Umaschi Bers – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background and context: Despite the growing importance of computer science (CS) education, high-quality CS curricula for students in kindergarten to lower elementary grades are lacking. It is also unclear how students from underrepresented groups such as female students, students from low socioeconomic status, and students with disability respond…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Programming
Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata; Kalena Cortes – Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center, 2024
Beginning in the fall of 2017, Maryland severely restricted the use of out-of-school suspensions in grades PK-2. The policy presented a valuable opportunity to examine the effects of state-level discipline policies. This study researched the effects of the suspension ban on student discipline outcomes (e.g., number and frequency of different…
Descriptors: State Policy, Suspension, Discipline Policy, Student Characteristics
Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata; Kalena E. Cortes – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This research uses the implementation of a school suspension ban in Maryland to test whether a top-down state-initiated ban on suspensions in early primary grades can influence school behavior regarding school discipline. Beginning in the fall of 2017, the State of Maryland banned the use of out-of-school suspensions for grades PK-2, unless a…
Descriptors: State Policy, Suspension, Discipline Policy, Race
Pendarvis, Edwina; Wood, Ellen Wallace – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
This case study describes a rural school district's efforts to identify historically underrepresented gifted students (HUGS) more effectively than in the past. The district developed new policy; disseminated the policy with lists of characteristics of HUGS; provided a workshop for first-grade teachers to encourage early referrals; and provided…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Academically Gifted, School Districts, Counties
Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. – Education Working Paper Archive, 2007
Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results, based on both Texas Schools Project (TSP) administrative data and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS), differ noticeably from other recent analyses of the black-white achievement gap by providing strong evidence that…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Racial Differences, African American Students