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Download full textMac Iver, Martha Abele; Wills, Kellie; Sheldon, Steven; Clark, Emily; Mac Iver, Douglas J. – School Community Journal, 2021
Improving ninth grade course passing rates has been shown to be crucial in improving high school outcomes. Yet at this critical transition to high school, family engagement has tended to decrease. This study explores how increasing use of the parent portal could potentially help to reduce ninth grade failure. Using automatically generated…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Family Involvement, Academic Failure, Academic Achievement
Direct linkMac Iver, Martha Abele; Wills, Kellie; Sheldon, Steven; Clark, Emily; Mac Iver, Douglas J. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Improving ninth grade course passing rates has been shown to be crucial in improving high school outcomes. Yet at this critical transition to high school, family engagement has tended to decrease. This study explores how increasing use of the parent portal could potentially help to reduce ninth grade failure. Using automatically-generated…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Family Involvement, Academic Failure, Academic Achievement
Archbald, Doug; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth N. – High School Journal, 2012
Educators and researchers have long been interested in determinants of access to honors level and college prep courses in high school. Factors influencing access to upper level mathematics courses are particularly important because of the hierarchical and sequential nature of this subject and because students who finish high school with only lower…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Schools, Predictor Variables, Prediction
Burstein, Marcy; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Petras, Hanno; Ialongo, Nicholas – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
The present study examined the developmental trajectories of youth depression and anxiety symptoms from 6th through 12th grade in a low-income, urban sample (N = 141; mean age = 11.75 years; 88.7% African American). The study also tested the independent contribution of parent mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and substance use disorders assessed…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Parents, Depression (Psychology)
Altschul, Inna; Oyserman, Daphna; Bybee, Deborah – Child Development, 2006
Three aspects of racial-ethnic identity (REI)--feeling connected to one's racial-ethnic group (Connectedness), being aware that others may not value the in-group (Awareness of Racism), and feeling that one's in-group is characterized by academic attainment (Embedded Achievement)--were hypothesized to promote academic achievement. Youth randomly…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Academic Achievement
Dougherty, Chrys; Mellor, Lynn; Jian, Shuling – National Center for Educational Accountability, 2006
This study explores the relationship between college graduation rates and student participation and success in Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams. We reviewed three approaches to examining this relationship: 1) comparing the college graduation rates of AP and non-AP students; 2) comparing the college graduation rate of AP and non-AP…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Graduation Rate, Student Participation, Academic Achievement
