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Samantha Lukey; Lynne Keevers; Chye Toole-Anstey; Jodie Stewart; Steven Dodd; Lisa MacLeod – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This systematic review reports evidence on practices and programmes that enhance successful primary-secondary school transition and participation for Indigenous students in Australia. A thematic analysis found three sets of practices: the school context; bridging practices; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students cultural recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Indigenous Personnel, Transitional Programs
Jermaine Gleaton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The effects of transitions impact students across academic levels in many ways. The transition to high school can be a vulnerable time; moreover, it may be an optimal time for preventive interventions. As students matriculate and transition from middle to high school, a concentrated effort must be made to improve the practices to best support…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Middle School Students, Transitional Programs
Kyle Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores to what extent principals perceive "instructional program coherence" (IPC) and vertical collaboration occur in high schools and their mid-level feeder schools. It also measures IPC and its five components' association with different measures of student achievement. The study took place in the state of Missouri, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Transitional Programs, Principals, Instructional Development
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Lu, Charles; Milligan, Shannon – New Directions for Student Services, 2023
Authors discuss how to utilize culturally engaging campus frameworks, tools, and practices in summer bridge programs to increase access and success for racially minoritized students.
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, College Bound Students, Higher Education
Brittney Diane Parker-Goodin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the transition planning experiences of Black and Latinx families with students who have extensive support needs (ESN) in an urban school district. Employing a qualitative case study approach, the research involved collecting data through interviews, focus groups, and document analysis to explore how participant families…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Latin Americans, African American Students, Family (Sociological Unit)
Bradley Allen Hunt – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The transition from middle school to high school can be challenging for some students. Many school districts are implementing practices to ease the transition to high school. The current study examined one school district's practices and procedures for the development and implementation of a ninth-grade center. In this study, I examined the…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Educational Practices, Education Service Centers
Glover, Stephany – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Three of four high school students with special needs become unemployed after graduation. These students, referred to as "bridge students" as they transition into postsecondary life, seldomly escape lifestyles of criminal, sedentary or dependent behavior. Certain protocols enacted at the high school level may act as either barriers or…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Educational Practices, Barriers
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Özbek, Ahmet Bilal; Girli, Alev; Öztürk, Halil – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The statistics of the Ministry of National Education (MEB) show that the number of students who are pursuing their education in general education environments in scope of inclusion programs is increasing every year. It is observed that the number of special needs students who continue their secondary education after primary education is increasing…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Teacher Attitudes, Opinions, Special Needs Students
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Hansen, Michele JoAnn; Schmidt, Lauren – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2017
Students often participate in a myriad of academic support programs offered during the first year of college. This study is an investigation of the effects of participation in multiple high-impact educational practices on academic success outcomes (cumulative GPAs and persistence rates) among 2,028 first-year students. Results suggest that the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Readiness, Educational Practices, Grade Point Average
Henry, Wallace R., III – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study was intended to enhance the limited research on the knowledge and confidence of special education teachers in public education regarding transition services and the quality of transition plans they develop. The key variables examined in this study are knowledge, confidence, and the quality of student transition plans. The sample…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Public School Teachers, Charter Schools, Knowledge Level
Zinth, Jennifer; Millard, Maria – Education Commission of the States, 2015
In the 2014-15 school year, 47 states are administering high school assessments to gauge students' mastery of college and career readiness standards in English language arts (ELA) and math. These new assessments represent a departure from prior high school exams that measured acquisition of high school (or lower) content but provided no actionable…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Policy, Grade 12, Policy Analysis
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Klar, Hans W.; Huggins, Kristin Shawn; Hammonds, Hattie L.; Buskey, Frederick C. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016
Principals are being encouraged to distribute leadership to increase schools' organizational capacities, and enhance student growth and learning. Extant research on distributed leadership practices provides an emerging basis for adopting such approaches. Yet, relatively less attention has been paid to examining the principal's role in fostering…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Administration, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership
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Rowe, Dawn A.; Mazzotti, Valerie L.; Sinclair, James – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
College and career readiness for all students includes supporting the needs of students with disabilities. Ensuring students with disabilities are college and career ready goes beyond academics and must include self-determination skill development. As schools adapt to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and multi-tiered…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices, Skill Development
Poulos, Jennifer; d'Entremont, Chad; Culbertson, Nina – Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2015
In 2004, Boston Public Schools reported that more than 8% of its students dropped out of school that year. The city faced a crisis. Thousands of students were failing to earn a high-school diploma, a necessary credential for entrance into postsecondary education and/or the twenty-first century workforce. Factors driving students' decisions to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Interviews
Mann, Sharmila Basu; Martin, Rebecca – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2016
To successfully participate in today's global economy, young people must graduate high school with the skills and competencies that allow them to pursue further study and meaningful work. Yet the data around successful transition from high school to higher education, and then to the completion of a degree, show some alarming trends. In 2007, 70.5%…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Definitions
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