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Athanases, Steven Z. – Urban Education, 2021
This case study of one small urban California high school enrolling predominantly low-socioeconomic status (SES) Latinx youth and many emergent bilinguals found that a college-for-all school culture, guided by leadership and school vision, was enacted in classrooms as caring, safe, productive spaces promoting college-going comportment. However,…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools, Hispanic American Students
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Long, Christopher; Fraser, Barry J. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2015
We evaluated the effectiveness of two alternative middle-school science curriculum sequences, namely, a general science model and a topic-specific model (i.e., physics, chemistry, etc.). We also investigated the differential effectiveness of the alternative sequences for two ethnic groups. The sample consisted of 367 grade 8 science students from…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Science Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
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Ford, Alisha D.; Olmi, D. Joe; Edwards, Ron P.; Tingstrom, Daniel H. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2001
Evaluates the sequential introduction of compliance training components on the instruction-following of four elementary school students. The components included effective instruction delivery with reinforcement for compliance, time in, and time out. Increased compliance levels were maintained at follow-up with all four students. Discusses results…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Compliance (Psychology), Elementary Education, Positive Reinforcement