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Linsen Li; Aron Culotta; Douglas N. Harris; Nicholas Mattei – Grantee Submission, 2023
School rating websites are increasingly used by parents to assess the quality and fit of U.S. K-12 schools for their children. These online reviews often contain detailed descriptions of a school's strengths and weaknesses, which both reflect and inform perceptions of a school. Existing work on these text reviews has focused on finding words or…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools, Educational Change
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Millar, Roberto J.; Sahoo, Shalini; Yamashita, Takashi; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Online health information is underutilized among Hispanics with low English proficiency in the U.S. This study examines the association between a unique measure of general English literacy, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults. Data for Hispanics ages 25 to 65 (N = 700) come from the 2012/2014 Program for…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Information Seeking, Literacy, Language Usage
Mac 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