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Christina M. Galese – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reading comprehension is an extremely important skill that students need to be effective learners; however, a significant percentage of students are reading below grade level on a nationwide scale (National Assessment for Educational Progress, 2019; National Institute of Health as cited by Learning Disabilities Association of America, 2022). In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Pediatrics, Economically Disadvantaged
Mourning, Erica – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Economically disadvantaged students are being outperformed by their non-disadvantaged peers in middle school mathematics. This problem is evidenced by 2013 data from a national middle school mathematics assessment which revealed an achievement gap of 27 scale score points. Closing this gap is important to schools with high populations of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Models, Mathematics Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged
Sineta, Abraham – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite the push for universal education, many disadvantaged and poor children in developing countries still do not have access to basic education. This among other reasons is due to poverty where poor families cannot afford the cost of basic education even when it is "free" of tuition (McDonald, 2007). Demand-side financing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Females, Scholarships
Huh, Seonmin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Freire (1970/ 2000) argued that both the oppressors and the oppressed should engage in a discussion of power struggles in order to become fully human. This study investigated how Freire's idea of becoming fully human was exercised in a critical literacy curriculum with a privileged group of students. As a teacher and researcher, I constructed an…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Ideology, Discourse Analysis
Eklund, Julie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This multi-faceted study of dual credit programs in Texas was motivated by perceived discrepancies in dual credit data reporting and a lack of comprehensive, state-level information about dual credit student populations and coursework patterns. Using a P-16 framework, the author explored alignment issues that influence the delivery of dual credit…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Dual Enrollment