NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 21 results Save | Export
Shena D. Kiper – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study provides an overview of the literature of Florida's only Community Partnership Schools™ model, as a strategy to enhance family and community engagement in low performing high poverty elementary schools. More specifically, the focus of this study was to determine to what degree parents perceived the effectiveness of family and community…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement
Paul E. Peterson; M. Danish Shakeel; Angela K. Dills – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Chetty et al. (2022) say county density of cross-class friendships (referred to here as "adult-bridging capital") has causal impacts on social mobility within the United States. We instead find that social mobility rates are a function of county density of family capital (higher marriage rates and two-person households), community…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Mobility, Friendship, Social Capital
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Grange, Christina; Miller, Antoinette – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This paper demonstrates how partnering with digital storytelling initiatives, like the StoryCorps project, can yield fruitful service-learning opportunities, while also supporting innovative approaches for teaching students from a range of disciplines who are enrolled in Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 1101). While various pedagogical tools for…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Academic Achievement, Story Telling
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Pink, Matthew A.; Taouk, Youssef; Guinea, Stephen; Bunch, Katie; Flowers, Karen; Nightingale, Karen – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
University-community engagement often involves students engaging with people who experience multiple forms of disadvantage or marginalization. This is particularly true when universities work with communities in developing nations. Participation in these projects can be challenging for students. Assumptions about themselves, their professional…
Descriptors: Models, Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
U.S. education has experienced many waves of reform in responding to rapid changes in knowledge, technologies, and the economy. It is now widely accepted that, to succeed in the future, all young people must have the opportunity to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication competencies--often referred to as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Achievement Gap, Common Core State Standards
Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2017
This report describes characteristics of the 11 model SEL schools in AISD and compares them to nonmodel SEL schools.
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Institutional Characteristics, Models, Elementary Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Clarke, Kendall; Denton, Marijke – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2013
Supporting children in their early development and learning has long-term benefits for both them and the broader community. Yet in Australia we still have significant examples of inequality of opportunity (Allan, 2010) and other structural barriers to family wellbeing, particularly in Indigenous and rural and remote communities (Bourke, Humphreys,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Rural Areas
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Christens, Brian D.; Speer, Paul W.; Peterson, N. Andrew – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined whether social class moderated the relationship between empowering and disempowering processes and psychological empowerment (PE) in a sample of individuals from five community organizing initiatives (N=490). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to test the relationship between community participation (CP) and alienation…
Descriptors: Social Class, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Interaction
Daniel, Vivian Summerour – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this within-group experimental study was to find out to what extent ninth-grade students improved their science performance beyond their middle school science performance at one Georgia high school utilizing a freshman academy model. Freshman academies have been recognized as a useful tool for increasing academic performance among…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (NJ3), 2008
Which comprehensive school reform programs have evidence of positive effects on middle and high school achievement? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on comprehensive school reform (CSR) models in grades 6-12. Comprehensive school reform models are programs used schoolwide to improve student achievement. They typically include the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Professional Development, Educational Change, Community Involvement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Burzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yu, Guoxing; Thomas, Sally M. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II data are analysed, using multilevel modelling techniques, to explore the key issues underlying the development of school effectiveness models. Differences between schools in Grade 6 pupils' reading and mathematics achievements are examined and the percentage…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Grade Repetition, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Burzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs
Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (NJ3), 2008
Which comprehensive school reform programs have evidence of positive effects on elementary school achievement? To find out, this review summarizes evidence on comprehensive school reform (CSR) models in elementary schools, grades K-6. Comprehensive school reform models are programs used schoolwide to improve student achievement. They typically…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Professional Development, Educational Change, Community Involvement
ACT, Inc., 2010
Foster High School, located in Richmond, Texas, is a school with a substantial enrollment of minority students (29 percent Hispanic students, 15 percent African American students) that has made noteworthy strides in improving the academic achievement and the college and career readiness of its students. Moreover, the gaps in academic achievement…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Case Studies, Minority Group Students, Academic Achievement
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2