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Jana Obrovská; Martin Majcík; Jaroslava Simonová – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Educational inequalities persist between students of low socioeconomic status and their more affluent peers. At the same time, there is evidence of positive relations between student engagement and achievement. This multiple case study investigates a national project aimed at increasing student engagement and achievement through post-COVID-19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
Zyngier, David – International Review of Education, 2017
Educational research often portrays culturally, linguistically and economically disenfranchised (CLED) children's disengagement from school learning as individual behaviour, ignoring the contribution of race, gender, socio-cultural, ethnic and social class factors. This paper analyses a specific community engagement programme in Australia which…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Informal Education, Equal Education, Social Justice
Wolfe, Christy – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2018
Charter schools today serve more than 3 million students. Nationally, these students account for approximately 6 percent of all K-12 enrollment, though the percentage is much higher in many communities. Research shows that charter schools on average have a positive impact on student outcomes, and survey data suggest that there are an additional…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Facilities, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Akins High School is the newest and second largest high school in the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas. This report describes how the school has used small learning communities and the "HSTW" framework of Key Practices to improve the school culture, personalize the learning environment, improve student achievement and…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Culture, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
Fager, Jennifer – 1996
This booklet is part of a series of reports on "hot topics" in education. When educators build on informal tutoring processes and create organized processes of tutoring, it can become a powerful tool for learning, whether it is peer tutoring, cross-age tutoring, or parent/volunteer tutoring. Tutoring benefits students, who receive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Coleman, Laurence – Gifted Child Today, 2006
The purpose of this article is to summarize what is generally known about talent development and schooling by stating some propositions about the way such programs are structured. This article sets the stage for a series of stories of programs that attempt to address the challenge of talent development in diverse low-income populations. The…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, School Organization
Boylan, Hunter R. – 1976
This paper describes the operation and results of an individualized center funded under an Office of Education grant for the provision of special services to disadvantaged students. This center is designed to apply individualized instructional techniques to remedial, developmental, and general education courses for disadvantaged students enrolled…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, General Education
Dunn, Charleta J.; Payne, Bill F. – 1969
The investigation was initiated in an attempt to identify action programs which may help the socioeconomically deprived overcome the psychological degradation and injury to the self-esteem which result from the negative evaluation society has placed upon them. A sample of approximately 200 fourth and fifth grade school students was randomly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Weibly, Gary W. – 1979
Educational research cited in this paper suggests that the involvement of low socioeconomic status (SES) parents in the educational process has a positive influence on their children's academic achievement. At the preschool level, programs in which parents were instructed in ways to promote their children's intellectual development were found to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Fase, Willem – 1990
Lessons learned from Onderwijs un Sociaal Milieu (OSM), or Education and Social Origin, the largest compensation and enrichment program ever developed in The Netherlands, are described in this paper. Although the program did not raise lower class students' standardized test scores to the national level, the program had overly ambitious goals and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Blaschke, Charles – 1971
This report summarizes the management support activities of Education Turnkey Systems, Inc. for the O.E.O. Performance Incentive Remedial Education Experiment. Included are sections on the implementation, the monitoring, and the implications of this experiment that tested performance contracting as a technique of instruction in public school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
James, Donna Walker; Partee, Glenda – 2003
This report asserts that given the importance of families to a variety of positive youth outcomes and the emphasis placed on family involvement in federal law, young people should not be treated as "islands" by school and youth programs, separate from the context of their families. The report is the result of an analysis of over 100 evaluations of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education

Hummel, Mary; Steele, Claude – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1996
Describes the 21st Century Program at the University of Michigan, a program to address issues of academic achievement and student retention in higher education. The conceptual basis for this program comes from C. Steele's work that finds that there are disruptive pressures tied to racial stereotypes that in turn diminish academic performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnic Groups
Newark City School District, OH. – 1994
Chapter 1 In-Class programs are designed to improve the curriculum and instruction for Chapter 1 students, increase coordination and student time on task, enhance student self-esteem, and increase the student's academic achievement and test scores. This report describes a Chapter 1 In-Class Service model used within the Newark (Ohio) school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
Tyler, Ralph W. – 1974
The subject of this paper is the schooling of children of the poor. In the past most children of the poor obtained very little education in the school; in fact it operated largely as a sorting agency for them. With the increasing demand for universal education, the schools and the public have become conscious of the schools' inadequacy in reaching…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth