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Bryan Drake Vanosdale – ProQuest LLC, 2023
East High School was opened in 1926 to over nine hundred students from the surrounding neighborhoods. At that time, East High School was an all-White suburban school in comparison to its identity today as the most diverse high school in the state with over forty languages and countries represented in its population. During the first decades of its…
Descriptors: Educational History, Institutional Characteristics, High Schools, Student Characteristics
Patterson, Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Children with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) are failing academically, despite the availability of educational, financial, and medical resources for them. This could be explained by the reliance of educational processes on traditional direct instruction that leads to poor academic performance of students with AS. Classroom format and environment are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Children, Students
Lane, Dallas Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between the classroom organizational structure and MCT2 test scores of fifth-grade math students. The researcher gained insight regarding which structure teachers believe is most beneficial to them and students, and whether or not their belief of classroom organizational…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Grade 5, Standardized Tests, Scores
Saylor, John – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: Following recent federal legislation and related policy changes, co-teaching evolved rapidly as a strategy to provide students with disabilities access to the same curriculum as students without disabilities while receiving instruction in the least restrictive environment. It is unclear if co-teaching is an effective instructional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Team Teaching
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Osorio, Sandra L. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
The number of school-age children of color in US schools is increasing, while the teaching force continues to be dominated by white teachers. According to the 2013 Digest of Education Statistics in the 2011-2012 school year, 81.9% of public school teachers were white, while the projected number of Hispanic students enrolled in public elementary…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Hispanic American Students, Student Experience
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Hollo, Alexandra; Wehby, Joseph H. – Elementary School Journal, 2017
Teachers' oral language use may be an important factor in student achievement, particularly for students who struggle with language, learning, and behavior. This study examined features of teacher talk during whole-class instruction in 14 general education (GE) and 14 self-contained special education (SE) elementary classrooms that included…
Descriptors: General Education, Special Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Skills
Toomer, Terri M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Co-teaching classrooms consist of general and special education teachers working together to benefit students with disabilities (SWDs). Many parents and teachers believe the content knowledge provided by general educators in the regular education setting, combined with the instructional service delivery model (SDM) expertise of special educators,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Suburban Schools, Middle School Students
Smith, Stephen W.; Daunic, Ann P.; Algina, James; Pitts, Donna L.; Merrill, Kristen L.; Cumming, Michelle M.; Allen, Courtney – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Maladaptive adolescent behavior patterns often create escalating conflict with adults and peers, leading to poor long-term social trajectories. To address this, school-based behavior management often consists of contingent reinforcement for appropriate behavior, behavior reduction procedures, and placement in self-contained or alternative…
Descriptors: Self Control, Student Behavior, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
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Bassette, Laura A.; Taber-Doughty, Teresa – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2016
Teaching students to enjoy reading is important in middle level education; however, middle school students with emotional behavioral disabilities (EBD) frequently struggle with reading skills and frequently display motivational deficits during reading instruction. The purpose of this study was to examine if the presence/absence of a classroom pet…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Animals, Intervention, Early Adolescents
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Markworth, Kimberly A.; Brobst, Joseph; Ohana, Chris; Parker, Ruth – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: This study investigates the models of elementary content specialization (ECS) in elementary mathematics and science and the affordances and constraints related to ECS--both generally and in relation to specific models. Elementary content specialists are defined as full-time classroom teachers who are responsible for content instruction…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Team Teaching, Elementary School Teachers, Specialization