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Direct linkLucy Thurmond Livingston – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This Urban Texas School District Restorative Discipline Practice (RDP) initiative was founded and funded on the description that RDP is designed to proactively build relationships, improve school climate, and reduce suspensions of African American (AA) males. This RDP phenomenon was reactively implemented in a Reset Center where suspended students…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Suspension, Discipline, Urban Schools
Malkus, Nathaniel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Previous research indicates that typical district budgeting practices mask large between-school teacher compensation expenditures (TCE) differences, that teacher sorting drives those TCE differences, and that TCE differences drive overall resource inequities. While scarce accurate school-level resource data has hindered intradistrict equity…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Expenditures, Comparative Analysis
Augustine, William Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The labor market in America has undergone a fundamental transformation over the past 25 to 30 years. The large loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector has created a dual labor market largely made up of marginal jobs in the retail and service sector (with low wages, inadequate or no fringe benefits, and little or no chance for career advancement)…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Compensatory Education, Higher Education
Wiesman, Karen Wheeler – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Funding public schools has been an ongoing struggle since the inception of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson's "A General Diffusion of Knowledge" that charged the states with properly funding public schools, to the current day legal battles that continue in states across the Union, America struggles with finding a solution to…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Public Schools, State Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textKsicinski, Joyce M. – 2000
According to a 1996 study by the National Center for Education Statistics, 75% of America's colleges offer remedial courses and 29% of first-time freshmen take them. Community colleges typically spend more on remedial education than do four-year institutions, and they are anticipating increased demand for such programs. The study cites Howard…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges
Fante, Cheryl H. – 1995
The purpose of this study was to examine whether computer-assisted instruction integrated with lecture/discussion would improve student performance in developmental English when compared to a traditional lecture/discussion instructional method. A total of 180 community college students were enrolled in one of six sections of developmental English.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
