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Nirmal Ghimire; Kouider Mokhtari – Reading Psychology, 2025
This study uses 2018 PISA data to explore factors impacting 15-year-old U.S. students' reading performance. It finds teacher experience positively correlates with scores, while attributes like age negatively impact them. Home ICT access boosts achievement, but overabundance of devices proves counterproductive. Ethnicity, parental education, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Reading Ability, Reading Fluency
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Hall, Marissa; Rathburn, Amy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
Demand for jobs in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and in the health care field is projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019). However, the current STEM and health care workforces are characterized by demographic disparities and a lack of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics
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Simpson, Patricia Anne – International Journal of Music Education, 2013
The myth of Orpheus is intricately implicated in the origin of song. For centuries, myth and music have cooperated in a variety of genres, foremost among them in opera. The myth, open to reinterpretation across linguistic, national, and temporal boundaries, served as a starting point for an extracurricular opera project in the metropolitan region…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Immigrants, Ethnicity