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Direct linkDosun Ko; Aydin Bal; Alfredo J. Artiles – Urban Education, 2024
Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem whose patterns change from one context to another. In order to develop systemic solutions that are responsive to local contexts, school stakeholders' collective, agentic actions toward systemic changes are essential. Utilizing a participatory systemic design process led…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Discipline, Race
Alison Jeanne Frary – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to determine if and to what extent disparities in the referral of student subpopulations for discretionary discipline exist and if changes in disparity correlate with changes in campus academic achievement. In this study, 31 million observations of discipline data generated by reason code 21, violations of the student…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Public Schools, Minority Groups, Discipline
Mark Jonathan Moreland – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There are well documented differences in gendered participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields across cultures and societies. Gender inequality in STEM reveals itself in global pay gaps and minority underrepresentation. Previous research has found that student attitudes towards career fields are rooted in their…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students
Junyi Cao; Katy Ieong Cheng Ho Weatherly; Wenhui Tang – Music Education Research, 2025
This study examines gender representation in middle school music textbooks in mainland China, aiming to explore portrayals of male and female musicians and potential biases within music education. Inspired by China's recent commitment to gender equality as outlined in its legal and educational policies, this research scrutinises the gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Equal Education, Music Education
Marx, Hugo – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2022
As the gender disparity increases yearly within art--with substantially more girls choosing to continue with the subject into asessed years than boys at secondary school--this essay explores a handful of the influencing factors for this gender imbalance, before exploring the ways in which we might begin to remedy such an unacceptable polarisation…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Art Education, Disproportionate Representation, Design
Sherrilyn Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Racial disparities are consistently present in the office discipline referral data for schools. Beginning in primary grades, African-American students are frequently punished more severely and more often than their peers who display similar behavior. Nationally, during the 2017-1018 school year, over two million K-12 public school students were…
Descriptors: Discipline, Referral, Racism, Teacher Attitudes
Ursula Moorer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Existing research consistently indicates that Black girls are assigned disproportionately exclusionary disciplinary consequences such as, suspension and expulsion rates, surpassing their White counterparts and Black boys. According to the Report to Congressional Requesters, (United States Governmental Accountability Office, 2018), exclusionary…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, African American Students, Females, Gender Bias
Kristian Edosomwan; Jemimah L. Young; Bettie Ray Butler; Jamaal R. Young; John A. Williams III – Journal of Education, 2024
The relationship between academic tracking and exclusionary discipline actions has only been studied in a limited number of empirical studies. By placing students at the lower strata, schools deprive them of the educational opportunities, widening the educational opportunity gap in a process we define as "opportunity stratification."…
Descriptors: Discipline, College Preparation, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Christine R. Starr; Campbell Leaper – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Nerd-genius stereotypes about people in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM) are barriers to getting many adolescent girls interested in pSTEM. Endorsing these stereotypes may undermine youths' pSTEM identity especially when they are incongruent with their self-concepts--possibly more likely for girls than boys.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Stereotypes, Academically Gifted, Self Concept
West, Shiquita Dicks – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Schools in the United States are facing chronic teacher shortages. The problem is underrepresented secondary teachers are leaving the teaching profession; therefore, leaving a limited representation of underrepresented secondary teachers in South Carolina. The purpose of this phenomenological study and research questions sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Shortage, Disproportionate Representation
Adai A. Tefera; Genevieve Siegel-Hawley; Ashlee Sjogren; David Naff – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Schools across the country are grappling with vocal resistance to educational equity efforts, while disparities, including racial disproportionality in school discipline, persist. In this research-practice-partnership project, Adai A. Tefera, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ashlee Sjogren, and David Naff learned of the ways educators and leaders across…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Discipline, Intervention, Racism
Selçuk Dogan; Mete Akcaoglu – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2024
Learning computer science (CS) is increasingly becoming a necessary component of K-12 education, but in most cases, teachers do not have either the essential knowledge to teach or a curriculum to follow. In this article, we analyze the outcomes from a yearlong, blended professional development (PD) program to teach teachers game design and coding…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Blended Learning, Professional Development, Computer Science
W. P. Malecki; Marta Kowal; Anna Krasnodebska; Bertram C. Bruce; Piotr Sorokowski – Science Education, 2024
It is often assumed that highlighting the contributions of female researchers to STEM fields may make those fields more attractive to women, thereby encouraging female participation. The present study (n = 802) aimed to test that assumption by investigating the impact of messages highlighting the contributions of women researchers to two STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, Sex Stereotypes
Ovid, Dax; Abrams, L'vannah; Carlson, Tess; Dieter, Mark; Flores, Paulos; Frischer, David; Goolish, Jolie; Bernt, Michelle La-Fevre; Lancaster, Amber; Lipski, Christopher; Luna, Joshua Vargas; Luong, Lucy M. C.; Mullin, Marlene; Newman, Mia Janelle; Quintero, Carolina; Reis, Julie; Robinson, Freja; Ross, Allison James; Simon, Hilary; Souza, Gianne; Taylor, Jess; Ward, Katherine E.; White, Yvonne Lever; Witkop, Emily; Yang, Christine; Zenilman, Aliza; Zhang, Eddie; Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Based on theoretical frameworks of scientist stereotypes, possible selves, and science identity, written assignments were developed to teach science content through biographies and research of counter-stereotypical scientists--Scientist Spotlights (www.scientistspotlights.org). Previous studies on Scientist Spotlight assignments showed significant…
Descriptors: Scientists, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Writing Assignments
Danielle Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Access to pre-college and college support programs is essential to student achievement and success. There are a myriad of opportunities and programming that will assist in college readiness for K-12 students. Exposure and awareness are key to these college readiness programs. By participating in college readiness programs, students are more apt to…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Administrators, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
