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Mirza Grizelle Sanchez-Medina – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who are English learners (ELs) represent over 10% of the overall student population in U.S. public schools. Nevertheless, this population is highly underserved in schools and has some of the lowest graduation rates. This phenomenological research interviewed eight principals to examine how they…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, English Language Learners, Principals, High Schools
Haynes, Larry Parker; Gurley, D. Keith – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2022
Adolescents experience challenges navigating psychological, physiological, and emotional transformations. This article contributes to research into how middle school and high school environments can reinforce the needs of students through the transition from middle school to high school. In this grounded theory study, we interviewed 11…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Adjustment, Principals, Administrator Role
Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2017
This report describes characteristics of the 11 model SEL schools in AISD and compares them to nonmodel SEL schools.
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Institutional Characteristics, Models, Elementary Schools
Chu, Andrew Haiwen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study analyzes the uses of real-world contexts in mathematics lessons in the classrooms of four teachers across two school years at an urban high school. Drawing upon a framework of culturally relevant mathematics pedagogy, this dissertation focuses on how real-world contexts are connected to teaching mathematics for understanding, centering…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Secondary School Mathematics, Relevance (Education)
Daniel O. Lawler – English Journal, 2013
This article explores problems with the trend of business language making its way into schools and provides strategies for how to address this issue.
Descriptors: Business, Language Variation, Educational Strategies, Educational Environment
Hadley, Wanda M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2011
High school students with disabilities are attending colleges and universities in growing numbers, with their rate of college participation doubling in the past twenty years. Students with disabilities in the secondary educational system are protected by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) of 2004, which requires…
Descriptors: College Students, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Zimmerman, Thomas G.; Johnson, David; Wambsgans, Cynthia; Fuentes, Antonio – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
This article reports on a public school that is succeeding in encouraging Latino high school students to select Computer Science (CS) as a major. The students attend a charter high school designed to encourage low-income Latino students to attend college and attain proficiency in English, Spanish, and computers. Using data from surveys and by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Private Schools, Intervention, Student Interests
Denson, Nida; Chang, Mitchell J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2009
This study addressed two questions: (a) Do different forms of campus racial diversity contribute uniquely to students' learning and educational experiences when they are simultaneously tested utilizing multilevel modeling? (b) Does a campus where students take greater advantage of those diversity opportunities have independent positive effects on…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Racial Relations, Educational Experience, Racial Differences
Smith, Thomas J. – National High School Center, 2007
This "snapshot" illustrates how one school is managing to make a positive difference for ninth graders. It describes the Ninth Grade Success Academy, a school-within-a-school at Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has a number of features specifically designed to help ninth-graders make successful…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Transitional Programs, High Schools, High School Students

Boman, Peter; Smith, Douglas C.; Curtis, David – School Psychology International, 2003
Assesses high school students' levels of dispositional optimism and pessimism, explanatory style and anger in relation to the school setting. Results suggest that anger management programs focusing on cognitive restructuring and related strategies can be a powerful means for reducing aggressive behaviors at school. (Contains 38 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Cognitive Restructuring, Educational Environment
Krysinski, Patricia R. – 1993
A qualitative study was conducted in 1992 of high school students in an urban school district in the northeastern United States. The initial focus of the study was school and student culture, student expectations, curriculum, achievement, attendance, and dropout rates. However, the study progressed to focus on how students survive the violence in…
Descriptors: Crime, Educational Environment, High School Students, High Schools
Kraus, Pamela – 1996
The problem of sexual harassment in junior and senior high schools is addressed in this practicum. Its major goals were to raise the awareness and understanding of sexual harassment and to create a school environment that does not tolerate sexual harassment. It was found that both students and staff possessed a poor understanding of what defines…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment
Kennelly, Louise, Ed.; Monrad, Maggie, Ed. – National High School Center, 2007
The transition from middle school to high school represents a significant event in the lives of adolescents, one that necessitates support from and collaboration among teachers, parents, counselors, and administrators at both educational levels. Successful transitions place particular emphasis on ninth-grade initiatives and can create one of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Student Attrition
Wasson, Avtar S.; Dionne, Jean-Paul – 1982
The interactions among student personality, school climate, and socially deviant behavior were examined by means of a survey of 483 high school students in three rural schools in eastern Ontario (Canada). Data were gathered on students' stimulus-seeking behavior, their self-reported deviant behavior in school, and their perceptions of whether the…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Discipline, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Hudley, Cynthia; Daoud, Annette; Polanco, Ted; Wright-Castro, Rosina; Hershberg, Rachel – 2003
Engagement is a potentially useful construct for organizing strategies to support adjustment, achievement and retention in school, particularly among our most vulnerable student populations. Even if high quality schooling is available, high levels of achievement will implicitly demand engagement on the part of students. This initial analysis,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment, Expectation
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