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Wright-McAllister, Saedra – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Managing behavior is a challenge at home and school for many families in disadvantaged areas. When students get to school, it can become an increased or heightened problem due to the school managing hundreds and in many cases thousands of students per day and teachers managing on average between 25-30 students during every part of their day. The…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Schools
Jeonghyeok Kim – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Each year, over a thousand public schools in the US close due to declining enrollments and chronic low performance, displacing hundreds of thousands of students. Using Texas administrative data and empirical strategies that use within-student across-time and within-school across-cohort variation, I explore the impact of school closures on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Closing, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Peterson, Paul E.; Myers, David; Howell, William G. – 1999
This report provides preliminary information on what needs to be learned about the systematic impact of voucher programs and the characteristics of students and families who make use of the Horizon voucher program in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. This initial report answers questions about the systemic impact of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Educational Vouchers
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Okey, Ted N.; Cusick, Philip A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1995
Describes perspectives of several families whose children dropped out of school. Audiotaped interviews with 3 or more members of 12 families reveal hostile views toward schooling and a 2-generation history of poor academic performance. School was a series of academic failures, conflicts, disciplinary hearings, suspensions, and expulsions. Dropping…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Vail, Kathleen – American School Board Journal, 1996
Examines mobility's underside, including confused and rootless children and frustrated teachers. One in six third-graders has attended at least three schools. Schools with the highest mobility rates are poor, urban, and increasingly less accountable. Educators cannot remedy mobility's social causes, but are helping transient kids with electronic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Busing, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
PRISE Reporter, 1990
The five issues in volume 21 of this newsletter report on issues and happenings in the education of handicapped students. Feature articles include: "Facilitating Consultation through Peer Collaboration" (Marleen C. Pugach and Lawrence J. Johnson); "Homeless Children: Educational Strategies for School Personnel" (Michelle F. Linehan); "Curriculum…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Congenital Impairments, Consultation Programs