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Allison Prewitt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research provides increasing evidence that school leadership correlates with school performance (Herman et al., 2016). The leadership skills of K-12 school administrators are linked with student achievement. Evidence indicates that school leaders' roles continue to evolve as accountability measures change (Grissom et al., 2021). Historically,…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Role, Principals
First Focus on Children, 2025
Universal voucher policies allow any student, regardless of their family income level or history of attending public schools, to be eligible to use public funding to attend private, often religious, schools or home schooling. From 2021 to 2025, the number of statewide universal voucher programs has gone from zero to thirteen. These efforts have…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Private Schools, Educational Finance, Privatization
Justin Grasinger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this study, the researcher uses quantitative methods to examine the extent to which Title I funding helps public schools with large populations of economically-disadvantaged students increase student academic achievement in reading and math in grades 3-5, and whether the leaders of these schools utilize specific social justice actions…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Students, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Lynch, Kathleen; An, Lily; Mancenido, Zid – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We present results from a meta-analysis of 37 experimental and quasi-experimental studies of summer programs in mathematics for children in Grades pre-K-12, examining what resources and characteristics predict stronger student achievement. Children who participated in summer programs that included mathematics activities experienced significantly…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Mathematics Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education
Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to help overcome socio-economic segregation between schools, and reduce the poverty attainment gap. Yet there is little evidence such an approach is effective. Some important stakeholders are considering whether Pupil Premium should stop or be re-routed. It is therefore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Educational Policy
Van Schoick, Vanessa – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educators in inner-city schools face many challenges in meeting the needs of students. Examples of such issues that are specific to urban public schools include poverty, ethnic segregation, broad-spectrum discrimination, poor policies, low student performance, inexperienced teaching staff, and low expectations of students. The general problem is…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Barriers, Student Needs, Poverty
Kim, Sunyoung; Yan, Min-Chi; Wang, Jing; Lequia, Jenna – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2021
Poverty as a cultural factor affects students' school success and outcomes. In the current literature review, we aimed at providing a comprehensive analysis of intervention research designed to support school outcomes of students aged 3 to 21 years with disabilities or at risk for developing disabilities in high-poverty contexts. Eighteen studies…
Descriptors: Poverty, Students with Disabilities, At Risk Students, Intervention
Michael S. Garet; Kerstin Carlson Le Floch; Daniel Hubbard; Joanne Carminucci; Barbara Goodson – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
Boosting literacy among school-age children remains a national priority. Nearly one third of students in the United States have not developed the foundational reading skills needed to succeed academically, with students living in poverty, students with disabilities, and English learners especially at risk. Starting in 2010, Congress invested more…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literacy Education, Evidence Based Practice, Grants
Tuan, Kim Manh; Hoan, Tran Huu; Hoang Yen, Duong Thi; Huyen, Nguyen Phuong – Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
To support the implementation of Vietnam's new general education curriculum, Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training is organising a professional development programme integrating blended learning models for principals of general education institutions. In the period of educational reforms, there is a need for high-quality professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Professional Development
Tekleselassie, Abebayehu; DeCuir, Amaarah – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2023
This empirical study of Ethiopia school leadership examines the nation's leadership preparation programs through the lens of school leaders and a document analysis of national policies as well as narrated accounts of university preparation programs. To meet the expectations of the Millennium Development Goals of 2000, Ethiopia undertook…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Poverty, Objectives, International Organizations
Lohnes, Sarah – Abell Foundation, 2022
A small but growing cadre of schools and districts across the nation are turning to interventions rooted in brain science to complement or replace core curricula. Such programs target a related set of cognitive processes, known as executive function (EF), that are key to learning. Executive function skills are essential for planning, executing,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Models, Skill Development, Trauma
Balfanz, Robert; Byrnes, Vaughan – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
Following a 2008 report that documented the extent of chronic absenteeism in New York City's schools, the city organized an interagency task force to develop and implement a citywide effort to reduce chronic absenteeism. Given the size of the city school system and the scope of chronic absenteeism, the effort became the nation's most comprehensive…
Descriptors: Attendance, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Agency Cooperation
Chanee, Albert – South African Journal of Education, 2020
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, access to quality and equitable education still remains a challenge in the Gauteng province. As an intervention to improve access and quality of learning in all schools, especially township schools, the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) declared schools across Quintiles 1 to 3 throughout the province to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Grade 12, Public Schools
Mbalia, Jendayi – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2020
The academic needs of African-American girls too often are not linked to their intersecting identities. These interlocked identities often go unseen, thus are rarely addressed in K-12 schools. Specifically, their identities are neglected in some of their English Language Arts classrooms through the sole use of hegemonic literary practices.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Racial Bias, Gender Bias
Keefer, Natalie; Haj-Broussard, Michelle – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of this small-group case study was to determine to what extent an asset-based social justice curriculum could cultivate critical consciousness as evidenced by teachers' written discourse about students of color and students living in poverty. Participants were selected based on enrollment in an online graduate course in diversity in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Graduate Study, College Faculty, Social Justice