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Katrina Hill – Middle School Journal, 2025
In this article, the author shares her experience with a student whose parents had immigrated from China. One parent spoke English, but the other parent did not--which led to them sometimes feeling isolated from their child's educational experience. This understanding enabled the author to adapt her school's communication methods to better meet…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Middle Schools, Student Adjustment, Immigrants
Leigh Wedenoja; John P. Papay; Matthew A. Kraft – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We examine the dynamic nature of student-teacher match quality by studying the effect of having a teacher for more than one year. Using data from Tennessee and panel methods, we find that having a repeat teacher improves achievement and decreases absences, truancy, and suspensions. These results are robust to a range of tests for student and…
Descriptors: Looping (Teachers), Teacher Student Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Student Behavior
Barger, Tammy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Looping may be defined as a teacher remaining with a group of students for multiple academic years. In this quantitative study, looping was examined as a factor on science achievement. State-wide eighth grade school level 2010 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) data were used. By responding to a mailing, school administrators…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Tests, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests