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Will Davis; Daniel Kreisman; Tareena Musaddiq – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child body mass index (BMI). Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free or reduced-priced meals can offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. With administrative data from a large school district…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, Eligibility
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Kyoko Taniguchi – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Previous studies have paid considerable attention to the impact on a child's primary education of attending pre-primary school. Researchers have asserted that early educational intervention can compensate for the effects of poverty and inadequate learning environments on child development and school success. This study analyzes the relationship…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Pardini, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative quasi-experimental study was completed to identify the impact the Success for All: Reading Edge (SFA) program had on student achievement at a Title I middle school. To improve literacy and student achievement in schools, scripted reading programs were created. With the popularity of these programs, research needs to be completed…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools
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Bowen, Daniel H.; Kisida, Brian – Education Next, 2023
After a steady increase throughout the middle of the 20th century, arts education has been in decline since the 1980s. Teachers attributed the declines to test-score pressures, budget cuts, or both. These trends have been most pronounced for students of color, who are more likely than white students to attend under-resourced schools and about half…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Disadvantaged Schools
Kimberly Herbert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher retention in high-poverty middle schools is a topic of concern. Teachers make the decision to leave the profession for a variety of reasons. Induction programs are put in place to for support with the goal of helping new teachers remain in the profession. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to identify critical components of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Poverty Areas, Economically Disadvantaged, Beginning Teachers
Feng, Mingyu; Huang, Chunwei; Collins, Kelly – WestEd, 2023
As a promising tool for improving math education and closing the achievement gap, the use of educational technology has dramatically expanded in K-12 education in recent years, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. ASSISTments was one of the few digital learning programs recommended for use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Sahni et al.,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Learning, Time Perspective
Smith, Kevin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to identify how teachers perceived the effectiveness of administrative support, induction program support, and mentor support. This study addressed the following research questions: (a) Is there a relationship between the perceived effectiveness of their administrative support and teaching in a high-poverty school for beginning…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Hollie Stegeman Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to apply two of Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation to evaluate the implementation of PAX Good Behavior Game training in a challenged Ohio middle school. The study explored teacher "reactions" to and perceived "learning" from the training as it relates to the middle school's goals, and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Prevention, Intervention
Laura Ancira – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The school-to-prison pipeline has been an ongoing phenomenon for many decades that disproportionately and negatively impacts students of color. Due to research suggesting school principals play a critical role in the student disciplinary decision-making process, the present study aimed to better understand how principals make discipline decisions…
Descriptors: Principals, Decision Making, Discipline, Middle School Students
Lucas Gortazar; Claudia Hupkau; Antonio Roldan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We provide evidence from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods. The intensive, eight-week-long program was delivered by qualified math teachers in groups of two students during after-school hours. The…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Rabie, Stephan; Visser, Michelle; Naidoo, Anthony; van den Berg, Francois; Morgan, Brandon – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2021
In South African high schools, many learners have limited support in making career related decisions to prepare them for the world of work after school. An important early transition for career-related decision-making is at the end of Grade 9 when learners are expected to decide which subjects they will select for the last phase of high school.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Career Choice
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Hsu, Pi-Sui; Lee, Eric Monsu; Smith, Thomas J.; Kraft, Carol – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how an after-school program that infused Maker education influenced Midwestern U.S. middle school youths' attitudes toward science. The researchers conducted pre- and post-interviews with six students from non-dominant backgrounds as well as the teacher, and also administered attitudinal…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scientific Attitudes, After School Programs, Shared Resources and Services
Robert E. Litan; Kimberly Willingham; Beth Schueler – Brookings Institution, 2023
Civil, informed debate is essential for any healthy democracy. This is truer than ever judging from the often uncivil, fact-free public discourse one sees too often on television and social media. But does participation in formal debate training improve educational outcomes? While policy debaters historically have come from high-income public…
Descriptors: Debate, Competition, Public Education, Student Diversity
Will Davis; Daniel Kreisman; Tareena Musaddiq – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child BMI. Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free or reduced-priced meals can offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. With administrative data from a large school district in Georgia, we use…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, Eligibility
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Kathy Brown; Jennifer Grace; Lisa A. Jones – Middle Grades Review, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore administrators' and teachers' experiences and perceptions of how restorative practice strategies impact the execution of school discipline in an urban middle school. This study included a review of data collected from interviews with middle school administrators and teachers in a large school district. A…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Administrators, Middle School Teachers, Administrator Attitudes
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