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Direct linkRyan M. Good – Education and Urban Society, 2025
In the late-2000s, Washington, DC achieved national notoriety for its embrace of market accountability in public schools and support for a steadily expanding charter sector. At the same time, the DC government pursued a concerted effort to attract new residents and investment to the city, a project that bore fruit in the form of some of the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Accountability, Disadvantaged, Social Class
Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Buck, Brandon – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper presents findings from a yearlong exploratory mixed-methods research study that investigates a national sample of six (6) intentionally diverse charter organizations. Intentionally diverse charter schools work against national public schooling trends to deliberately promote socioeconomically and racially integrated schooling spaces.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Student Diversity, Student Recruitment
Download full textChristina Clark Tuttle; Brian Gill; Philip Gleason; Virginia Knechtel; Ira Nichols-Barrer; Alexandra Resch – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2013
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a rapidly expanding network of public charter schools whose mission is to improve the education of low-income children. As of the 2012-2013 school year, 125 KIPP schools are in operation in 20 different states and the District of Columbia (DC). Ultimately, KIPP's goal is to prepare students to enroll and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Charter Schools, Middle School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
WORK, HENRY H.; AND OTHERS – 1964
ALTHOUGH A MAJOR ROLE IN THE SCHOOL SETTING EXISTS FOR THE PSYCHIATRIST, HE HAS NOT FULLY EXPLOITED THAT ROLE. THE PSYCHIATRIST COULD CONTRIBUTE HIS SKILLS IN SEVERAL SETTINGS. IN THE SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM, HIS CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE COULD AID IN THE ASSESSMENT OF TENSION AND STRESS PROBLEMS. IN THE PUPIL PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, THE PSYCHIATRIST COULD…
Descriptors: Consultants, Health Programs, Psychiatrists, School Attitudes
LEE, BEATRICE C. – 1963
A DROPOUT IS A PUPIL WHO LEAVES A SCHOOL BEFORE GRADUATION OR BEFORE THE COMPLETION OF A PROGRAM OF STUDIES, AND WHO DOES NOT TRANSFER TO ANOTHER SCHOOL. TABLES SHOW THE NUMBER OF PUPILS IN SCHOOLS FROM GRADE 5 THROUGH COLLEGE ENTRANCE FROM 1924 TO 1962, AND FROM GRADE 9 THROUGH GRADUATION FROM 1928 TO 1962. ANOTHER TABLE SHOWS PUBLIC SCHOOL NINTH…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adjustment (to Environment), Community Cooperation, Dropout Prevention
Fox, James Arthur – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine which personality traits as measured by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) are predictive of academic achievement in urban college freshmen of the Federal City College. The measures of achievement were grade point average (GPA) and the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program (CGPP) test…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade Prediction, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedBrilliant, Cynthia Duke Gitelman – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
Surveys and interviews compared school-related attitudes and activities of 47 Spanish-speaking parents who received training in parental involvement strategies with 84 who did not. The group receiving parent liaison training participated more frequently and in a wider variety of school-related activities. (Contains 40 references.) (Author/TD)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
Firestone, William A.; And Others – 1987
This report explores the commitment of students and teachers to the educational enterprise in ten urban comprehensive high schools in Baltimore (Maryland), Newark (New Jersey), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), and Washington (District of Columbia). Data were analyzed from interviews conducted in each school with the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Board of Education Policy, Counselor Attitudes
