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Direct linkTatiana Kan; Christopher J. Cormier – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Focusing on asylum seeker and refugee students attending a school with the stated mission to cater to recent immigrants, asylees, and refugees in Texas, we explored the school experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee middle schoolers and how they see their education. Having obtained political asylum in the United States, they are hiding from…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Social Development, Emotional Development, Student Needs
Duman, Gurol – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Charter schools have grown rapidly in the last 20 years since the first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1991 and has become one of the most popular alternatives in public schools (Center for Education Reform, 2007). Parents may possess various reasons for choosing one charter school over another, or choosing them over traditional public…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Charter Schools, School Attitudes, School Choice
Silva, Kassondra M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Sulik, Michael J.; Valiente, Carlos; Huerta, Snjezana; Edwards, Alison; Eggum, Natalie D.; Kupfer, Anne S.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Wilson, Shauna B.; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Landry, Susan H.; Swank, Paul R.; Assel, Michael A.; Taylor, Heather B. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of children's effortful control and quality of relationships with teachers to school attitudes longitudinally in an ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged sample. Data were collected as part of a larger intervention project during mid-fall, winter, and late spring…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Attitudes, Low Income, Structural Equation Models
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
Watt, David M. – 1990
The military reserves are an attractive source of potential students for colleges attempting to recruit from non-traditional pools. To help colleges plan service delivery strategies and design programs attractive to this group, a study was undertaken to construct a profile of members of the military reserves. The Army National Guard of Texas was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Admission, Delivery Systems, Demography
Maloney, Catherine; Sheehan, Daniel; Rainey, Katie – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2009
As interest in expanding the number of high quality charter schools available to parents and students has grown, policy makers have increased their focus on identifying and providing support to new charter programs that have the potential to improve student outcomes and satisfy parent and student needs. Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Education…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment, Student Characteristics
Mudge, Suzanne D.; Grinnan, Cullen T.; Priesmeyer, H. Richard – Online Submission, 2006
Current educational research suggests that emotions can either enhance or inhibit the ability to learn, with social and cultural influences causing changes in behavior and altering biological processes. In this exploratory study researchers utilized a qualitative design to seek insight into student emotions associated with school attitude and…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Experience, Educational Research, School Attitudes
Peer reviewedDunn, Charleta J. – Journal of Negro Education, 1970
Two hundred children from the economically deprived areas of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards and near the North Side and Bottoms Public Housing Units of Houston participated in this study. (JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Rodney, H. Elaine; Mupier, Robert – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2004
This study compared the characteristics of girls in the juvenile justice system with their male counterparts in selected Texas counties. A relatively higher proportion of girls who are in trouble with the law experienced ineffective parental control as compared to delinquent boys. They also experienced more problems in family, school, and with…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Crime, At Risk Persons, Substance Abuse
Peer reviewedMenon, Ramdas; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1990
Examines school roles, school factors, and peer-group influence in predicting Mexican-American adolescents' inhalant use. Surveys 599 adolescents to determine whether unconventional peer associations promote inhalant use. Links academic performance, conduct to drug use. Concludes negative social identity often defined by schools. Makes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
School Achievement as an Influence upon the Affective Characteristics of Secondary Migrant Students.
Graham, Dede Thorp – 1985
Using the California Achievement Test, Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, and Tennessee Self Concept Scale, 210 high- and low-achieving migrant Spanish-surnamed students in grades seven, nine, and eleven from 2 Oklahoma and 4 Texas school districts were tested for achievement and grade level differences in study habits, study attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Educational Attitudes
