Problem: Few factors are as important to student success as family engagement in the educational process. One overarching barrier to perceived parental/caregiver involvement in urban high schools is the use of traditional definitions of family involvement, which are still espoused by school personnel, that place an emphasis on one-way school-based…

Purpose: This qualitative case study sought to understand and examine school social workers' perspectives on their role within California's TK-12 public school system. Theoretical Framework: Bronfenbrenner and Morris's (2007) bioecological systems theory and Frey et al.'s (2013) national school social work practice model were employed as the…

The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of student engagement of career academy students to those at a traditional comprehensive high school using propensity score matching and structural equation modeling. We found that academy students had significantly higher levels of emotional engagement and significantly lower levels of…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to define school value and its components. This paper discusses the contents of the school's value and the structure of the school's value. This paper also shows findings of educational services and value in high school. Design/methodology/approach: Comprehensive and inclusive questions were posed about…

The Academy for Educational Development (AED) conducted a case study of six public high schools in New York City as part of a multifaceted evaluation of a small schools initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, the authors gathered information and opinions from the schools'…

Through interviews with student editors, a questionnaire survey, and an analysis of editorials in high school newspapers, this study attempted to (1) discover the relative importance of, or interest in, certain topics through quantification; (2) rank these topics in order of importance; (3) determine the editorial attitude toward each topic; and…

Parents at a North Carolina high school were surveyed about their general confidence in the school, their opinions about the importance of specific school functions, and their confidence in these functions. These responses were correlated to measures of their willingness to be involved in the school. (SJL)

This study was designed to assess high school students' opinions concerning issues relating to homework assignments. A questionnaire about homework was completed by 210 selected high school seniors in 7 rural Tennessee high schools. Findings indicate that 83 percent of respondents were assigned homework on a regular basis, with about two-thirds…

Schools seeking to sharpen their academic skills programs should consider defining their academic goals; organizing the school's resources and modifying the schedule, curricula, and instructional techniques to meet the goals; and developing an evaluation program that effectively measures progress toward the goals. (PGD)

This study investigated school innovativeness and a number of variables commonly found to be associated with this phenomenon in similar North American studies. (Editor)

Describes the successful program implemented at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis (Indiana) for increasing the participation of parents, students, and teachers in school governance. Identifies new roles performed by teachers, administrators, parents, and students and notes two dramatic results of the program's first year. (PGD)

Examines how the predictive power of student background and school climate variables might vary in accounting for student achievement outcomes among four urban high schools. Argues that schools are socializing students to different expectations about desired behaviors. (Author/BE)

Describes the successful Alternative Learning Program for the High School Age (ALPHA), an optional program for 40 high school students disaffected by the traditional educational system in the Livonia (Michigan) School District. ALPHA involves communication workshops, community service, and dedicated teachers and is well supported by the central…

In one high school, students' attitudes toward school shifted from critical to positive between 1970 and 1979. Furthermore, school attitudes in 1979 were not systematically related to sociopolitical attitudes and political participation, as they were in 1970. Results suggest that perspectives on schooling shifted with changes in the socializing…

High levels of disruptive behavior, discipline referrals, and suspensions are among the symptoms of schools which have lost the bonds of respect. Educators face major challenges in transforming these school cultures. This article describes how restorative practices were implemented in certain southeastern Pennsylvania schools. The process of…