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Link, Holly; Gallo, Sarah; Wortham, Stanton E. F. – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
This article investigates children's elementary school experiences, exploring how they become autonomous, rational individuals--the type of person envisioned in the European Enlightenment and generally imagined as the outcome of Western schooling. Drawing on ethnographic research that followed one cohort of Latinx children across five years, we…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Experience, Personal Autonomy, Student Development
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Parke, Carol S.; Generett, Gretchen Givens; de Almeida Ramos, Renata – Middle School Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to understand how schools address two specific criteria of the Schools to Watch® (STW) program: Social equity and developmental responsiveness. Descriptions of replicable practices, program/school characteristics, and initiatives created by each of the STW sites in Pennsylvania were analyzed. The data also includes…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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Brown, Abigail B.; Clift, Jack W. – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
The authors report insights, based on annual site visits to elementary and middle schools in three states from 2004 to 2006, into the incentive effect of the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that increasing percentages of students make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in every public school. They develop a framework, drawing on the physics…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1974
In Pennsylvania, the legal duty to reimburse a school district is based on the days of instruction provided by a district and payment only for the actual number of instruction days up to 180. The Department of Education presumes that, during a teacher strike, no days of instruction are being provided. However, should a school board notify the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Elementary Schools, School Visitation, Secondary Schools
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1976
This booklet briefly outlines the procedures to be followed by Pennsylvania school district administrators and state department of education officials in determining a school district's eligibility for state funds when the district operates its schools during a teacher strike. In order to qualify for state reimbursement, a school district must be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Records (Forms)