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Direct linkMónus, Ferenc – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Measuring environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors in schools is crucial in order to assess how pedagogical work in the schools cope with the expectations to move sustainability related attitudes and behaviors of students toward more pro-environmental ones. These changes in students' attitudes and behaviors are among the main…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Policy, Sustainability, Teaching Methods
Download full textBrian Holzman; Camila Cigarroa Kennedy; Tori Thomas; Aimee Chin; Stephanie Potochnick; Kalena Cortes – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
Newcomer programs aim to serve newly arrived immigrant students by providing specialized instruction and nonacademic support beyond what is offered in traditional English learner classrooms. In Houston ISD, Las Americas is a standalone program that serves newcomer students in grades 4-8. Given the growth of newly arrived immigrant students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Skills, Immigrants, English Language Learners
Texas Education Agency, 2023
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Texas Education Agency, 2022
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Gordon, Nora – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2017
The subgroup requirements for accountability in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) were designed to reveal underperformance of disadvantaged groups that could otherwise be hidden in aggregate averages. Both NCLB and its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), left the choice of minimum subgroup size at the school level (n-size) for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
Texas Education Agency, 2020
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Texas Education Agency, 2019
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Texas Education Agency, 2018
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Conger, Dylan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013
Many English Language Learners (ELLs) migrate to the United States at older ages and administrators must choose a grade in which to place these new entrants as soon as they register for school. In this study, I estimate the effect of grade placement on the short-term academic performance of ELLs who enroll in the Miami-Dade County Public School…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academic Achievement, Instructional Program Divisions, Enrollment
Marszalek, Jacob M.; Odom, Arthur L.; LaNasa, Steven M.; College, Donnelly; Adler, Susan A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
Recent studies of the relationship between teacher preparation pathways and student achievement have resulted in similar statistics but contradictory conclusions. These studies as a group have several limits: they sometimes focus on student-level indicators when many policy decisions are made with indicators at the school-level or above, are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification
Becker, Henry Jay; Epstein, Joyce L. – 1982
Survey data from 3,698 teachers in 600 schools in Maryland are used to explore the determinants of teachers' use of parent involvement strategies. Two questions are addressed: (1) How much do elementary school teachers organize their teaching practice to facilitate parent involvement in home learning activities? and (2) Which factors in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
Brophy, Jere – 1990
For this study, professors representing eight disciplines--science, mathematics, political science, music, literature, history, geography, and the visual arts--were asked first to review historical trends and current thinking in their disciplines and then to prepare papers about the ways in which the disciplines should be represented in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
