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Addressing Food Insecurity Experienced by Elementary School Students through a Weekend Backpack Program
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Mussington, Marlon J., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Food insecurity is a problem for millions of people in the United States. In 2020, 10.5 percent of US households were food insecure, and for people of color, the numbers were even greater. With the United States' history of discrimination against Black and Brown people in areas such as housing, employment, and education, racism is clearly a root…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Food, Hunger, Weekend Programs
A Phenomenological Study: Exploring Parents' Lived Experience and Motivation for Enrolling Their Elementary-Aged Children in a Weekend Language Program to Learn Chinese in the United States
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Bo Wai Chan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of 6 parents who enrolled their elementary-aged children in a weekend private language program to learn Chinese in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Elementary age is the ideal age to begin foreign language learning to attain proficiency in adulthood…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Parents, Experience, Motivation
An Examination of the Relationship among the Intentions, Features, Affordances, and Outcomes of Saturday Academy for Math Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
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Buckhalter, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examined the affordances made by participants of a professional development program. The program, Saturday Academy for Math (SA4M) was created around the intentions of providing teachers with experiences to deepen their content knowledge, widen their instructional practices, and do so in a collaborative setting. Using a design framework…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Skills, Cooperative Learning
Program Evaluation/Review as a Strategy for Continuous Quality Improvement in Weekend Schools: An Action Research Study
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Belica, Bekim – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This evaluation was undertaken as a method of gathering, providing, and analyzing data that would assist educators at a weekend school in ascertaining the perceptions of stakeholders concerning the school. The evaluation sought to determine various recommendations that, if implemented, would be beneficial to the weekend school under study.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Stakeholders, Attitude Measures, Evaluation Methods
Japanese Families' Educational Challenges in the US: Strategies and Attitudes for Language and Cultural Maintenance While in American and Hosuko Schools
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Hamada, Hideki – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Many Japanese families come to the US because the fathers are dispatched to work at Japanese companies in the US, and they return to Japan after a 3-4 year stay. Many children attend an American local school as well as a supplementary Saturday school, hoshuko, in order to keep up academically after they return to Japan. However, balancing an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Parent Attitudes, Principals
The Development of a Weekend Undergraduate Program as a New Delivery System for an Urban Business School: A Response to the Societal Needs of a Specific Clientele.
Sutherland, Lee W. – 1980
As a prerequisite to developing an undergraduate weekend college for the School of Management at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, a literature review and correspondence with institutions providing a weekend college were undertaken. The study objective was to discover which institutions offer such a program, how they operate, the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Students, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees