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The number of school districts with socioeconomic integration plans has more than doubled in the past decade and the sophistication of such plans has increased. The nine district case studies from across the United States profiled in this report provide valuable lessons for school integration efforts: (1) When socioeconomic diversity policies are…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Equal Education, School Districts, School Policy
Parent Involvement: Perceptions of Recent Immigrant Parents in a Suburban School District, Minnesota
Peer reviewedNam, Bu-Hyun; Park, Duk-Byeong – Educational Studies, 2014
The study aimed to examine the perceptions of immigrant parents regarding their school's efforts to encourage three types of parent involvement: Parenting, Communicating, and Learning at Home. The sample includes 106 immigrant parents with children who were enrolled in English Language Learners programmes at 10 schools in a suburban school…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Immigrants, Suburban Schools, School Districts
Ramseth, Paul R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This formative program evaluation and research study uses multiple methods and mixed paradigms to describe and evaluate the eighth grade Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program in a suburban middle school in Minnesota. The problem motivating this study is the persistent achievement gap among student groups as defined by racial,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Suburban Schools
Murtaugh, Kelly S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent years, legislative constituents have made requests of public colleges and universities that place them center stage in the debate over the value of the financial investment of state monies and the documented outcome of institutions of public higher education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting success…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Technical Institutes, Grade Point Average, Public Colleges
Videen, Cheryl Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined relations between students' psychological engagement and academic achievement, as well as between students' psychological engagement and growth in academic achievement. The study also examined if relations between students' psychological engagement and academic growth varied by grade level (elementary school compared to middle…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Grade 7
Download full textShardlow, Ben; Shelton, Ellen – Wilder Research, 2004
During the 2001-02 school year, the Cargill Foundation and Minnesota Humanities Commission invited elementary schools and preschools in Minneapolis and its suburbs to apply for three-year grant funding to introduce the Core Knowledge curriculum in their schools. In the first year of implementation, the different contexts of the six participating…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
