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Anna Rhodes; Bethany Lewis; Joseph Quinn – Urban Education, 2024
Inter-district racial and socioeconomic segregation continue to affect students' educational opportunities. Housing mobility programs provide a way for low-income families to access lower-poverty and higher-performing schools in nearby districts. However, changing schools is also disruptive for students. Through interviews with 67 low-income Black…
Descriptors: Suburbs, Housing, Suburban Schools, African American Students
Rifenbark, Graham; Lombardi, Allison; Freeman, Jennifer – Educational Assessment, 2021
In this study (n = 5037) we further investigated the construct validity of the Georgia Brief School Climate Inventory (GBS). Despite containing ordinal items (e.g., ordered-responses), the GBS has only been examined using linear approaches. To fill this void, we employed confirmatory item factor analysis (IFA) to examine the factor structure…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Educational Environment, High School Students, Students with Disabilities
Gulosino, Charisse; Liebert, Jonah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
To date, there is a paucity of research that examines differences between charter schools that operate in suburban and nonsuburban contexts. This article examines whether students in suburban charter schools perform better or worse than their counterparts in traditional public schools or students in urban charter schools. Boasting the largest and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools
Ryan O. Kellems; Melissa Steinburg; Damon Bahr; Blake D. Hansen – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
There is a growing body of research that suggests that video-based interventions, such as video modeling and video prompting, are effective tools for teaching academic skills to struggling learners. This study used a single subject, multiple-baseline-across-subjects design to evaluate whether a video-prompting intervention could effectively assist…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Tablet Computers, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication
Leo, Aaron; Wilcox, Kristen C.; Kramer, Catherine; Lawson, Hal A.; Min, Mina – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: In the field of education, the lens of agency has provided a valuable conceptual alternative to deterministic portrayals of schools as oppressive institutions where teachers and students have little power over the conditions in which they teach and learn. A number of studies have investigated teacher and student agency, but few…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Haug, Matthew E.; Wasonga, Teresa – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among collective efficacy factors, as measured by the Illinois 5Essentials Survey, and college readiness scores, as reported by American College Testing (ACT), for high schools in the state of Illinois. The 5Essentials have been considered crucial to school success and therefore used to…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Effectiveness, College Readiness, Academic Achievement
Narinesingh, Terrence – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the Marzano Focused School Leader and Teacher Evaluation Models impacted school leader and teacher effectiveness to increase student proficiency and growth. This quantitative, non-experimental study was conducted using existing data in all middle schools in a large suburban school district in…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Suburban Schools, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Gulosino, Charisse; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
In this article, we introduce a special collection of research articles that consider the processes and consequences of school choice across different social and spatial contexts in order to better understand the relationship between school choice and stratification in educational opportunity. This special issue presents a wide range of studies…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Neighborhoods
Bowers, Alex J.; Monroe, Elizabeth C. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
School District Effectiveness Research (SDER) works to identify unusually effective organizations for in-depth qualitative study that significantly outperform peer districts over multiple years. Yet, critiques of SDER include a focus on cross-sectional data, individual states, and percent proficient metrics. Here, we analyze the Stanford Education…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Clayton, Jennifer; Porter, Michelle K.; Oliver, Melissa A.; Wiggins, Leslie R. – Education Leadership Review, 2020
To enhance society through equitable educational attainment, efforts are being made in school districts to investigate practices and student data to provide more equitable opportunities for the students and families they serve. Given the importance of school leaders and their impact on student achievement and school climate (Bass & Riggio,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, School Districts, Educational Practices
Flores, Osly J.; Gunzenhauser, Michael G. – Urban Education, 2021
This article addresses what we are calling "the gaps," the divergent and contextual understandings of "opportunity gap" and "achievement gap" evident in interviews with principals and school district leaders. Drawing from a sample of 22 interviews in urban, inner-ring suburban, and outer-ring suburban schools in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Bettis, Kendra – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2018
The researcher incorporated an evidence-based Student Success Skills program, to see the impact it made on attendance and achievement rates for a 5th grade classroom, in a suburban elementary school in the Atlanta, GA area. The results show that the Student Success Skills program made no impact on the students when examining absences and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intervention, Success
Pendola, Andrew – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
The intention of this paper is to add to existing knowledge of how building-level spending is prioritized toward horizontal and vertical equity during severe economic downturns. Using a sample of all public schools in Texas during the Great Recession, we examine how schools undergoing the greatest spending reductions reallocated their spending on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Expenditures
Somers, Cheryl L.; Townsend, Austin; Baranowski, Ariel; Hillman, Stephen B.; Robtoy, Elizabeth – Educational Research Quarterly, 2020
Aims: Educational research often relies on the self-reports of students to determine their grades/GPA for reasons including ease of administration, time constraints, IRB approval, and assumption of accuracy. The main purpose of this study was to determine the validity of student self-reports on their academic grades, and if the benefits outweigh…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average
Yu, Xiaoqi; Seeberg, Vilma; Malone, Larissa – Education and Urban Society, 2017
Minority suburbanization has been a fast growing demographic shift in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century. This article examines the tapestry of the suburbanization experience of a group of high-achieving Black American students and their families as told by them. Departing from the all too common, deficit orientation…
Descriptors: African American Students, High Achievement, Student Mobility, Suburban Schools