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Allensworth, Elaine M., and Kallie Clark. "High School GPAs and ACT Scores as Predictors of College Completion: Examining Assumptions About Consistency Across High Schools." Educational Researcher 49, no. 3 (January 27, 2020): 198–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20902110.
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High school GPAs (HSGPAs) are often perceived to represent inconsistent levels of readiness for college across high schools, whereas test scores (e.g., ACT scores) are seen as comparable. This study tests those assumptions, examining variation across high schools of both HSGPAs and ACT scores as measures of academic readiness for college. We found students with the same HSGPA or the same ACT score graduate at very different rates based on which high school they attended. Yet, the relationship of HSGPAs with college graduation is strong and consistent and larger than school effects. In contrast, the relationship of ACT scores with college graduation is weak and smaller than high school effects, and the slope of the relationship varies by high school.
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Darnell, Teena, Kathy Hager, and Paul D. Loprinzi. "The Impact of School Nurses in Kentucky Public High Schools." Journal of School Nursing 35, no. 6 (July 5, 2018): 434–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059840518785954.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between school nurse presence and graduation rates, absenteeism, and American College Test (ACT) scores. A state-wide survey of all public high schools was undertaken (participation rate of 99.1%). Survey data obtained from individual high schools provided information on the employment status of school nurses. In addition to nurse presence determined by the survey, open-access electronic databases were used to determine graduation rates, absenteeism, ACT scores, money spent per pupil, gender, race–ethnicity proportion, and incarceration data. Study findings showed a possible relationship between students attending schools with a full-time nurse and significantly higher graduation rates, lower absenteeism, and higher ACT scores. The study results suggest that school nurses may contribute not just to health outcomes but to improved academic and economic outcomes as well. Of course, future work is needed to confirm these assertions.
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Kaniuka, Theodore S. "Considering District and School Factors and Their Relationship to ACT Performance in North Carolina: An Examination of the ACT Pilot Results." ISRN Education 2014 (March 4, 2014): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/757325.
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Since 2001 several states have adopted the requirement that high school students either take the SAT or ACT to assess high school programs or assist students in accessing post-secondary-educational opportunities. In 2012 the state of North Carolina adopted a new accountability program that included the ACT as a measure of college readiness. Previous research on the relationship between school districts and school level performance found that district size had a role in school achievement. This study looked at how district factors influenced the ACT performance of students across North Carolina in an effort to better understand if there were district factors other than size that may be influencing student performance and how high school reforms, given the influence of district factors is meeting the goal of increasing student college readiness. The results of this study are as follows. (1) District factors are related to school level performance, where student race and parental education levels were found to be significant predictors of achievement, (2) the traditional school level factors of race and student socioeconomic status did significantly predict ACT scores, and (3) as a high school reform model, students attending early college high schools did score higher on the ACT as compared to traditional high schools.
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Mujumdar, Vilas, and Gary McGavin. "Field Act Public Schools … a Need for Safety Reviews." Earthquake Spectra 15, no. 3 (August 1999): 585–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1586060.
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The Field Act has enabled a higher design and construction requirement for California's public schools since 1933. Much has been learned of earthquake design and construction since the enactment of the Field Act. The design profession has found, from experience in actual earthquakes, that some types of construction and structural systems have less than desirable responses to earthquakes. Children and staff in some of these facilities may be at risk. This paper urges that some older Field Act-approved structures should be reviewed for seismic safety. Systems such as nonductile reinforced concrete frames and tilt-up concrete construction are at a high level of concern. Other concerns include deterioration of older school facilities, inappropriate modifications, and nonstructural items in schools built before modern codes addressed the potential for nonstructural damage. This paper reviews these issues and calls for statewide examination of older Field Act-approved public schools in order to determine the extent of public schools that might be at some level of seismic risk.
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Krieg, John M. "Are Students Left Behind? The Distributional Effects of the No Child Left Behind Act." Education Finance and Policy 3, no. 2 (April 2008): 250–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp.2008.3.2.250.
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The No Child Left Behind Act imposes sanctions on schools if the fraction of students demonstrating proficiency on a high-stakes test falls below a statewide pass rate. While the motivation behind this system is improved public school performance, it also provides incentives for schools to focus educational resources on the marginal student rather than those on the tails of the ability distribution. Using statewide, student-level panel data, students on the tails of the ability distribution, especially high-ability students, are demonstrated to score below expectations if their school is in danger from No Child Left Behind sanctions.
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Scarneo-Miller, Samantha E., Luke N. Belval, Susan W. Yeargin, Yuri Hosokawa, Zachary Y. Kerr, and Douglas J. Casa. "Exertional Heat Illness Preparedness Strategies: Environmental Monitoring Policies in United States High Schools." Medicina 56, no. 10 (September 23, 2020): 486. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina56100486.
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Background and objectives: Environmental monitoring allows for an analysis of the ambient conditions affecting a physically active person’s ability to thermoregulate and can be used to assess exertional heat illness risk. Using public health models such as the precaution adoption process model (PAPM) can help identify individual’s readiness to act to adopt environmental monitoring policies for the safety of high school athletes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the adoption of policies and procedures used for monitoring and modifying activity in the heat in United States (US) high schools. Materials and Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, we distributed an online questionnaire to athletic trainers (ATs) working in high schools in the US. The questionnaire was developed based on best practice standards related to environmental monitoring and modification of activity in the heat as outlined in the 2015 National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Statement: Exertional Heat Illness. The PAPM was used to frame questions as it allows for the identification of ATs’ readiness to act. PAPM includes eight stages: unaware of the need for the policy, unaware if the school has this policy, unengaged, undecided, decided not to act, decided to act, acting, and maintaining. Invitations were sent via email and social media and resulted in 529 complete responses. Data were aggregated and presented as proportions. Results: Overall, 161 (161/529, 30.4%) ATs report they do not have a written policy and procedure for the prevention and management of exertional heat stroke. The policy component with the highest adoption was modifying the use of protective equipment (acting = 8.2%, maintaining = 77.5%). In addition, 28% of ATs report adoption of all seven components for a comprehensive environmental monitoring policy. Conclusions: These findings indicate a lack of adoption of environmental monitoring policies in US high schools. Secondarily, the PAPM, facilitators and barriers data highlight areas to focus future efforts to enhance adoption.
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Knight, David S. "Are School Districts Allocating Resources Equitably? The Every Student Succeeds Act, Teacher Experience Gaps, and Equitable Resource Allocation." Educational Policy 33, no. 4 (July 22, 2017): 615–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904817719523.
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Ongoing federal efforts support equalizing access to experienced educators for low-income students and students of color, thereby narrowing the “teacher experience gap.” I show that while high-poverty and high-minority schools have larger class sizes and receive less funding nationally, school districts allocate resource equitably, on average, across schools. However, the least experienced teachers are still concentrated in high-poverty and high-minority schools, both across and within districts. I then show that additional state and local funding is associated with more equitable district resource allocation. The study offers recommendations for state and federal education policy related to the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Hinrichs, Peter. "When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement." Education Finance and Policy 6, no. 4 (October 2011): 486–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00045.
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A number of high schools across the United States have moved to later bell times on the belief that their previous bell times were too early for the “biological clocks” of adolescents. In this article I study whether doing so improves academic performance. I first focus on the Twin Cities metropolitan area, where Minneapolis and several suburban districts have made large policy changes but St. Paul and other suburban districts have maintained early schedules. I use individual-level ACT data on all individuals from public high schools in this region who took the ACT between 1993 and 2002 to estimate the effects of school starting times on ACT scores. I then employ school-level data on schedules and test scores on statewide standardized tests from Kansas and Virginia to estimate the effects of bell times on achievement for a broader sample. The results do not suggest an effect of school starting times on achievement.
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Veir, Carole A. "Implementation Status of the Carl D. Perkins Act in Rural High Schools." NASSP Bulletin 73, no. 517 (May 1989): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019263658907351716.
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Pazey, Barbara L., and David DeMatthews. "Student Voice From a Turnaround Urban High School: An Account of Students With and Without Dis/Abilities Leading Resistance Against Accountability Reform." Urban Education 54, no. 7 (September 4, 2016): 919–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085916666930.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act redefines the priorities of our nation’s education system. Prior to its passage, turnaround strategies advanced solutions for low-performing schools. Research literature examining how these reforms impacted the schooling experiences of students attending these schools is lacking. We present the results of a qualitative case study of a reconstituted urban school in the Southwest United States, providing the perspectives of 10 students with dis/abilities and the effects accountability reform efforts had on their high school experience. Three expressed needs and desires were identified: (a) a positive school identity, (b) stability, and (c) to be recognized and heard.
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Anderson, Lee W. "The No Child Left Behind Act and the legacy of federal aid to education." education policy analysis archives 13 (April 4, 2005): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v13n24.2005.
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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) builds on a tradition of gradually increasing federal involvement in the nation's public school systems. NCLB both resembles and differs from earlier federal education laws. Over the past five decades, conservatives in Congress softened their objections to the principle of federal aid to schools and liberals downplayed fears about the unintended consequences of increased federal involvement. The belief in limited federal involvement in education has been replaced by the presumption by many legislators that past federal investments justify imposing high stakes accountability requirements on schools.
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Jamali, Ferdos, and Nouzar Gheisari. "Formative assessment in the EFL context of kermanshah high schools: Teachers' familiarity and application." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 5, no. 1 (November 17, 2015): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v5i0.48.
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Formative assessment in language teaching classes is gaining significance as one tool for successful teaching. For the teachers, administers, district managers, policy makers, and all those who lend a hand with the learning/teaching process, formative assessment can act as key factor in determining their exact whereabouts, and specifying where to go in the process .The debatable issue, however, is whether English langue teachers , as the key role players of the learning-teaching process, in the formal high schools of Kermanshah district are familiar with and employ realized-as-the-most-significant assessment techniques (questioning, feedback without grades, self-assessment, peer-assessment, and formative use of summative assessment) by Black and colleagues (2004) in their teaching act. With reference to such debate, the present study aimed at eliciting the extent of familiarity and employment of five assessment techniques from high school teachers in the formal context of education in Kermanshah district.To this end, two questionnaires, one open-ended and one 20-item Likert scale was distributed among 200 high school teachers (100 male and 100 female) in Kermanshah province. The results of statistical survey manifested that, despite highly positive perception and evaluation of the five assessment techniques, high school teachers in Kermanshah province employed just questioning technique in their classes significantly, with the four other techniques remained unemployed to a great extent. Keywords: formative assessment, EFL context, high schools, assessment techniques.
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Darling-Aduana, Jennifer, and Carolyn Heinrich. "The Potential of Telepresence for Increasing Advanced Course Access in High Schools." Educational Researcher 49, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 415–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20932461.
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The adoption of telepresence technology in K–12 schools potentially expands students’ access to course offerings and new ways of learning, but little is known about its implementation and promise for improving student outcomes. We employ a mixed-methods analysis to examine the experiences of students and teachers in telepresence courses in a large, urban school district as well as student learning outcomes and access to advanced placement courses. Findings from fixed effects models indicate improved access to advanced courses and higher ACT scores among students enrolled in telepresence courses. In surveys, students and teachers reported generally favorable perceptions about the enhanced opportunities for advanced course-taking and collaboration across schools afforded by the telepresence technology.
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Gamede, Vangeli Wiseman. "Cultural implications for learners’ effectiveness as governors of schools in rural South Africa." South African Journal of Education, no. 40(3) (August 31, 2020): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v40n3a1655.
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The South African Schools Act, 84 of 1996, articulates the establishment of School Governing Bodies, which authorises stakeholders such as parents, educators and learners to participate actively in decision-making processes pertaining to school governance. The Act further stipulates that learners, through the Representative Council of Learners, should be afforded full opportunity to participate in crucial decisions by the broader governing body. The reason for undertaking the study reported on here was triggered by the concern raised by various authors about the high level of ineffectiveness of learners as governors of schools in South Africa. This study explored and analysed the significance of culture in relation to learners’ effectiveness as governors of schools in rural South Africa. A qualitative research approach, based on a purposive sampling method and interviews, was espoused by engaging members of the Representative Council of Learners in certain selected high schools of the Harry Gwala district in KwaZulu-Natal. The findings of the empirical study investigation divulged that culture was one of the main impediments to learners’ effective school governance in the rural South African setting. The study recommends the intervention of the Department of Education, with the view of creating an environment conducive to active learner participation in school governance in rural areas.
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Nahak, Siprianus, Sarwiji Suwandi, and Nugraheni Eko Wardani. "Directive Speech Acts in Indonesian Language Learning in Surakarta Citizens' High Schools." AKSIS: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 4, no. 1 (February 3, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/aksis.040101.
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The directive speech act in learning is speech act concerned on the conversation context. Conversation context aimed includes with whom, to whom, what, and how the speech delivered, therefore it mush be concerned by teacher and student in learning process. This research is conducted to describe directive speech act and between teacher with student and student with student in Indonesian learning at Surakarta Citizens' High Schools. The purpose of this research is to know the directive speech act in Indonesian learning process. The method conducted of this research is qualitative descriptive. The object of this research includes speech between teacher with student and student with student involved in Indonesian learning process. The data collecting technique of this research is conducted by: observation, recording, and note. The data analysis of this research is describing the recording value, data reduction, data interpretation, and summarising. Based on research value at Surakarta Citizens' High Schools, shows that directive speech act conducted by the teacher with student more dominant is done by teacher. It happens because the teacher as good figure of speaking and polite in speech.
Keywords: directive speech act, Indonesian learning
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Tindak tutur direktif dalam pembelajaran merupakan tindak berbahasa yang memperhatikan konteks pembicaraan. Konteks pembicaraan yang dimaksud berkaitan dengan siapa, kepada siapa, apa, dan bagaimana tuturan itu disampaikan oleh karena itu, menjadi perhatian untuk guru dan siswa dalam proses pembelajaran. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mendeskripsikan tindak tutur direktif antara guru dengan siswa dan siswa dengan siswa dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia di SMA Warga Surakarta. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini untuk mengetahui tindak tutur direktif dalam proses pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah dekriptif kualitatif. Objek dalam penelitian ini mencakup tuturan antara guru dengan siswa dan siswa dengan siswa. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah guru dan siswa yang terlibat dalam proses pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dilakukan dengan cara: pengamatan, perekaman, pencatatan. Teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan hasil rekaman, reduksi data, interpretasi data, dan menarik kesimpulan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian di SMA Warga Surakarta menunjukan bahwa, penggunaan tindak tutur direktif yang dilakukan oleh guru dan siswa lebih dominan adalah guru. Hal ini terjadi karena guru sebagai contoh yang baik dalam bertutur dan santun dalam berbahasa.
Kata kunci: tindak tutur direktif, pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia
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Sugiyanta, Sugiyanta, and Soenarto Soenarto. "An evaluation model of educational quality assurance at junior high schools." Research and Evaluation in Education 2, no. 2 (December 28, 2016): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/reid.v2i2.11118.
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The study was to develop an appropriate evaluation model of quality assurance (QA) for evaluating the programs of the educational QA (EQA) at junior high schools. The study was a research and development study that referred to the steps developed by Borg and Gall. The results of the study show that the evaluation model of EQA in junior high schools consist of the implementation of QA system and the performance of QA. The constructs for the instrument of QA system implementation consisted of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and the act of revision is based on the exploratory factor analysis at the significance level of 0.000. The constructs for the instrument of EQA performance consisted of: resource development; program and activity development; participation, satisfaction, knowledge change, attitude change, and behavior change of school community; social, economic, and school environmental development based on the exploratory factor analysis at the significance level of 0.000. The feasibility of the evaluation model is in a good category based on experts’, users’, and practitioners’ judgment and the evidence found in the field testing.
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Jaska, Patrick, Patrick Hogan, and Zhezhu Wen. "Academic Accountability In Texas Public Schools: 2003-2007." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 2, no. 4 (January 10, 2011): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v2i4.1072.
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This study examines factors affecting test scores in a sample of thirty-seven Texas public high schools from 2003 to 2007 since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The schools were chosen based upon similar tax rates and district sizes. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test was implemented in 2003 to measure the performance of Texas public high school students. Schools are rewarded for high performance based upon the student scores on the TAKS test, which is administered once per year. Much of the debate on student and school accountability has centered on the importance of student performance on the standardized TAKS test. Those who oppose testing say that teachers and administrators may simply narrow the curriculum and teach the test. Proponents of testing feel that accountability will give administrators and teachers incentives to help students learn. As a result, many school districts in Texas have increasingly put pressure on teachers to improve test scores.
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Bowen, Daniel H., and Brian Kisida. "The art of partnerships." Phi Delta Kappan 98, no. 7 (March 22, 2017): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721717702624.
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The shift from the No Child Left Behind Act to the recently authorized Every Student Succeeds Act could beckon a renaissance of K-12 arts education in the U.S. Over the past decade, NCLB’s increased emphasis on accountability testing in core subjects has coincided with a notable decline in school-based arts exposure. Recognizing this trend and anticipating its consequences, many school districts and arts education advocacy organizations have been tackling this challenge through innovative, community-based partnerships that leverage existing arts education resources, bringing local arts organizations, cultural institutions, artists, and philanthropic efforts together to provide enriching opportunities for students in high-need schools. These partnerships provide models that schools, districts, and states could adopt to strengthen their arts programs.
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Noddings, Nel. "High stakes testing." Theory and Research in Education 2, no. 3 (November 2004): 263–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878504046520.
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This response argues that, although evaluation of student learning is required for accountability, high stakes testing is not required and may even be counterproductive. It also questions whether the goals of the ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ are reasonable and contends that, if they are not, there may be no justification for imposing punishments and sanctions on children and schools unable to meet them. Moreover, high stakes testing may be incompatible with many defensible aims - among them, critical thinking.
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Phipps, A. G., and P. M. Anglin. "A Rational Economic Analysis of Public-School Closings in Saskatoon." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 25, no. 3 (March 1993): 339–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a250339.
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The Saskatoon public board closed eleven elementary schools and one high school during the period 1978–88. The finding from two economic models is that the school board did not act as a discriminating rational economic decisionmaker in closing two elementary schools located in a case-study neighbourhood. The postponement of the closures resulted in an annual subsidy to the remaining students and their families for an amount eventually equivalent to 40% of the actual savings. The school board thus incorporated noneconomic factors into its decisions in anticipation of the community reactions to a closure.
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Negrych, Natalia, and Iryna Kuzmych. "The formation of interpretation skills in high-school students of secondary schools." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 822 (2020): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2020.822.49-61.
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The article is devoted to the formation of interpretation skills in high-school students and teaching the notions of interpretation with the purpose of obtaining interpretation competence. There were presented didactic principles of translation teaching during English lessons. We emphasized the importance of adhering to the principles of translation training, as well as highlighting effective principles that should be applied for methodical reasons. The main task of the teacher at the initial stage of studying translation can be defined − teaching students to distinguish and identify structured elements of translation, the reasons for their use and the ability to operate the components of interpretation. Particular attention is given to the formation and development of the interpreter's skills. The main task of the teacher was defined and a set of exercises was developed. The four stages for the formation a competent specialist lead to obtaining special interpreter's skills in accordance with international and economical needs in the contemporary labor market. The teacher has to teach student that interpreter has to be an active translator of the communication act between the sender of the message and its recipient. Interpreting competence implies the ability of the translator to use target-processing strategies that can be targeted. The results of the implementation of the proposed exercises involve the creation of a situation in the English lesson that would clearly reproduce the realities of a modern, competitive interpreter.
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Recesso, Arthur M. "School to Work Opportunities Act Policy--An Effort at Backward Mapping." education policy analysis archives 7 (March 31, 1999): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v7n11.1999.
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This study examined the intent of federal policy and the actual implementation within local school districts. Specifically, the focus is on the Federal School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and its implementation in 47 school districts in upstate New York as part of a consortium during the 1995-96 school year. The purpose of the study was to determine 1) the extent to which an agreement to participate in a consortium arrangement designed to facilitate the implementation of a specific Federal or state policy resulted in the active implementation efforts by individual consortium members, and 2) how a high school setting where School to Work activities were perceived by local stakeholders as having great specific and important effects differed from a high school setting where School to Work activities were perceived by local stakeholders as having some or no effect. A bottom-up backward mapping policy analysis model was used for the purposes of this study. Local level data was used to create performance, environment, technology implementation, and School to Work implementation profiles of local high schools. Regression and correlation analyses were used to determine the relationship between stakeholder perceptions and local high school characteristics. Results of the study were reported and interpreted with the aim of furthering research and knowledge of policy analysis and the use of local level data to determine the success of policy implementation. This study found that variation between federal intent and local adaptation is explained by characteristics of the high school and perceptions of stakeholders. School to Work policy implementation, perceived by the high school administrator as a stakeholder, varied significantly by high school student performance, environment in which the high school operates, and level of technology implementation in the high school. Results indicated that the backward mapping policy analysis model is effective in determining the actual levels of policy implementation. Backward mapping results in a definitive explanation of the role of the local actor and the use of discretion in decision making. The final analysis as a result of backward mapping goes beyond the measurement of policy objectives being met and explains the meaning of local level participation.
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Macnab, Andrew John, Ronald Mukisa, Sharif Mutabazi, and Rachel Steed. "Engaging schools in diagnosis and treatment of malaria: Evidence of sustained impact on morbidity and behavior." GHMJ (Global Health Management Journal) 1, no. 2 (October 31, 2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35898/ghmj-1292.
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Background: In low and middle income countries (LMICs) teachers send home children found sick in class devolving subsequent care to parents; where malaria is endemic, morbidity is high as the most parents fail to access WHO-endorsed rapid diagnostic testing (RDT and prompt treatment with artemisinin combination therapy (ACT). Consequently malaria is the principal reason a child misses school; so, we trained teachers to use RDT to evaluate all sick pupils and give ACT promptly to those positive.Aims: Pre, intra and post intervention evaluation of impact of using the WHO Health Promoting School (HPS) model to empower teachers to provide RDT and ACT and engage and inform pupils about malaria in 4 schools in rural Uganda.Methods: Documenting duration of absence from school as a surrogate measure for morbidity and change in children’s knowledge and reported behaviors regarding malaria. Pre-intervention (year 1) baseline evaluation of days of absence and children’s malaria knowledge/behavior; Intervention (year 2) trained teachers administered RDT in all sick children and treated those positive with ADT; Post-intervention (end of year 3) after schools independently continued RDT/ACT and education on malaria.Results: Pre-intervention <1:5 pupils had basic knowledge about malaria (caused by mosquitos; can be prevented; requires rapid diagnosis and prompt medication). In year 1: 953 of 1764 pupils were sent home due to illness. Mean duration of absence was 6.5 (SD 3.17) school days. In year 2: 1066 of 1774 pupils were sick, all had RDT, 765/1066 (68%) tested positive and received ACT; their duration of absence fell to 0.59 (SD 0.64) school days (p<0.001). By year 2 all children knew the signs and symptoms of malaria and had essential epidemiological knowledge. Twelve months post intervention the universality of this knowledge had been sustained and the whole-school focus on malaria continued. Children reported better health, more consistent attendance and improved academic achievement, and had become proactive in prevention strategies; 6% fewer tested positive for malaria; and key health knowledge was being passed to new pupils.Conclusion: Teacher administered RDT/ACT reduced child morbidity from malaria significantly; essential knowledge was generated and new health practices acquired that changed behaviors. Our WHO HPS model is applicable to other LMICs where malaria is endemic and morbidity high.
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Hilliard, Ann, and Barbara Talbert Jackson. "Current Trends In Educational Leadership For Student Success Plus Facilities Planning And Designing." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 4, no. 1 (January 7, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v4i1.976.
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Many school leaders today are experiencing many challenges to ensure that their schools are successful. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind Act, school leaders have been faced with making sure that all students, regardless of language and/or background, are successful on the state assessment test. If students do not make AYP Annual Yearly Progress based on set standards, the school leader is viewed as not being effective. The school leader/administrator is at the front-line for their school’s progress on a daily basis and just to name a few items, school safety, appropriate curriculum and accommodations for students, high quality instruction service to all students and utilizing technology to enhance instruction and management tasks (Lashway, 2003). This research paper will discuss aspects and trends in leadership in the following areas: leadership standards, leadership development, shared leadership, support for school leadership, change in mission, facility planning and designing, classroom configuration, use of school time, early programs, special programs, school transfer, use of technology and virtual schools.
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Toenjes, Laurence A. "Does Texas’ compensatory education funding get to the intended students?" education policy analysis archives 29 (March 22, 2021): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5786.
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Two questions about Texas school expenditure patterns are examined. First, “How progressive are spending patterns among high and low poverty schools?” Second, “How unequal are expenditures per pupil between schools with at least 70% of their students classified as economically disadvantaged, in different districts?” The data, for school year 2017-2018, are restricted to 3,453 elementary and middle schools in 90 large Texas districts. The schools in each district were divided into high and low poverty groups. The differences in the average per pupil spending for operations between the two groups ranged from plus $1,382 in one district to a negative $802 in another. The average expenditures in schools with at least 70% economically disadvantaged students were 75% greater in one district than in another. It is demonstrated that districts with less extreme average levels of low-income students have more opportunity to act as good Samaritans, generally exhibiting substantially greater spending in their high poverty schools. This finding supports arguments for student funding weights that increase with increasing proportions of economically disadvantaged students. An incidental finding is that a commonly used measure of funding progressivity is a direct function of district and school level variances in poverty averages, and is therefore biased by them.
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Hall, William J., and Mimi V. Chapman. "The Role of School Context in Implementing a Statewide Anti-Bullying Policy and Protecting Students." Educational Policy 32, no. 4 (March 18, 2016): 507–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904816637689.
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Bullying is a significant problem in U.S. schools. Policies have been developed to reduce bullying, yet policy implementation by educators is an essential yet difficult and complex process. Few studies have investigated factors that act as barriers to or facilitators of bullying policy implementation and teacher protection of students. This study examined the influence of school context on educators’ capacity to implement a statewide bullying law and protect students from bullying following the enactment of the policy. Data were collected from 505 educators in 324 schools. School administrators tended to rate fidelity of policy implementation and teacher protection of students higher than teachers, education support professionals, and student service professionals. Policy implementation fidelity scores were higher in high schools than elementary schools. School size and the prevalence of student suspensions were inversely related to implementation fidelity. Higher levels of teacher protection were reported in elementary schools.
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Gilbert, John, and James Concannon. "Differences in Science American College Testing Scores between Traditional and Alternative Science Sequences." Science Education International 31, no. 4 (December 6, 2020): 425–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33828/sei.v31.i4.12.
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To examine differences between sequences of secondary science courses on achievement on science high stakes exams, a purposive quantitative research design was utilized in this study. A short survey was sent out to public high schools in the state of Missouri that asked to identify their main science course sequence. In addition, participants were asked to indicate if they had altered their science course sequence between the years of 2012 and 2017. This data were compared to their average building science American College Testing (ACT) score for the 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 school years in which all 16–17-year-olds in the state were required to take the exam. The analysis of the results found no connection between science course sequence and performance on the science section of the ACT for either year. In addition, it was found that schools that indicated that they altered their science course sequence had no difference in performance on the science portion of the ACT. Further research is needed to determine if there are any benefits to altering a science course sequence.
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Ramsay-Jordan, Natasha. "Preparation and The Real World of Education: How Prospective Teachers Grapple with Using Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in the Age of Standardized Testing." International Journal of Educational Reform 29, no. 1 (September 18, 2019): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056787919877142.
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The most highlighted provision and consequence of the reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, is obsessive practices of assessing students across the United States (U.S.). Despite newly named policies, including Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) of 2015, which governs current U.S. K-12 education standards, concerns over NCLB’s unprecedented fixation on high stakes testing remain acute for many school districts. This manuscript examines the struggles of four preservice secondary mathematics teachers (PMTs) who grappled with enacting culturally responsive teaching practices at schools that aimed to meet accountability standards.
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Kasman, Mukhtar, and Martinis Yamin. "THE MANAGEMENT OF EXCELLENT SCHOOLS IN INSTILLINGRELIGIOUS BEHAVIOR TO THE STUDENTS OFSTATE HIGH SCHOOLS IN NORTH SUMATERA PROVINCE." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 6, no. 9 (September 30, 2018): 220–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i9.2018.1223.
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The present research is aimed to determine the management model of excellent schools in instilling religious behavior to the students at state high schools in North Sumatra Province. This research is useful to enrich the scientific paradigm in the field of Management of Islamic Education, especially studies on the management of excellent schools in instilling religious behavior to their students.
The research used qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used observation, interviews and documentations. The data analysis used Milles and Huberman model, while the data analysis technique used data triangulation. The data were collected in excellent state high schools in North Sumatra with these following subjects: (1) SMA Negeri 2 Plus Martabe Sipirok, Tapanuli Selatan; (2) SMA Negeri 1Plus Matauli Pandan, Tapanuli Tengah; (3) SMA Negeri 2 Plus Panyabungan, Mandailing Natal. The results of this research indicate that, first: the success of management of excellent schools is influenced by inputs and processes in determining the output and outcome of the students’ religious behavior. Second, the management of excellent schools in North Sumatra involves all components of stakeholders, such as foundations, government, and communities, starting from start planning, implementation and supervision and financing. Third, the religious behavior of students in North Sumatra constitutes “aqidah/ Faithful Behavior”, namely the students’ faith in their religion; “Worship behavior”, namely the act of religious rituals in schools; “Almsgiving behavior”, as seen in discipline, cleanliness maintenance, mutual assistance in pluralism; “Ihsan/ Good Deeds Behavior”, namely the students’ sincerity in worships and almsgiving; “Knowledge Behavior”, namely the students’ knowledge of the teachings of their religion. Fourth, the management of excellent schools in North Sumatra in instilling the students’ religious behavior, that is integrated in the humanistic learning approach system, full-day school and boarding school programs.
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Lee, Jaekyung. "How Feasible is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)? Simulations of School AYP "Uniform Averaging" and "Safe Harbor" under the No Child Left Behind Act." education policy analysis archives 12 (April 7, 2004): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v12n14.2004.
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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that schools make “adequate yearly progress” (AYP) towards the goal of having 100 percent of their students become proficient by year 2013-14. Through simulation analyses of Maine and Kentucky school performance data collected during the 1990s, this study investigates how feasible schools would have met the AYP targets if the mandate had been applied in the past with “uniform averaging (rolling averages)” and “safe harbor” options that have potential to help reduce the number of schools needing improvement or corrective action. Contrary to some expectations, the applications of both options would do little to reduce the risk of massive school failure due to unreasonably high AYP targets for all student groups. Implications of the results for the NCLB school accountability system and possible ways to make the current AYP more feasible and fair are discussed.
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Dhaliwal, Tasminda K., Soledad De Gregorio, Ann Owens, and Gary Painter. "Putting Homelessness in Context: The Schools and Neighborhoods of Students Experiencing Homelessness." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 693, no. 1 (January 2021): 158–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220987830.
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The number of K–12 students experiencing homelessness is increasing across the country. Schools may serve as sources of support and stability for homeless children, but little is known about the types of schools that homeless students attend or about the communities in which they live. We investigate the context of student homelessness in Los Angeles by analyzing student-level administrative data from the Los Angeles Unified School District and publicly available data on neighborhoods and schools from school years 2008–2009 to 2016–2017. Our findings suggest that homeless students tend to be clustered within lower-achieving schools with higher concentrations of disadvantaged student groups and live in neighborhoods with higher concentrated disadvantage. Despite policy provisions to ensure stability, homeless students have high rates of school and residential mobility in the years they are homeless, and mobile students tend to move to less-disadvantaged schools. We conclude with policy implications to strengthen the implementation of the federal McKinney-Vento Act.
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Chatterji, Madhabi. "Achievement gaps and correlates of early mathematics achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K—first grade sample. Vol. 13 No. 46." education policy analysis archives 13 (November 23, 2005): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v13n46.2005.
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In light of the NCLB Act of 2001, this study estimated mathematics achievement gaps in different subgroups of kindergartners and first graders, and identified child- and school-level correlates and moderators of early mathematics achievement. A subset of 2300 students nested in 182 schools from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study K-First Grade data set was analyzed with hierarchical linear models. Relative to school mean estimates at the end of kindergarten, significant mathematics achievement gaps were found in Hispanics, African Americans and high poverty students. At the end of Grade 1, mathematics gaps were significant in African American, high poverty, and female subgroups, but not in Hispanics. School-level correlates of Grade 1 Mathematics achievement were class size (with a small negative main effect), at-home reading time by parents (with a large positive main effect) and school size (with a small positive main effect). Cross-level interactions in Grade 1 indicated that schools with larger class and school sizes had a negative effect on African American children's math scores; schools giving more instructional time to reading and math had a positive effect on high poverty students' scores, and schools with higher elementary teacher certification rates had a positive effect on boys' mathematics achievement.
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Ylimaki, Rose M. "Political Risk-Taking: Leading Literacy Education in an Era of High-Stakes Accountability." Journal of School Leadership 15, no. 1 (January 2005): 4–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105268460501500101.
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In the current accountability environment, many school districts have mandated test preparation courses, canned programs, and otherwise limited teacher risk-taking in all but very high-performing schools. This article further suggests that extant literature on risk-taking as part of educational change is no longer sufficient for understanding risk-taking in the current political environment. The author uses findings from a multicase study that investigated what happens in school districts that makes educators willing to take risks and resist the pressures of current accountability policies to redefine risk-taking as a political act. Through the use of interview data, field notes, and literature, the study describes four conditions that support political risk-taking in the current accountability context.
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Brown, Christopher. "Staking out the successful student." education policy analysis archives 13 (February 17, 2005): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v13n14.2005.
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With the performance of students, teachers, and schools defining success under current standards-based accountability policies (e.g. Chicago Public Schools (Note 1); No Child Left Behind Act, (United States Department of Education, 2002)), school districts are implementing various forms of intervention programs as a means to improve student performance. By examining a pilot summer school program that is transitioning from a low-stakes' to a high-stakes' intervention program, this article examines the possibilities that exist for students to author themselves as learners, and it questions whether opportunities for students to identify themselves as successful learners are lost when an intervention program, such as summer school, becomes mandatory. The implications of this analysis highlight questions and concerns that policymakers and school personnel need to address when formulating high-stakes standards-based accountability policies and intervention programs.
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Thio, Li-Ann, and Jaclyn Ling-Chen Neo. "Religious Dress in Schools: The Serban Controversy in Malaysia." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 55, no. 3 (July 2006): 671–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iclq/lei110.
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There has been a spate of litigation before constitutional and human rights courts challenging restrictions on wearing religious dress in state schools as an infringement of religious freedom rights.1 These cases implicate deeper constitutional issues pertaining to State-Religion relations, religious pluralism and expressions of religious identity in the public domain of multicultural societies. Within Europe, this problem relates to the issue of integrating immigrants into national society and preserving secular political orders. The European Court of Human Rights in Leyla Sahin v Turkey2 [‘Sahin’] noted that within democratic societies, opinions ‘reasonably differ widely’ on State-Religion relations, reflected in the diversity of national approaches. For example, the 2004 French law banning ostentatious religious symbols from public schools,3 embodying a strict, doctrinaire secularism, contrasts sharply with the more accommodating liberal approach where British schools pragmatically offer students alternative uniforms to satisfy religious dress codes for public modesty. The English Court of Appeal in Shabina Begum v Governors of Denbigh High School4 [‘Begum’] held, in applying the Human Rights Act,5 that the school as a state institution was obliged to consider the claimant's religious rights under Article 9(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights [ECHR], and to justify its school policy under the Article 9(2) limitation clause. The United Kingdom is ‘not a secular state’6 as statute provides for religious education and worship in schools.
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Khusniyah, Nurul Lailatul. "EVALUATION STUDY OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR INDONESIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS." EDULANGUE 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 36–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/edulangue.v2i1.850.
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The aim of this study is to get the quality of the English textbook for Junior High School that was designed by the government. Is it appropriate with the students and context needs? Method of research is the evaluation method through content analysis. Model of evaluation is Discrepancy Evaluation Model (DEM) to know suitability or unsuitability of textbook using criteria of evaluation. The instrument of assessment has 8 criteria, namely goals, approach, language content, skills, topics, methodology, teacher’s book, and practical consideration. Validation of instrument is judgment expert. The result of research found that the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris Think Globally Act Locally Class IX” has a good quality. It can be seen from the percentage of criteria, such as goals 80.8%, approach 82,8%, language content 81%, skills 81,3%, topics 87%, methodology 78.8%, teacher’s book 56.8%, and practical consideration 82.3%.
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Mudo, Ipenas Amran Malin, Asmah Ahmad, and Md Rosli Ismail. "Sex Differences in the Implementation of Character Education in Senior High Schools." International Journal of Theory and Application in Elementary and Secondary School Education 1, no. 1 (April 30, 2019): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/ijtaese.v1i1.22.
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Character education is the action and attitude of a person who reflects anything with good value. These values can be identified in his daily activities. Therefore, character education is considered very important as an effort to help someone to perceive or to understand and to act based on ethical or moral values. This purpose of this study is to analyze the implementation of character education in senior high schools (SMA) in Ujungbatu, Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau Province based on sex (male and female) differences. In order to answer the problems in the study, descriptive qualitative approach study is designed by using several methods namely interview, observation and documentation. The samples of the study were 339 students from three different high schools; they are SMA 1, SMA 2 and SMA Muhammadiyah. Finding of the study revealed that the four character education value, namely devotion, hard work, discipline, and honesty could be applied to both male and female Muslim and Christian students, and this is to indicate that these character values can be applied to the students. Finally, this character education method applies to students, especially in high school.
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Mudo, Inpenas Amran Malin. "Sex Differences in the Implementation of Character Education in Senior High Schools." International Journal of Theory and Application in Elementary and Secondary School Education 1, no. 1 (April 25, 2019): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/ijtaese.v1i1.4.
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Character education is the action and attitude of a person who reflects anything with good value. These values can be identified in his daily activities. Therefore, character education is considered very important as an effort to help someone to perceive or to understand and to act based on ethical or moral values. This purpose of this study is to analyze the implementation of character education in senior high schools (SMA) in Ujungbatu, Rokan Hulu Regency, Riau Province based on sex (male and female) differences. In order to answer the problems in the study, descriptive qualitative approach study is designed by using several methods namely interview, observation and documentation. The samples of the study were 339 students from three different high schools; they are SMA 1, SMA 2 and SMA Muhammadiyah. Finding of the study revealed that the four character education value, namely devotion, hard work, discipline, and honesty could be applied to both male and female Muslim and Christian students, and this is to indicate that these character values can be applied to the students. Finally, this character education method applies to students, especially in high school.
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Gholami, Javad, Mehdi Sarkhosh, and Heidar Abdi. "An Exploration of Teaching Practices of Private, Public, and Public-Private EFL Teachers in Iran." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 18, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 16–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2016-0002.
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Abstract This study investigates the practices of public (high) school, private language institute, and public-private teachers. In particular, it aims at addressing the role of contextual factors, the variations teachers introduce to cope with them, and the degree of sustainable behaviour among these three groups of teachers. High school teachers consisted of those who taught only in high schools and the ones teaching both in high schools and private language institutes. For this purpose, classroom practices of 60 EFL teachers (N=20 per group) with 3 to 6 years of teaching experience and BA degree in TEF) were compared in terms of group/pair work, teacher talking time, L1 use, questioning, corrective feedback, and coverage of language skills. The findings of the study indicate that a significant difference exists among these three groups of teachers in terms of their practices. It is noteworthy that in the same teaching context of high school, the practices of teachers with and without private language teaching experience are significantly dissimilar except in the duration of pair/group work activities and the rates of repetition and explicit correction. This study suggests that high school EFL teachers with teaching experience in private language institutes subscribe more closely to the tenets of communicative language teaching and thus can act as powerful agents of sustainable language teaching in Iranian public schools.
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Winkworth, Gail, and Morag McArthur. "Breaking into schools: Establishing high quality human services in educational contexts." Children Australia 30, no. 1 (2005): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200010543.
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This paper explores the ACT Government’s investment in a school based human services program. This program aims to improve educational and social outcomes for children and young people by creating effective working relationships between families, communities and their schools. It considers the contemporary challenges to achieving a quality service in a domain not normally inhabited by human services professionals. The main focus of the paper is an analysis of some of the factors which were considered in establishing a high quality service.The paper draws attention to the importance of developing a conceptually sound program model, in particular one which demonstrates how evaluation can be integrated throughout the program cycle. It argues the importance of pursuing two key pathways to quality: the achievement of professional standards in program design, and the pursuit of the consumer voice in shaping and judging program performance.The paper contends that program sustainability in this field of practice hinges on recognising who the consumers are, and achieving a range of outcomes which address their varied needs and priorities.
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Scribner, Campbell F. "“Make Your Voice Heard”: Communism in the High School Curriculum, 1958–1968." History of Education Quarterly 52, no. 3 (August 2012): 351–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2012.00403.x.
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The launch of Sputnik in 1957 sparked a crisis in American education. Suddenly threatened by superior Soviet technology, progressive educators' concern for children's preferences, health, and adjustment in school yielded to public demands for more basic learning and academic skills. Congress soon passed the National Defense Education Act, providing millions of dollars for math, science, and foreign language instruction. By the early 1960s, educators and academics began to reexamine other aspects of the curriculum as well. Their efforts prompted two changes in the social studies: one was a shift from worksheets and memorization to the investigative approach of the “new social studies,” the other a requirement that schools teach about the specter of international Communism. Much has been written about the first of these reforms, surprisingly little about the second. Yet, insofar as the new social studies grew out of Cold War imperatives, instruction about Communism provides an interesting perspective on its tenure in American schools. In fact, a closer examination of the relationship between the two might force us to reconsider current assumptions about the nature of curriculum reform during the period.
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Kojo, Katja, and Päivi Kurttio. "Indoor Radon Measurements in Finnish Daycare Centers and Schools—Enforcement of the Radiation Act." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 8 (April 21, 2020): 2877. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082877.
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Background: Indoor radon exposure is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Finnish radiation legislation obligates employers to measure indoor radon concentrations in workplaces, including schools and daycare centers, if they are in radon prone areas. Surveillance campaigns were conducted to ensure that the required radon measurements were performed and to gain knowledge on current indoor radon levels in daycare centers and schools. Methods: Daycare centers located in the high-radon risk municipalities were identified. Schools where indoor radon level measurements were obligatory but not performed, were identified. Results: Indoor radon measurements were performed in 633 daycare centers where the mean radon concentration was 86 Bq/m3 and the median 40 Bq/m3. The radon level was greater than 300 Bq/m3 in 8% (n = 49) of daycare centers. The radon measurements were performed in 1176 schools, which is 95% of the schools to be measured. The mean radon concentration was 82 Bq/m3 and the median 41 Bq/m3. The radon levels were greater than 300 Bq/m3 in 14% (n = 169) of the schools. Conclusions: The systematic surveillance campaigns by the radiation protection authority were very efficient in order to ensure that the measurements are performed in schools and daycare centers. The campaigns also reduced the radon exposure of employees, children, and adolescents, where necessary.
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Kim, Soobin, Gregory Wallsworth, Ran Xu, Barbara Schneider, Kenneth Frank, Brian Jacob, and Susan Dynarski. "The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on High School Math Course-Taking." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 41, no. 2 (March 11, 2019): 164–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0162373719834067.
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Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC) is a statewide college-preparatory policy that applies to the high school graduating class of 2011 and later. Using detailed Michigan high school transcript data, this article examines the effect of the MMC on various students’ course-taking and achievement outcomes. Our analyses suggest that (a) post-MMC cohorts took and passed approximately 0.2 additional years’ of math courses, and students at low socioeconomic status (SES) schools drove nearly all of these effects; (b) post-policy students also completed higher-level courses, with the largest increase among the least prepared students; (c) we did not find strong evidence on students’ ACT math scores; and (d) we found an increase in college enrollment rates for post-MMC cohorts, and the increase is mostly driven by well-prepared students.
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Zelbo, Sian. "E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans." History of Education Quarterly 59, no. 03 (August 2019): 379–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2019.26.
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When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a “negro” as a teacher of “white youths.” Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public schools. White supremacist Redeemers responded with a vicious propaganda campaign to define, differentiate, and diminish the “negro race.” Edmunds navigated the shifting landscape of race in the New Orleans public schools first as a student and then as a teacher, and the details of his life show the impact on ordinary Afro-Creoles as the city's warring politicians used the public schools both to undermine and reinforce the racial order.
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Jephcott, Donald K. "50-Year Record of Field Act Seismic Building Standards for California Schools." Earthquake Spectra 2, no. 3 (May 1986): 621–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.1585399.
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This paper describes the results of more than 50 years experience with enforcement of building standards for the construction of public school buildings in the State of California, one of the highly active seismic areas of the world. The Field Act, which became effective April 10, 1933, has the stated purpose of providing earthquake resistant facilities for the safety of the occupants and protection of the state property. The performance of Field Act school buildings subjected to high intensity ground motion from five earthquakes of the moderate to major range provides significant evidence of the effectiveness of this seismic hazard mitigation program.
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Alcalá Ibáñez, María Lourdes. "La inspección de enseñanza primaria y la consolidación del sistema escolar en la provincia de Teruel (1849-1900)." Espacio, Tiempo y Educación 3, no. 2 (July 18, 2016): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/ete.2016.003.002.014.
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The Inspectorate of Education in Spain was created in 1849. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the supervision of schools was for the first time in the hands of professional officials that used uniform education criteria for all schools. As delegates of the government, these helped to consolidate the school system, which, after the enactment of the Public Education Act of 1857, was gradually but very significantly implemented throughout the nation. The article describes the operation of the first provincial inspectors in Teruel, a rural province in the interior of Spain, which had high rates of illiteracy and serious problems with school attendance, teacher remuneration, and lack of schools, especially for girls. This article describes the work of the provincial inspectors, who, through their association with the Provincial Board of Education, managed to improve all aspects related to the working and living conditions of teachers: state exams, pay, classification for promotion or regulation of promotions, transfers and substitutions. It also studies the inspection visits to schools, and their contribution to both the improvement in school organization and the teaching methodology used by teachers in one-room schools.
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Akhtar, Rajnaara. "OFSTED V AL-HIJRAH, THE CASE OF SEGREGATED SCHOOLS AND SEX DISCRIMINATION." Denning Law Journal 30, no. 1 (December 6, 2018): 167–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v30i1.1656.
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This case of HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills v The Interim Executive Board of Al-Hijrah School was the unfortunate outcome of an Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection which resulted in a cataclysmic breakdown in trust between the government agency and the Birmingham city based Al-Hijrah school. Following an Ofsted inspection carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005, the subsequent Report stated that the full segregation of female and male pupils in a mixed-sex school amounted to sex discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Al-Hijrah School applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the report prior to its official publication. The High Court Justice considered a range of evidences including facts related to Ofsted procedure, and ruled that the segregation did not amount to a breach of the 2010 Act, as when taken as a group, the treatment of the boys and the girls was the same and so there was an absence of “less favourable treatment”.
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Monaghan, David B., Jamie Hawkins, and Anthony Hernandez. "Dream Adjusters: High School Counselors in a Low-Income School District." Education and Urban Society 52, no. 5 (November 15, 2019): 704–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013124519887712.
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Prior research has discussed high school counselors’ role in students’ experience, but counselors’ understandings of their work and of students has received little commentary. We interviewed counselors in a high-poverty, low-performing urban school district in which two structural elements shape how counselors make sense of their work. First, counselor “success” is contingent on convincing students to act in (what schools see as) students’ own best interest, and many students do not do so. Second, resource constraints severely limit planned one-on-one counseling. We find that counselors see students as both victims of crushing circumstances and as agents actively undermining their own opportunities, as holding ambitions misaligned with performance and as vulnerable to despair. Counselors’ strategies follow from these conceptions: building self-efficacy, emphasizing the importance of goals, and nudging plans toward realizability while maintaining hope. We discuss how counselors cope with the rarity with which they experience professional “success,” given student outcomes.
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Schueler, Beth E., Joshua S. Goodman, and David J. Deming. "Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence From Lawrence, Massachusetts." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 39, no. 2 (January 27, 2017): 311–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0162373716685824.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to identify and turn around struggling schools, with federal school improvement money required to fund evidence-based policies. Most research on turnarounds has focused on individual schools, whereas studies of district-wide turnarounds have come from relatively exceptional settings and interventions. We study a district-wide turnaround of a type that may become more common under ESSA, an accountability-driven state takeover of Massachusetts’s Lawrence Public Schools (LPS). A differences-in-differences framework comparing LPS to demographically similar districts not subject to state takeover shows that the turnaround’s first 2 years produced sizable achievement gains in math and modest gains in reading. We also find no evidence that the turnaround resulted in slippage on nontest score outcomes and suggestive evidence of positive effects on grade progression among high school students. Intensive small-group instruction over vacation breaks may have led to particularly large achievement gains for participating students.
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Urea, Ionela Roxana. "The influences of teacher’ teaching style upon the pupils’ well-being." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 7 (December 31, 2019): 172–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i7.4521.
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Today, teaching is no longer an approach as a simple act. The complexity of the society has led to a more careful study of the teaching process, so that, over the last 10 years, specialists are increasingly discussing about teaching styles as differentiating elements of the quality of educational services offered to students. The present study tries to reveal the impact that teacher’ teaching style has upon the student’s well-being level. We investigated 180 Romanian teachers who teach different disciplines (48.3% at secondary school’ pupils and 51.7% at high school’ pupils), and 385 Romanian pupils: 48.16% coming from secondary schools and 51.84% coming from high schools, aged 10–18 years old. Using specific and adapted investigative tools (The ‘Teaching style questionnaire’ and ‘The Ryff’s Well Being Scale’), we found specific influences of teacher’ teaching style upon the elements that define the well-being level.
Keywords: Teaching style, well-being, pupils, classroom management, educational quality services.