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Direct linkVillavicencio, Adriana – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Since the early 1980s, young women have outpaced men in educational outcomes. The gender gap is even more pronounced among Black and Latinx students. Moreover, these academic gaps have widened since the pandemic. Based on a five-year study of a district-wide initiative designed to improve academic outcomes for Black and Latino males, Adriana…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Minority Group Students, Males
Peer reviewedPorter, Andrew C.; Polikoff, Morgan S. – Educational Policy, 2012
Recent years have seen increased attention to the high school-college transition. Students are enrolling in college in record numbers, yet they are also taking increasing numbers of remedial courses. How to measure and report on academic readiness for college is an important policy issue receiving attention from the National Assessment Governing…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Learning Readiness, Educational Policy, High School Graduates
Cavey, Laurie O.; Mahavier, W. Ted – Mathematics Teacher, 2010
Responding to students' questions is a critical part of teaching mathematics. A particular response may either stifle a student's inquiry or, ideally, stimulate his or her interest in mathematics. Although formulating responses that have the potential to engage students in developing new mathematical insights is challenging, the authors believe…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Seminars, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Teachers
Download full textNational Assembly on School-Based Health Care, 2012
Poor academic outcomes and high dropout rates are major concerns of educators, policy makers, and parents alike--and poor health severely limits a child's motivation and ability to learn. Recent research confirms that "health disparities affect educational achievement". Improving students' health is integral to education reform.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, School Health Services, Learning Readiness
Donohue, Nicholas C. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The past five decades have produced a tremendous archive of important and interesting strategies, frameworks and practices aimed at improvement in public education. Yet despite the vast set of knowledge generated by this work, gains have not been significant enough nor sustained. Young people still arrive at postsecondary institutions ill-prepared…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Public Education, High Schools, Educational Improvement
Bushaw, William J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Three highly regarded organizations, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) International, and the Lumina Foundation for Education, undertook an important project to collect the opinions of middle school students using a scientific polling process. The idea to poll middle school students took shape…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Needs, Secondary Education
