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Diamond, Karen E.; Baroody, Alison E. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Associations among children's writing and alphabetic skills were examined in a sample of 502 prekindergarten children who were at risk of academic failure because they came from poor families, spoke a language other than English at home, or had an identified disability. In this sample of children at risk of school failure, 16% had an identified…
Descriptors: Correlation, At Risk Students, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Werblow, Jacob; Urick, Angela; Duesbery, Luke – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
Academic tracking has been shown to limit the quality of student instructional opportunities, decrease students' perceptions of their abilities, and negatively influence student achievement. These factors associated with academic tracking also may influence students in lower tracks to learn less and ultimately to drop out of high school. Few…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Academic Failure, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Ingalls, Lawrence; Hammond, Helen; Trussell, Robert P. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2011
This study investigated the past special education programs and services provided to children and youth who later became incarcerated. Participants in this study were inmates from a medium security state correctional facility in the southwest region of the United States. All inmates involved in this study were identified as having a disability and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Public Education, Program Evaluation