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Stoiber, Karen C.; Gettinger, Maribeth; Bella, Zachary A.; Monahan, K. Leigh – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2022
This study evaluates a consultation coaching model aimed to improve positive-learning environment practices and teachers' instructional style and affect in early childhood (EC) classrooms. Teachers in 15 EC classrooms participated as consultees. The consultative coaches received training that included learning (a) specific content based on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Coaching (Performance), Educational Environment, Teaching Styles
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Taylor, Henry Louis; McGlynn, Linda; Luter, D. Gavin – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Where you find distressed neighborhoods, you will also find poorly performing public schools. Yet many contemporary school reform efforts ignore neighborhood-level factors that undeniably impact school performance. The purpose of this study is to use a case study approach with social institutional and urban school reform regime frameworks to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Role, Neighborhood Improvement, Case Studies
Brooks-Gun, Jeanne; And Others – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Examined the impact of individual environmental and biological risks on the home environment of three-year olds in a sample of low birth weight, premature infants. Suggests that compared to nonpoor families, poor families experienced more multiple risk factors. Poverty clearly had a negative effect on the provision of learning experiences,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1992
In the 1980s and the early 1990s Congress failed to approve enterprise zone legislation which sought to help revitalize areas of high unemployment, poverty, and crime and low educational achievement by reducing taxes, relieving regulation, and eliminating other barriers to development. Establishment of comprehensive and sustained enterprise zone…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Federal Aid