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Direct linkLaura Ancira – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The school-to-prison pipeline has been an ongoing phenomenon for many decades that disproportionately and negatively impacts students of color. Due to research suggesting school principals play a critical role in the student disciplinary decision-making process, the present study aimed to better understand how principals make discipline decisions…
Descriptors: Principals, Decision Making, Discipline, Middle School Students
Download full textGraham, Georgia – Houston Independent School District, 2021
Since 2007, nineteen Houston Independent School District (HISD) campuses have partnered with Literacy Now to offer the Reading Intervention program. The Reading Intervention program provides individualized, small group reading tutorials for at-risk students in kindergarten to second grade to create proficient readers by the end of third grade.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Houston Independent School District, 2017
This report contains the 2016-2017 evaluation on the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)/Home Visiting Grant program. HIPPY is a school readiness program that helps parents prepare their preschool children for academic success. A total of 762 children ages 3 to 5 and their parents participated in the Houston Independent…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, School Readiness, Preschool Children
Holmes, Venita – Houston Independent School District, 2016
During the 2015-2016 academic year, the parents of 4,974 students participated in APTT [Academic Parent Teacher Teams] at 10 Title 1 elementary schools in the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Students were predominately economically disadvantaged and at risk of dropping out of school. The impact of the program was assessed using the…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teamwork, Elementary Schools, At Risk Students
Houston Independent School District, 2016
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for Houston Independent School District (HISD) student participants. A total of 637 three to five-year children, along with their parents, participated in the HISD HIPPY program during the 2015-2016 academic…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Preschool Children, Home Visits, Parent Participation
Houston Independent School District, 2016
Parent, school, and community engagement is widely established as a collaborative strategy to improve the school experience and educational outcomes for children and youth (Epstein & Sanders, 2006; SEDL, 2013; Weiss, Lopez, & Rosenberg, 2011; Barr & Saltmarsh, 2014). Consistent with this viewpoint, the Houston Independent School…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, School Community Relationship, School Districts
Houston Independent School District, 2014
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for HISD student participants. A total of 577 students and their parents participated in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) HIPPY program during the 2013-2014 academic year, which was more than…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Program Descriptions
Redd, Zakia; Princiotta, Daniel; Stratford, Brandon; Caal, Selma; Li, Weilin; Murphy, Kelly; Coffey, Amelia; Carrington, Nicholas; Carney, Rachel; Oster, Maryjo; Horton, Susannah – Child Trends, 2015
J.C. Nalle is a Community School located in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of Ward 7 in Washington, D.C. The community in which J.C. Nalle is located, historically one of the more economically disadvantaged areas of the city, has experienced a number of changes in recent years. This report of evaluation findings begins with an introduction to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Economically Disadvantaged, Community Schools, Partnerships in Education
Morgan, Yvette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A school-family-community partnership to improve student achievement was examined at a comprehensive high school located in a low income urban community in Long Island City, New York. In this causal comparative analyses study, the researcher examines the effect of a school-family-community partnership on the educational outcomes of economically…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Program Effectiveness
Using Meta-Analysis to Explain Variation in Head Start Research Results: The Role of Research Design
Shager, Hilary M.; Schindler, Holly S.; Hart, Cassandra M.D.; Duncan, Greg J.; Magnuson, Katherine A.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
Head Start was designed as a holistic intervention to improve economically disadvantaged, preschool-aged children's cognitive and social development by providing a comprehensive set of educational, health, nutritional, and social services, as well as opportunities for parent involvement (Zigler & Valentine, 1979). Given the current interest in ECE…
Descriptors: Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedBolivar, Jose M.; Chrispeels, Janet H. – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
Inequality of access to educational resources by different social classes has been widely documented, and schools have instituted parent programs to ameliorate this situation. However, lacking are theoretically based studies that explain how and why a program may be effective in bringing about change. The authors studied a 12-week parent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Educational Resources, Leadership Training
Texas Center for Educational Research, 2012
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, is a federally-funded system of grants that focuses on preparing low-income students to enter and succeed in postsecondary educational programs. GEAR UP grants extend across 6 school years and require that funded districts begin providing grant services to students no…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Students
Maloney, Catherine; Lopez, Omar – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2012
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, is a federally-funded system of grants that focuses on preparing low-income students to enter and succeed in postsecondary educational programs. GEAR UP grants extend across 6 school years and require that funded districts begin providing grant services to students no…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Students
Texas Center for Educational Research, 2011
The federal Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, or GEAR UP, project strives to equalize low-income students' access to higher education by increasing their participation in rigorous coursework, providing expanded opportunities for low-income students and parents to learn about postsecondary educational opportunities…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Students
Webster-Stratton, Carolyn; Reid, M. Jamila; Stoolmiller, Mike – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: School readiness, conceptualized as three components including emotional self-regulation, social competence, and family/school involvement, as well as absence of conduct problems play a key role in young children's future interpersonal adjustment and academic success. Unfortunately, exposure to multiple poverty-related risks increases…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence, Self Management
