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Principals, parents and pregnancy: A case study of school leadership practices designed to engage families facing pregnancy
(2016)
This qualitative case study focused on contemporary school leadership and parental interrelationships, exploring the relationship, if any, between school leaders and the families of pregnant and parenting urban African ...
An English teacher's design of digital video composing in an urban high school: Impacts on student engagement and learning
(2009)
While local and national initiatives now recognize the need for students to learn and communicate in significantly different ways from the past (NCTE, IRA, NAE), traditional school contexts complicate the integration of ...
The impact of school uniforms in a public high school: A case study
(2008)
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of mandated clothing on the lived experiences of students, administrators and teachers in an urban school. I use qualitative methods to examine in depth how clothing affects ...
Consistency of high school students' expectations with their future educational and career attainments
(2008)
The consistency of high schools students' expectations with their actual educational and occupational attainments was investigated using nationally representative longitudinal data. The results of this study indicated that, ...
Organizational sustainability for high school reform: A case study
(2011)
Traditional comprehensive public high schools have proven to be difficult to change. Governing mandates, economic, social, and technological changes are some of the forces defining the need for our schools to change, but ...
The discourse of diversity in a working-class high school
(2005)
This qualitative dissertation explores the implementation of a school-based diversity initiative mounted in a Northeastern suburban high school. Since it addresses the processes and outcomes of a non-traditional model of ...
The relationship between college-level learning in high school and post-secondary academic success
(2009)
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of college-level learning in high school on the post secondary academic success of first term, full time freshman (FTFT) students. This study was conducted by analyzing ...
Private spaces in public places: Class in a suburban, public high school
(2009)
This research is an ethnographic study examining the identity development among high school students in a predominantly white, suburban, high performing public high school in Lumpkin County. Focusing on the school space, ...
Teacher-student relationships and high school student misbehavior
(2016)
Teacher-student relationships, when perceived by students as positive, may pull students into schools; when perceived by students as negative, TSRs may push students out of school (Stearns & Glennie, 2006). Similarly, ...