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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 ...
The Role of Interscholastic Sport in Public High Schools: A Zero-Sum Game or a Bridge to Success?
(2012)
This study examines the impact of interscholastic sport on academic and delinquent outcomes at the school-level. Two theories are used to assess the relationship between schools' interscholastic sport participation rates ...
The relationship between parental involvement and 12 th grade math achievement
(2014)
Parental home and school involvement at 10 th grade of a nationally representative sample from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) were analyzed to determine its impact on the math achievement of 12 th ...
Rethinking reproduction: The role of one private, Catholic, and all-girl high school in the identity development of the young women who attend
(2005)
This research is a qualitative study examining the identity development among high school females in a private, Catholic, and all-girl setting. Focusing on the school space, it explores the role of the school in the formation ...
Sustaining student interest in STEM: A study of the impact of secondary education environments (school & home) on students' inclination, achievement and continued interest in math
(2011)
Math students' academic and math climates provide an atmosphere for initial and sustained achievement across their high school experience. Students who were once interested in a math-related college major become at risk ...
Exploring explanatory individual related factors of high school dropout
(2014)
This study aims to discover the rates of 12th graders staying at school and dropping out of school, and to explore the individual related factors contributing to the statuses, employing the data from database Education ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...