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2. Examining School Sector and Mission in a Landscape of Parental Choice
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Julie W. Dallavis
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Researchers have considered how school choice policies affect student achievement, but less inquiry explores how the organization of schools may change in the presence of choice. This descriptive and exploratory paper analyzes a state representative sample of school mission statements at two time points: before the enactment of choice policies in Indiana, namely the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, and again six years into the policy. Using structural topic modeling, this paper examines whether and how school mission statements topics have changed over this period. Descriptive findings suggest mission statement topics differ significantly between sectors but show few changes over time. The most striking shift is that Catholic and other private religious schools appear to be clarifying the religious aspects of their mission in the presence of robust choice policies. more...
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- 2024
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3. 'Dios Nos Hizo Diferentes': Children's Spiritual Activism in an EFL Classroom
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Angie Marroquin and Anna Carolina Peñaloza
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Though language education and research have pushed back against traditional, hegemonic ways of teaching, they continue to exclude conversations on spirituality. Moreover, a deficit lens in language education perpetuates a focus on what needs to be improved rather than on our students' assets. In this pedagogical intervention, we begin by weaving the work of feminists of color to discuss what asset-based, desired-based research and feminist pedagogy can contribute to understanding children's spiritual activism. We worked with 31 fourth graders in a private school in Duitama, Colombia. As the study took place during the pandemic and mass mobilizations, the children shared their spirituality to cope with reality. Furthermore, the children's spirituality demonstrated their belief in a higher power, positive emotions to comfort others, hope for a better future, and an understanding of equity based on race and gender. We invite language educators and researchers to create spaces for children to share their spiritual activism through the integration of feminist pedagogy focused on asset and desire-based approaches. more...
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- 2024
4. Enriching Middle School Students' Learning through Digital Storytelling: A Multimodal Analytical Framework
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Deoksoon Kim, Ho-Ryong Park, and Oksana Vorobel
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Purpose: This study investigates middle school students' learning experiences through digital storytelling, applying a multimodal analytical framework to uncover patterns in digital stories. This study explores how participants engage in pedagogical activities, reflect on their learning experiences, and articulate their voices through digital stories. Design/Approach/Methods: Employing qualitative case study methods, we purposefully selected three 12-year-old female students at an urban school in the northern US. Analyses of digital stories and other data sources (interviews, classroom observations, and reflective journals) show that the students were engaged in both teaching and reflection. Findings: The findings describe (1) participants and their learning experiences, (2) students' representational and interpersonal constructs as used in their digital stories, and (3) their participation as teachers as well as learners. Originality/Value: Our multimodal analytical framework illuminates how students express themselves through digital stories. Our discussion focuses on students' learning, their identity development, the effectiveness of the analytical framework, and pedagogical implications. more...
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- 2024
5. When Anti-CRT Becomes Anti-Care: Navigating Curricular Controversies Amid Voucher-Induced Changes to a Private Religious School Landscape
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Kierstin Giunco and Kathleen M. Sellers
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As access to private religious education expands through vouchers, public discourse has positioned these schools as politically neutral spaces. Teachers who seek to ethically care for students are thus placed in a predicament. In this article, we present the fictive case study of a middle school teacher in a suburban Catholic school that has accepted vouchers and consequently undergone significant demographic and political shifts. When the teacher makes a curricular decision that responds in caring and critical ways to their students, they face a wave of parental opinions that call their instruction and ethical aims into question. more...
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6. Infusing Sustainability in Secondary School Economics Education
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Mizzi, Emanuel
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This research article discusses the theme of the infusion of sustainability in school economics. It stems from the researcher's study that explores teaching and learning in secondary school economics in Malta. The underlying conceptual framework for this study is critical realism, which offers an understanding of the world that is real, but which may be differently experienced and interpreted by different observers (Alderson, 2021; Bhaskar, 1979; Fletcher, 2017). This paper draws upon observation sessions and interviews with fourteen economics teachers. The researcher used thematic analysis to analyze data (Braun & Clarke, 2006) with the help of Nvivo software. The participants regarded education for sustainable development as a prominent theme. Furthermore, they educated their students to reflect on how their choices affected not only themselves but also others and cultivated an awareness of social justice in them. The considerations raised by this paper can assist teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in their reflections and efforts relating to enhancing the sustainability dimension in school economics education and other subjects. more...
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- 2023
7. The Positive Impacts of a Professional Learning Community Model on Student Achievement in Small Schools
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Christina Mariani-Petroze
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This study explores the impact of professional learning communities on student achievement in a small school setting. Aaron Hansen's book, "How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools," offered a guide for arranging vertical, grade-level teams with one teacher per grade level at one private, K-8 school. The faculty engaged in high quality, effective professional development using PLC objectives and norms to analyze NEWA MAP data. They adapted instructional practices and implemented formative assessments to influence student growth in math and reading scores. Results indicate that the PLC training that took place between the Fall and Winter MAP testing cycles positively impacted student growth results from Winter to Spring tests. Research limitations are addressed in the discussion section. more...
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- 2023
8. Student Reports of Bullying: Results from the 2019 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Web Tables. NCES 2022-031
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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (ED/IES), Synergy Enterprises, Inc., Burns, Erin, Mann, Rebecca, and Yanez, Christina
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The tables in this report include data from the 2019 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These tables show the extent to which students, ages 12 through 18, with different characteristics report being bullied, including estimates by student sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and household income. The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) appended additional data from the 2017-18 Common Core of Data (CCD) and the 2017-18 Private School Universe Survey (PSS) to the SCS data to show the extent to which bullying victimization is reported by students in schools with different characteristics. The SCS tables show the relationship between reported bullying victimization and other crime-related variables, such as reported presence of gangs, guns, drugs, alcohol, and hate-related graffiti at school; selected school security measures; student criminal victimization; and personal fear of attack or harm, avoidance behaviors, fighting, and weapon carrying at school. The 2019 SCS included an embedded, randomized, split-sample experiment to compare two versions of an updated series of questions on bullying and to test changes in wording for several additional items in sections assessing student participation in activities, availability of drugs at school, and gang presence at school. more...
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- 2022
9. Flirting with the Fascination and Fear of Black Boys: Racial Phobias and Policing Interracial Dating in a Private Catholic High School
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Daniel J. Thomas III
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Black men and boys have been constructed as libidinous threats to white womanhood and white racial purity since the sixteenth century. In the wake of the landmark "Brown" decision, white citizens fused the Black male rapist trope with segregation theology to create private segregation academies to minimize Black-white contact. These schools remain more segregated than traditional public schools. The participants in this study were recruited to a private Catholic high school where the entire Black population was made up of Black boys who played a sport and whose interracial relationships with white girls triggered resistance. Drawing from qualitative data, the purpose of this paper is to highlight five Black boys' experiences with phallic-based Negrophobia in a predominantly white and private Catholic high school. Findings reveal that participants realized they were transgressing institutional boundaries to preserve a racial order, and their transgressions were constantly policed and monitored. more...
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- 2024
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10. Identifying the Characteristics Necessary to Create a Successful President-Principal Team in a Private Independent All-Girls Catholic High School
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Jo-Anne Hurlston
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to expound upon the research conducted by R.L Brown (2004), W. Dygert (2000), J.T. James (2009), M. Daniels (2013) and B. Regan (2015). Their focus was to look carefully at the President-Principal Model (PPM) in order to better understand the efficacy of introducing this administrative team structure to private, independent, all-girls Catholic high schools. This study expands their work seeking what leadership skills, personal characteristics and values are necessary in presidents and principals who serve in all-girls Catholic high schools in the US and have adopted the PPM. The goal of any Catholic school that would like to administer through the PPM is to have a consistent description of these roles in order for the president and principal to work together toward student success. Through focus groups and checklists, patterns became evident as to which skills, characteristics and values were deemed most important in the building of a successful, collaborative, administrative leadership team. These details were the foundation for the creation of a guide to assist search committees and interviewing teams when selecting the best suited candidates for the positions of president and principal in all-girls Catholic high schools in the US. This research has determined that the success of this model was largely dependent upon the amalgamation of the leadership skills, personal characteristics and values relationship between the president and the principal. In addition, this study researched the when, why and purpose of the position of president in the current governance of all-girls Catholic high schools; how the President-Principal Model was formed; and what effect this administrative leadership model has had on the school community. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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- 2024
11. The Spatiality of Economic Maldistribution in Public-School Funding in Australia: Still a Poisonous Debate
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Katrina MacDonald, Amanda Keddie, Scott Eacott, Jane Wilkinson, Jill Blackmore, Richard Niesche, and Brad Gobby
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This paper analyses the composition, distribution, and history of school funding in Australia through a spatial lens (Soja 2010). We explore multi-scalar school funding policy through three layers of economic maldistribution. We sketch the funding disparities between the three school sectors (public, Catholic, and independent) exposing a spatial injustice in policies of school choice; the spatial and economic maldistribution between state jurisdictions; and the economic maldistribution within state public systems, including the ability of their school communities to contribute funds. Spatial injustice is uncovered in economic maldistribution within and across these policy layers, adding nuance to existing school funding debates. The Australian case is relevant to international explorations of school funding as an example of 'unjust practice' in the hierarchies between schools across sectors, between jurisdictions, and within systems of public education. more...
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12. Lebanese Catholic Schools: Past Achievements and Contemporary Challenges in Times of Economic Distress and COVID 19 Pandemic
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Maha Mouchantaf
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Lebanon is currently trapped in a full-scale emergency. Apart from the Syrian refugee mass influx of 2011, which had led the country to severe social and economic constraints, a civic uprising ignited in October 2019 against an incompetent government accused of sectarianism and corruption by the Lebanese people. Thousands of peaceful protesters from different religions and social classes assembled in cities across the country calling for social and economic reforms. Frustration and public anger have escalated in recent years over government's failure to manage the country's waste and economic crisis. Lebanon currently confronts a debt, fiscal, currency and banking crisis which inevitably impacted its educational sector. Unlike many countries where public schools are most commonly frequented, Lebanon relies on its private schools including Catholic Schools to educate two-third of students. The current crises are forcing working class families to pull their children out of private schools into the state system. more...
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13. Situated Enactments of Global Competence in Three Schools in Victoria
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Harsha Chandir and Jill Blackmore
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The OECD's PISA is seen as a 'global yardstick' against which countries measure the quality of their education systems. In 2018 PISA included an assessment of global competence. This paper starts with the premise that in using a single global instrument to 'measure' this phenomenon, PISA claims standardisation over contextually rich data that can then inform policy and, arguably, in turn practice. Data for this study is based on tracking 'global competence' through documentary analysis, interviews, and then 'survey encounters' where PISA global competence questionnaire items were discussed by principals and teachers in three schools in Victoria, Australia. The analysis illustrates that schools and teachers variously educate for global competence according to the specific cultural context, policy and curriculum in ways that highlight the inadequacy of a global metric. With the growing attention to educating for global citizenship and the OECD's development of global measures, this investigation of localised understandings of global competence magnifies the 'situatedness' of knowledge (and therefore assessment practices). Questions are raised about what is ignored in metrics when such a contested concept is operationalised, and points to the lack of validity of this metric because it de-contextualises how global competence is understood by teachers and enacted in curriculum. more...
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- 2024
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14. A Policy Analysis of Parental Leave Policies in Catholic Secondary Schools
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Michelle L. Hartmann, Dominic A. Key, and Kathleen O. O’Sullivan
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This report analyzes the parental leave policies of secondary Catholic schools across the United States. Current research suggests Catholic schools lack the ability to provide parental leave, which aligns with the methods and length recommended by various organizations, including the Vatican, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and various medical and professional organizations. The project team was able to identify six criteria that are vital in determining effective policies, including duration of paid maternity leave, duration of paid paternal leave, types of leave, inclusivity in the types of employees offered leave, communication, and awareness of policies to community members and flexibility in scheduling leave. Within these six criteria, 26 indicators were developed for scoring purposes. The team sought to understand if secondary archdiocesan and independent schools adequately provide paid parental leave to employees. Specifically, the team wanted to determine the number of schools in the team's sample data that provided adequate leave based on these indicators. The team requested policies from more than 125 Catholic secondary schools to analyze current parental leave standards. Thirty-four of these schools shared their policies with the team. The team utilized a matrix to track the efficacy of policies, examine the strengths and weaknesses of each school's policy, and find trends among the sample schools. This report analyzes the project's findings and provides recommendations for future research and questions about developing future policies. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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- 2024
15. Recruiting the 'Quality Teacher': Equity, Faith, and Passion
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Meghan Stacey and Nicole Mockler
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The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted analysis of advertisements for teaching positions gathered across the public, Catholic and independent school sectors, to explore how schools and school sectors construct images of the "good" or "quality" teacher. Findings indicate a stronger focus on the "person" of the teacher in independent schools; and a surprising lack of pedagogical concerns within any sector. Our contribution is novel in first, using a relatively untapped data source to explore how the figure of the teacher is constructed in the public domain; and second, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between teachers and schools in the marketing of educational products. more...
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16. Drawing Attention to Attitudes toward Scientists: Changes in 10- to 13-Year-Old Students as a Result of a GeoCamp Experience in New Zealand
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Louise Milne, Maurice M. W. Cheng, and Joseph G. Prebble
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This paper reports on a two-week Earth Science programme, designed and delivered by the New Zealand Crown Research Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS Science) referred to as the GeoCamp. This initiative has offered 10- to 13-year-old students learning experiences outside the classroom in several regions throughout New Zealand. The programme discussed in this paper was held in the Wairarapa region in the south-east of the North Island. We examined 23 students' attitudinal changes toward scientists and science. Data collection reported in this paper occurred on the first day of the programme and six months later, when students were asked to draw annotated diagrams of scientists. Our results indicate that students participating in the camp broadened their views of scientists from being stereotypically eccentric chemists in lab coats, to those being aligned with real-world scientists, i.e. not being eccentric, some being females, some working outdoors, and being collaborative. They also recognized that scientists engage in a diverse range of work, and suggested some specific problems that they would like to solve if they were to be scientists. We suggest that these results reveal affective learning outcomes of this Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) approach. more...
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17. Catholic Schools in the Marketplace: Changing and Enduring Religious Identities
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Clara Fontdevila, Adrián Zancajo, and Antoni Verger
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Despite controversies surrounding faith-based schooling, religious schools continue to play a prominent role in numerous education systems. Nonetheless, empirical research on nonstate religious schools operating in a market context remains limited and fragmented. On the one hand, while religious and cultural studies investigate the evolution of religious education (RE), they tend to focus on state schools while overlooking the impact of market forces. On the other hand, research on education markets often treats religious private schools as a uniform category with a fixed identity. This study aims to bridge this gap by delving into the responses of religious private schools to competitive pressures, focusing on how these schools negotiate their religious identities in a market context. With this objective, the paper presents a case study of Catholic school networks in Catalonia, Spain. We identify three different approaches to RE and religious identity developed by these school networks--confessional, culture-centric and value-centric. The triggering factors and enabling conditions behind these approaches are examined in detail. The study concludes by discussing the relevance of these findings for ongoing debates around the public funding of faith-based schools and the tensions posed by such policies in terms of social cohesion, educational pluralism, and equity. more...
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18. Exploring the Extent to Which 'Spiritual Capital' Is Impactful in a Cross-Section of Catholic Independent Schools with a Founding Religious Trusteeship
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John Lydon and Maureen Glackin
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Gerald Grace (2002. "Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets and Morality." London: Routledge), borrowing from the sociological constructs of Pierre Bourdieu, speaks of the significance of the spiritual and cultural capital of religious orders in providing a substantial catalyst in the development of Catholic education in England and Wales. This article endeavours to explore the extent to which spiritual capital remains impactful in a cross-section of Catholic Independent schools with a founding religious trusteeship in the UK, taking into account the changing ecclesial demography within the Catholic Church in the UK alongside contemporary education challenges. Following a critical retrieval of literature relating to the concept of spiritual capital, this article will classify and interpret research evidence based interviews with headteachers of a range of Catholic Independent schools. more...
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19. Staying Power: Exploring Motivating Factors Influencing Teacher Retention in Pacific Northwest Catholic Private Schools
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Trista Casey
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This study investigated the factors influencing retention among Catholic private school teachers in the Pacific Northwest, focusing on motivational and external elements. Employing a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews with five teachers, I delved into the impact of intrinsic motivators like leadership and school culture as well as concerns about extrinsic factors such as salary. The findings suggest that reasons for teacher retention vary among individuals and emphasize the need for personalized support and encouragement. This research informs administrators and policymakers about teachers' perspectives and areas requiring attention to foster career longevity. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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20. Tensions in Data Use for Mission: Academic Data within Holistic Education
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Mary F. Jones and Julie Dallavis
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Purpose: Research shows data-informed leadership matters for school improvement and student achievement, but less is known about what motivates leaders' data use toward such outcomes, particularly in the Catholic school context. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative interview study uses interview (n = 23) data from a sample of Catholic school leaders to unpack how they conceptualize data, the motivations encouraging their data use and the challenges inhibiting data routines. Findings: Catholic school leaders largely shared a narrow definition of data as quantitative, standardized achievement data, were motivated by a moral imperative to meet students' needs and faced several common challenges, including time constraints, uncertainty in measurement, limited capacity and resources and issues of turnover at the classroom and school levels. Practical implications: School leaders can assuage tension around data by broadening the scope of measures and appealing to teachers' sense of personal responsibility and commitment to students. Originality/value: These findings extend the research in three ways. They bring to light an important tension between data-informed practice and a whole child approach to education, highlight the possibility of motivating data use through conscience rather than compliance and provide insight into data perceptions in private schools, an understudied context in the literature. more...
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21. Unveiling Leadership Priorities: A Comparative Study of Principal Time Use across High School Types
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Yongmei Ni, Bichu Li, Yu Su, and Jiangang Xia
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Purpose: As responsibilities of high school principals continue to expand, their workweeks become longer, and their attention is stretched in multiple directions. How principals from various school types use their time is influenced by their organizational structures and external policies. To gain deeper insights into the workload, priorities and constraints faced by high school principals, this study examines principal time use (PTU) patterns across different school types, including traditional public schools (TPSs), charter schools, Catholic schools and non-Catholic private schools. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on the national representative data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 in the USA, this study examines and compares PTU in various leadership tasks across different school types, controlling for school and principal characteristics. Findings: Among various high school types, principals in TPS had the longest workweeks. However, the extended workweek did not necessarily result in significantly more hours or a larger proportion of their time dedicated to instructional leadership. Instead, TPS principals allocated more time to administrative tasks and student affairs than principals in other school types. Originality/value: By examining PTU of different school types, this study adds new evidence on the influence of contextual factors on leadership behavior. It also offers policy implications to enhance principals' capacities, alleviate their workload and to prioritize time use in different leadership domains. more...
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22. Employment and the Structure of Colleges as Barriers to College Match and Degree Completion for Latinx First-Generation College Students
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Laura Nichols and Maria Valle
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Undermatching, or students attending less selective colleges than they are academically qualified to attend, is seen as a contributing factor to the lagging college completion rate of low-income and first-generation college students. Addressing the mismatch has been mainly limited to the individual level. Through analysis of interview and longitudinal school administrative data with aspiring first-generation college low-income Latinx youth who started preparing to attend college in middle school, we find that the need to work, which students started doing in high school, was a major factor in students' undermatching. We show how employment collides with the structure of colleges as racialized organizations (Ray, 2019), especially matching colleges with high graduation rates. Selective colleges did not provide the support students needed to address their financial situations, and students attending schools to which they undermatched required more assistance navigating work and schools to stop them from dropping out. We also discuss program and policy solutions to address the low college completion rates of Latinx first-generation college students more fully as well as how to better support their need to work. more...
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23. 'I Didn't Care about Enrollment:' Investigating Catholic School Leader Perceptions of the COVID Era Return to In-Person Instruction
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Andrew F. Miller
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Many Catholic schools in the U.S. resumed in-person instruction in 2020-2021 sooner than public schools. But little research has examined whether Catholic school leaders made these decisions in light of parents' preferences for in-person instruction. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of interviews with Catholic school leaders examining these dynamics in a single Northeastern city. Findings indicate leaders' decisions were focused on meeting the needs of those parents who had previously made the choice to enroll students at their schools and not on increasing enrollment as its own end. Several implications of these findings are highlighted in the discussion. more...
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24. An Intersectional Examination of the Trajectories of Student Science Identity Growth among Secondary and Postsecondary Students
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Maryellen Gaughen Morrissey
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This study used gain scores and linear regression equations to examine the role of race, socioeconomic status, and school control (public or Catholic/private) on student science identity growth trajectories. The participants of this study were 18,837 students who were followed from the beginning of secondary education to three years after graduation from secondary school into postsecondary education/work. The study employed a non-experimental, descriptive, longitudinal, retrospective quantitative research design and explored racially and economically diverse secondary and post-secondary data from 2009 to 2016. Substantial variability is apparent. The results highlight that neither race, gender, SES, nor school control alone can predict the student science identity trajectories at the intersection of race, gender, SES, and school control. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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- 2024
25. School Climate, Student Engagement and Academic Achievement across School Sectors in Australia
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Wojtek Tomaszewski, Ning Xiang, and Yangtao Huang
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Driven by the focus on standardised assessment and performance-driven accountability, a considerable body of literature has documented differences in students' academic achievement across school sectors, both internationally and in Australia. However, few studies have to date explored the potential mechanisms underlying such differences, particularly through the lens of school climate and student engagement. And despite extensive literature on school climate and student engagement, including their relationships with achievement, the differences in these patterns across school sectors remain under-studied. In this paper, we leverage nationally representative data from a large-scale longitudinal survey in Australia with linked administrative data on student achievement to reveal different patterns of school climate and student engagement across government, Catholic and independent sectors. Employing multivariable regression analyses, we identify unique school climate and student engagement facets that are associated with improved achievement in each of these sectors, offering important pointers for educational policies. more...
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26. The School to Family Pipeline: What Do Religious, Private, and Public Schooling Have to Do with Family Formation?
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Wolf, Patrick J., Cheng, Albert, Wang, Wendy, and Wilcox, W. Bradford
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Private religious schools are widely seen as value-laden communities that mold the character of their students. Thus, we expect adults who attended religious schools as children to demonstrate more favorable family outcomes related to stable marriages and childbearing. We further expect Protestant schooling to have a more powerful effect on marital outcomes than Catholic schooling, given the heavier focus of Protestantism on marriage. Finally, we expect stronger positive associations between religious schooling and marital outcomes for adults who grew up in difficult circumstances compared to adults who grew up in advantaged circumstances. We test these hypotheses using survey data from the Understanding America Study. Our three outcome variables are ever marrying and never divorcing, ever divorcing, and conceiving a child out-of-wedlock. Most of the results confirm our hypotheses. Protestant schooling is associated with more positive marital outcomes across all three measures. Catholic schooling is significantly correlated with a lower likelihood of having a child outside of marriage. The associations between religious schooling and desirable marriage outcomes are strongest for adults who grew up poor and for those raised in intact families. more...
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- 2022
27. A Study of Perceived Principal Instructional Leadership and Its Relationship to Student Achievement in Private High Schools
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Shelton, Jessica Langlois
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This quantitative study investigated whether a relationship existed between principal's instructional leadership behavior and college readiness as measured by ACT scores in Catholic and private schools in south Louisiana. The study surveyed both teacher and principal perceptions of principal instructional leadership behaviors through the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS). This survey was sent to participating school principals to complete in south Louisiana who then sent the survey out to their faculty. The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics, a dependent t-test, and logistic regression. The results indicated that female principals felt they actively participated in instructional leadership more often than their male counterparts did. Teachers also perceived their female principals actively participated in instructional leadership more often than the teachers of male principals did. Finally, the research indicated that Catholic and private schools with male principals were 76% less likely to have ACT scores that were higher than the national average of ACT scores of private schools. This study may offer insight to educational leaders on how instructional leadership may relate to college readiness as demonstrated by ACT scores. more...
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- 2022
28. 'All Kids Matter'? Catholic Institutional Advocacy for Federal COVID Relief Funding for Non-Public Schools
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Sellers, Kathleen M.
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This article explores the policy interests expressed by the largest private educational system in the United States, American Catholic schools, during the first four months of the COVID-19 crisis. Critical discourse analysis is applied to public texts produced by the Catholic Church between March 1 and July 1, 2020, in order to understand the discursive strategies through which this institution constructs meaning in the policy arena. This analysis illustrates how Catholic leaders use language to make racialized and low-income students "discursively invisible." The author documents a significant change in policy discourse, from neoconservative logics to neoliberal ones, which corresponds directly to political signaling from the Trump Administration. Drawing on critical race theory, the author suggests implications for policymakers and stakeholders. more...
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- 2021
29. Characteristics of Private Schools in the United States: Results from the 2019-20 Private School Universe Survey. First Look. NCES 2021-061
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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (ED/IES), Broughman, Stephen P., Kincel, Brian, Willinger, Jennifer, and Peterson, Jennifer
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In 1988, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) developed a private school data collection that improved on the sporadic collection of private school data dating back to 1890 and at the same time developed an alternative to commercially available private school sampling frames. Since 1989, the U.S. Bureau of the Census has conducted the biennial Private School Universe Survey (PSS) for NCES. PSS is designed to generate biennial data on the total number of private schools, students, and teachers, and to build a universe of private schools to serve as a sampling frame of private schools for NCES sample surveys. This First Look report provides selected findings from the 2019-20 PSS regarding private schools that were in operation during the 2019-20 school year. The data include information on school size, school level, religious orientation, association membership, geographic region, community type, and program emphasis. The PSS collects nonfiscal data biennially from the universe of private schools in the United States with grades kindergarten through twelve. more...
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- 2021
30. How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the School-Year Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement. Special Report Series, Spring 2021 Edition
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Renaissance Learning, Inc.
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This report examines how students are performing across the entire 2020-2021 school year in reading and mathematics during the pandemic. Based on insights from millions of student assessments, the report explores key questions effected by COVID-19 in education, including: (1) How much did students grow during the 2020-2021 school year compared with typical school-year growth?; (2) How much has the pandemic impacted student performance by the end of the 2020-2021 school year?; and (3) What are the pandemic's impacts in instructional terms? more...
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- 2021
31. VET for Secondary School Students: Insights and Outcomes. Research Report
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National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) (Australia), Misko, Josie, Lees, Melinda, and Chew, Emerick
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This research examines the merits of vocational education and training (VET) for secondary school students (VfSSS) in preparing students for work or further training from the perspectives of students, parents, industry stakeholders and employers. It also explores the models of provision used in government and non-government school sectors. Case studies of a sample of government and nongovernment schools that have been successful in state, territory and or national training award competitions, or nominated as having successful programs, provide useful learnings for the VET sector. The study also extends previously published analysis (Misko, Chew & Korbel 2020) to examine the differences in employment and training outcomes between students undertaking VfSSS compared with other student cohorts, including students who attained an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) and those who did not, using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). more...
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32. The Public-Private Debate: School Sector Differences in Academic Achievement from Year 3 to Year 9?
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Larsen, Sally A., Forbes, Alexander Q., Little, Callie W., Alaba, Simon H., and Coventry, William L.
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A higher proportion of students are privately educated in Australia, compared with many other nations. In this paper, we tested the assumption that private schools offer better quality education than public schools. We examined differences in student achievement on the National Assessment Programme: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) between public, independent, and catholic schools. Cross-sectional regressions using large samples of students (n = 1583-1810) at Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 showed few sector differences in NAPLAN scores in any domain. No differences were evident after controlling for socioeconomic status and prior NAPLAN achievement. Using longitudinal modelling, we also found no sector differences in the rate of growth for reading and numeracy between Year 3 and Year 9. Results indicate that already higher achieving students are more likely to attend private schools, but private school attendance does not alter academic trajectories, thus undermining conceptions of private schools adding value to student outcomes. more...
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33. School Equity, Marketisation and Access to the Australian Senior Secondary Curriculum
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Dean, Jenny, Roberts, Philip, and Perry, Laura B.
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This study examines how access to the academic curriculum creates patterns of inequality in Australian schools. Examining students' access to the academic curriculum gives an indication of how schooling is structured to support students in pursuing higher education opportunities. To date, little research attention has been given to the opportunities schools offer students to access the academic curriculum in order to enter university. Using administrative data on students and schools, we find that there are fewer average curriculum subjects, and less complexity in the subjects offered, in schools with low levels of socio-educational advantage. We argue that curriculum differentiation across schools is a systemic constraint that students in schools with higher levels of socio-educational disadvantage face in progressing to university because these schools are less able to provide students with access to core academic curriculum subjects in the final year of secondary school. Previous research has highlighted the social differences reflected in both educational access and outcomes due to the marketisation of schools and policies of school choice. Our findings indeed demonstrate that there are relationships between access to the academic curriculum, school socio-educational advantage and the social composition of schools, and these factors have important educational policy implications. more...
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34. Religious Education in French Private Schools: Categories, Conflations, and Inequities
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Ferrara, Carol
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France's secular political culture, Catholic heritage, and tumultuous relationship with Islam have had a significant impact on 21st-century interpretations, perceptions, and politicisations of religious education in French society. Since religious education is relegated to the French private school system, it is decentralised, complex, and vastly plural -- especially compared to France's hyper-centralised public education. Religious education's plurality and decentralisation have deepened with the recent expansion of Muslim and independent schooling. This article offers a comparative analysis of the variety of interpretations and manifestations of religious education across France's private education system. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out in more than fifteen French private Muslim, Catholic, and secular schools intermittently from 2012 to 2020, I illustrate how Catholic school actors and supposedly 'secular' school actors imparting Christian culture can operate with significantly more freedom than their Muslim school counterparts. Despite significant variation in approaches to religious education across the system, religious education in Muslim schools is quite parallel to other schooling communities. Nonetheless, Muslim school actors face disproportionate barriers to equitable treatment. This discrimination is facilitated by the complexities and ambiguities of RE and is representative of efforts to restrict the imparting of Muslim culture(s) to youth in French schools. more...
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35. Incentivising Student Enrolments in Secondary Mathematics Courses: Is a 10% Bonus Enough?
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Hine, Gregory
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This replicated research project [see Hine, G. S. C. (2019). Reasons why I didn't enrol in a higher-level mathematics course: Listening to the voice of Australian senior secondary students. "Research in Mathematics Education," 21(3), 295-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2019.15999982019] explored the reasons why senior secondary (i.e. Year 11 and Year 12) students elected not to enrol in a higher-level mathematics course. For this project, all senior secondary Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranking (ATAR) students within Western Australian schools (aged 17-18 years) were invited to participate in an anonymous, online survey comprised predominantly of qualitative items. The researcher analysed 1633 ATAR students' perspectives of enrolments in mathematics courses, according to a symbolic interactionist paradigm. Reasons included the extent to which students feel higher-level courses are too challenging, time-consuming, not required for university nor future life, and requiring more effort and stress to complete than lower-level mathematics courses. Especially outlined is the extent to which participants feel a 10% bonus is a sufficient incentive to increase higher-level course enrolments, an extension of the original project. Participants indicated a range of responses either supporting or opposing this incentive. While approximately 47% of participants agree that the incentive is sufficient, a small proportion of these supporters offer their agreement conditionally. Within the proportion asserting the incentive is insufficient, a majority of participants suggested that a higher percentage bonus should be offered to students enrolled in Mathematics Specialist. more...
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36. Catholic Education in Europe, Education Pluralism, and Public Funding
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Wodon, Quentin
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According to Church statistics, 6.9 million children were enrolled in Catholic primary and secondary schools in Europe. Enrolment has remained relatively stable over the last 40 years in comparison to other regions of the world, contributing to education pluralism. This may be in part because in many countries, Catholic and private schools benefit from state funding, which helps in reducing out-of-pocket costs for parents to send their children to the schools. At the same time, public funding for private schools, including Catholic schools, often remains below the level of funding for public schools. This paper discusses enrolment trends in Catholic schools over time, compares the level of public funding for private and public schools, and looks at the relationships (or lack thereof) between such funding and enrolment in Catholic and private schools. more...
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37. Private Schools and Student Achievement
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Ebrahim Azimi, Jane Friesen, and Simon Woodcock
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We investigate the effects of private schools on reading and numeracy scores using rich population data. Conditional on lagged test scores and narrowly defined neighborhood indicators, Catholic and non-Christian faith private schools on average raise test scores by 0.18 standard deviation or more relative to the average public school, while non-Catholic Christian private schools have negligible effects. The effects of secular private "prep" schools are similar to those of Catholic schools, but selection bias is a greater concern in this case. We use school-specific estimates of effectiveness to investigate private school choice decisions and the determinants of private school effectiveness. more...
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38. A Case Study Analysis of Google Smart Compose and Its Effects on the Student Writing Process from the Student and Teacher Perspectives
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Hannah Bryant
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This qualitative case study addresses the rise in popularity of the use of predictive text programs within the K-12 educational environment. A problem exists in the discrepancy between the widespread availability of Google Smart Compose within Google Docs, an AI predictive text tool, within the school environment, and a distinct lack of research regarding how such programs affect the student writing process. The purpose of this case study was to understand how the use of Google Smart Compose within Google Docs changed the student writing experience for 10th grade composition students at a suburban, private Catholic school. Data were collected over a period of three weeks with the participation of 24 students and their teacher, who took part in writing activities, evaluations, screen recording reflections, a focus group interview, and a teacher interview. This study found that students perceived the use of Google Smart Compose to have a positive influence on their word choice, creativity, and confidence, with the most significant influence on word choice. Students felt the complexity of the words they used improved when using the predictive text suggestions. Students reported an improvement in creativity both through the suggestion of individual words they would not have thought of, and in providing new directions to take their writing. Student confidence was also moderately influenced by the software. The teacher perspective indicated mixed feelings on all three factors. The teacher felt that while the software did not have direct benefits on improving student work, it might have benefits which they could not perceive. The teacher also expressed concerns regarding the long-term effects of predictive text programs, such as dependency upon the software and the degradation of creativity over time. While student perception was mostly positive, some students reported concerns similar to those of the teacher. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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39. The Impact of a Multi-Tiered System of Support Program at a Private College Prep High School
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Brittany B. Andersen
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This mixed-method study examined the impact of the implementation of a new multi-tiered intervention program at a private, Catholic, college preparatory high school in the Midwestern United States with a 95% Latinx population. The researchers examined the impacts of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) on various student academic achievement measures, teacher perceptions of program components associated with organizational change, and teacher perceptions of success. Fullan's (2016) educational change theory served as the theoretical framework for the current study. This mixed-method, qualitative-dominant, study included data from 14 of the 31 teachers employed full time at Midwest Private Prep and 220 of the 500 students enrolled full time during the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years. The quantitative results indicated statistically significantly positive results in annual student GPAs, a statistically significant decrease in student PSAT scores, and an increase in student failure rates after the implementation of the MTSS program. For the qualitative portion of the study, the research participants completed questionnaires adapted from Mortrud (2017), and teacher participants engaged in follow-up interviews. The researchers analyzed the qualitative responses using deductive themes from Fullan's educational change theory (i.e., need, clarity, complexity, and quality/practicality) and the additional theme of success from Mortrud's study. Recommendations for MPP regarding their MTSS program are provided. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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40. The Impact of a Multi-Tiered System of Support Program at a Private College Prep High School
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Edwin T. Ruth
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This mixed-method study examined the impact of the implementation of a new multi-tiered intervention program at a private, Catholic, college preparatory high school in the Midwestern United States with a 95% Latinx population. The researchers examined the impacts of a multitiered system of support (MTSS) on various student academic achievement measures, teacher perceptions of program components associated with organizational change, and teacher perceptions of success. Fullan's (2016) educational change theory served as the theoretical framework for the current study. This mixed-method, qualitative-dominant, study included data from 14 of the 31 teachers employed full time at Midwest Private Prep and 220 of the 500 students enrolled full time during the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years. The quantitative results indicated statistically significantly positive results in annual student GPAs, a statistically significant decrease in student PSAT scores, and an increase in student failure rates after the implementation of the MTSS program. For the qualitative portion of the study, the research participants completed questionnaires adapted from Mortrud (2017), and teacher participants engaged in follow-up interviews. The researchers analyzed the qualitative responses using deductive themes from Fullan's educational change theory (i.e., need, clarity, complexity, and quality/practicality) and the additional theme of success from Mortrud's study. Recommendations for MPP regarding their MTSS program are provided. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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41. The Impact of a Multi-Tiered System of Support Program at a Private College Prep High School
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Janelle A. Brooks
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This mixed-method study examined the impact of the implementation of a new multi-tiered intervention program at a private, Catholic, college preparatory high school in the Midwestern United States with a 95% Latinx population. The researchers examined the impacts of a multitiered system of support (MTSS) on various student academic achievement measures, teacher perceptions of program components associated with organizational change, and teacher perceptions of success. Fullan's (2016) educational change theory served as the theoretical framework for the current study. This mixed-method, qualitative-dominant, study included data from 14 of the 31 teachers employed full time at Midwest Private Prep and 220 of the 500 students enrolled full time during the 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years. The quantitative results indicated statistically significantly positive results in annual student GPAs, a statistically significant decrease in student PSAT scores, and an increase in student failure rates after the implementation of the MTSS program. For the qualitative portion of the study, the research participants completed questionnaires adapted from Mortrud (2017), and teacher participants engaged in follow-up interviews. The researchers analyzed the qualitative responses using deductive themes from Fullan's educational change theory (i.e., need, clarity, complexity, and quality/practicality) and the additional theme of success from Mortrud's study. Recommendations for MPP regarding their MTSS program are provided. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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42. 'I Feel Like Nothing Else Will Ever Be This Hard': The Dimensions of Teacher Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Lemon, Narelle and McDonough, Sharon
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While the COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in numerous lockdowns, understanding how teachers experience the shift to remote learning and the person focussed skills and capacities they employ during this time is vital. We draw from an online qualitative study to examine questionnaire data from 137 Australian teachers. Using the four dimensions of teacher resilience as a lens for analysis, we highlight the multidimensional approach teachers employ to navigate the challenge of teaching remotely. more...
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43. From Beginning Reading Instruction Method to School Type: Effects on Third Grade Reading Performance
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Prentice, Jean-Paul
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This causal-comparative study analyzed third grade reading scores from the National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) K-2011, by one of five school types, and four U.S. geographical regions. Forty-one of 50 states were represented. The problem studied is the unexplained elementary reading performance variances in the U.S. Since children are taught to read from birth to the end of third grade, late third grade is the target population. Data was accessed via a restricted-use license issued by the Institute for Education Sciences. The reading pivot (RP) happens after third grade when U.S. children are expected to read to learn. Negative outcomes, however, were not significantly prevalent in all U.S. schools or individual states. Five school types, Catholic, other religious, private, home, and public schools, were compared. Catholic, other religious, and private schools had statistically significantly better mean reading scores (p < 0.001). Homeschoolers had better mean reading scores than public schools. Six states had no other state with statistically significantly better reading scores. The Midwest and Northeast U.S. had statistically significantly better mean reading scores than the South and West regions (p < 0.001). The study suggests that the reading gap may be addressed in part by school selection. The RP precludes taking students where they are. Yet, teaching reading until on grade level is superior. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] more...
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44. The Role of High School Student Engagement in Postsecondary Enrollment
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Fraysier, Kathleen and Reschly, Amy L.
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether secondary student engagement was predictive of college attendance. Data were drawn from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 9th grade (n = 21,444) and 11th grade (n = 20,549) cohorts. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze whether demographic, academic, financial, and engagement variables predicted postsecondary enrollment. Demographic (higher SES, attending a Catholic or private school) and academic (English and Math GPA) variables were predictive of college enrollment across both cohorts, as were participants' thoughts on the affordability of college. For ninth grade students, the engagement scales of family support for learning and future goals and aspirations remained significant predictors of enrollment after accounting for other variables. Among 11th grade students, peer support for learning, future goals and aspirations, and behavioral engagement remained significant predictors of enrollment. Student engagement is thought to underlie high school and college completion efforts but little research connects these levels of schooling. This study suggests providing support for students' engagement in high school could positively affect college enrollment. Financial education about the costs and options for paying for college may also be beneficial. more...
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45. School Choice and Post Hoc Family Preference in Spain: Do They Match Up?
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Rogero-García, Jesús and Andrés-Candelas, Mario
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The process of school choice depends on a wide range of circumstances including those related to the accessibility to schools and parental preferences. This paper has three goals: (1) Identify whether the preferences for the different kinds of schools (public, publicly-funded private, or private) vary according to the family's traits; (2) estimate the degree of concurrence between the kind of school their children attend and the kind of school the parents prefer a posteriori; and (3) identify which social groups demonstrate lower levels of concurrence. We used a sub-sample of people with children registered in compulsory grades or post-compulsory grades up to university from representative national survey (2012). Results show that post hoc school preferences differ by educational level, economic status, religious orientation, and size of town. Likewise, we find divergences between the school parents prefer and the school their children attend, something that occurs more frequently among those with less economic resources. more...
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46. Missional Muddles: Why Private School Students Have a Positive Right to Learn Dissent
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Sellers, Kathleen
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Democracy needs dissent. More specifically, democracy needs citizens with "knowledge" of how to practice political dissent, a willingness to "think" about why and when such dissent is necessary, and "habituation" to the practice of good dissent. Where, then, are citizens to develop such habits? In Sarah Stitzlein's "Teaching for Dissent: Citizenship Education and Political Activism," she suggests that public schools are the place best-suited to train American citizens in habits of good dissent. And more, she argues not only are public schools best-suited to this task, but American citizens have a positive right to learn dissent from them. In this article, Kathleen Sellers seeks to expand Stitzlein's argument to include private schools, using the insights of Catholic political philosopher John Courtney Murray, SJ to help construct a framework for thinking about institutional autonomy as a privileged positionality, which enhances private schools' ability to practice (and therefore instruct students in) dissent. First Sellers explains Stitzlein's thesis regarding dissent as a positive right, locating it within the broader context of civics education in American democracy. She then explains the context of a private, mission-driven school, with particular emphasis on features that differentiate such institutions from public schools. Sellers then introduces Murray's insights to explain how mission-driven contexts possess distinct positionality for practicing dissent, a positionality which inheres responsibility for the practice of this positive right. This is followed by concluding remarks. more...
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47. Ulster-Scots: The Ulster-Scots Language in Education in Northern Ireland. Regional Dossiers Series
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Fryske Akademy (Netherlands), Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning and Hagan, Linda
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The aim of the Regional dossiers series is to provide a concise description of European minority languages in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers, pupils, and financial investments. Every Regional dossier begins with an introduction about the region concerned, followed by six sections that each deals with a specific level of the education system (e.g. primary education). Sections eight and nine cover the main lines of research into education of the concerned minority language, the prospects for the minority language in general and for education in particular. The tenth section gives a summary of statistics. Lists of regulations, publications and useful addresses concerning the minority language, are given at the end of the dossier. This dossier discusses Ulster Scots, a regional variation of Scots belonging to the Indo-European Germanic language family and is descended from Anglo-Saxon, specifically from a northern form of it, whose speakers had reached the south-east of what is now Scotland by the 7th century AD. [Unless otherwise stated academic data refer to the 2017 school year.] more...
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48. Educational System Building in a Changing Educational Sector: Environment, Organization, and the Technical Core
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Spillane, James P., Seelig, Jennifer L., Blaushild, Naomi L., Cohen, David K., and Peurach, Donald J.
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The institutional environment of U.S. school systems has changed considerably over a quarter century as standards and test-based accountability became central ideas in policy texts and discourses about improving education. We explore how U.S. school systems are managing in this changed environment by focusing on system leaders' sense-making about their environments as they attempt to build educational systems to improve instruction, the core technology of schooling. We identify the policy texts and discourses system leaders notice and their framings, interpretations, and uses of these cues as they build educational infrastructures to support more coherent instructional visions. We argue that school systems' educational infrastructure building efforts were intended at coupling their systems' formal organization with particular environmental cues in an effort to influence classroom instruction. In turn, we argue that these educational infrastructure building efforts can simultaneously be motivated by, and in pursuit of, institutional ritual and technical rationality. more...
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49. Working toward Equitable Access and Affordability: 'How Private Schools and Microschools Seek to Serve Middle- and Low-Income Students'
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Bellwether Education Partners, Squire, Juliet, King, Melissa Steel, and Trinidad, Justin
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For the past several decades, private schools have steadily served about one in ten students in the United States. However, the student population enrolled in private schools has changed. Thousands of Catholic schools, which often serve less affluent urban communities, have closed; meanwhile, tuition increases in independent schools have outpaced inflation and wage growth, making them less accessible to those with limited means. This suggests an emerging gap in affordable options and merits a fresh look at private schools that still seek to serve middle- and low-income families. In this report, the authors sought to understand the landscape of private schools that are working to remain affordable, the approaches they are taking, and how some are revisiting traditional operating models. This document provides an overview of private schools' enrollment, an analysis of the strategies private schools use to be accessible to middle- and low-income families, and an analysis of microschools, in particular. The authors identify and examine a variety of strategies private schools can use to improve affordability: (1) Subsidize cost with public funds; (2) Subsidize cost with private funds; (3) Find alternative revenue streams; and (4) Reduce expense of the model. The report ends by surfacing questions regarding the role of private schools in serving middle- and low-income students, the lessons they might hold for others, and their potential to scale and innovate. more...
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- 2019
50. The 'School Question' in an Imperial Context: Education and Religion during and Following the Occupations of Cuba and Puerto Rico
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Jarvinen, Lisa
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The United States occupations of Cuba and Puerto Rico following the War of 1898 instituted immediate reforms to the educational systems of the islands. The imposition of public school systems modeled on those of the United States and a concurrent wave of Protestant schools established by American missionaries are well-known features of the imperialist project. Yet American reforms were shaped by what was known in the nineteenth century as "the school question," or the controversy over the appropriate relationship between schooling, religion, and the government that had pitted the Protestant majority against Catholics and resulted in a consensus that religious-affiliated education should be permitted but relegated to the private sphere. The implementation of this consensus as the basis of occupation policy in Cuba and Puerto Rico, majority Catholic societies, contributed to the significant growth of a system of private Catholic schools and sparked debate about the relationship between religion, education, and nationalism. In an imperial context, "the school question" led to political polarization in the face of persistent US hegemony. more...
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