Examining Hispanic Student Mathematics Performance on High-Stakes Tests: An Examination of One Urban School District in Colorado

Hispanic students, born both inside and outside the United States, comprise over 80% of the US English language learner population. The difference in mathematics achievement among Hispanic students and other populations has been well documented. As a result, it is important to understand the effects of using standards-based mathematics curriculum with high school Hispanic students. Mathematics achievement scores from the Colorado Student Assessment Program and Measurement of Academic Progress for Hispanic 9th and 10th grade students (n = 1,318) who used the Core-Plus Mathematics Program were compared to the progress of other student demographics (n = 2,003) who used the same curriculum. In following the recommendations of the National Research Council (On evaluation curricular effectiveness: judging the effectiveness of K-12 mathematics evaluations. National Academies Press, Washington, DC 2005), a meta-analysis (Glass in Educ Res 5:3–8, 1976) of Hispanic students using National Science Foundation Funded (NSFF) curricula was conducted to contextualize this study’s findings within the findings of previous studies. The results of this study indicated that Hispanic students have shown modest gains; however, their relative position compared to other ethnic groups is unremarkable. The meta-analysis Cohen’s d results ranged from +.673 (SE = .131) to −.670 (SE = .045) with slightly positive effects for Hispanic students using an NSFF curriculum when compared to those not using an NSFF curriculum (.043, SE = .012).     

信息化校园:机遇与挑战

本文对信息化校园的特点进行了剖析,对信息化校园的管理、教育等问题进行了简单的探讨,并给出了建设信息化校园的简要思路。     

District Progressivism: Rethinking Reform in Urban School Systems, 1900-1928

This paper reexamines the analytic categories that American educational historians have used to describe progressive era reformers and their innovations. Using archival sources and other school district records, this essay analyzes the nature of school reform in three United States cities: Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, and Denver, Colorado during the early decades of the twentieth century. The author argues that educational leaders in city school systems blended and combined practices that historians have tended to see as contradictory. These district progressives viewed many reforms of the era as compatible and intertwined for a variety of reasons: practitioners at the local level were more likely to see the movement for progressive education in a battle with older, nineteenth-century conceptions of education; district leaders, by necessity, developed distinct strategies for district-wide change, using their administrative leverage to foster instructional change; and some leaders, quite simply, found certain administrative reforms much easier to implement. 1     

中学地理教师现状调查与分析——以淮北市为例

2006年秋季，随着高一年级全面实施高中新课程，安徽省高、初中已全部进入新课程。有人说新课程实施的成功在教师。新课程对教师提出了新的要求。目前，淮北市地理教师的现状如何，能否承担新课程改革的重担，文章对淮北市地理教师的情况进行了调查。结果发现地理教师的学历合格率较低，师资缺乏，年龄结构较合理，业务能力有待进一步提高。究其原因。与高校地理教育专业设置、中学教育规模扩大、地理学科在中考高考中的地位等有关。在现实情况下，应通过加强继续教育、加强教师交流等措施加以解决。     

The Counseling Opportunity Structure: Examining Correlates of Four-Year College-Going Rates

This study examines the relationships between the normative and resource dimensions of a high school counseling department and four-year college-going rates. Utilizing data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS: 09), we employ multiple regression and latent class analysis to identify salient factors related to the college-going culture of a high school and to classify schools according to their underlying counseling opportunity structure, respectively. Results demonstrate that both norms (i.e., average caseload and hours spent on college counseling) and resources (i.e., college fairs, college course offerings, and financial aid) are important predictors of a school’s four-year college-going rates. These results, in turn, produced a three-level typology of schools based on a divergent, emergent, and convergent classification system. The study concludes with a discussion of findings and implications for researchers and policymakers interested in improving and better understanding the counseling opportunity structure.     

城市旅游化视域下城市游憩商业区发展研究——以福州为例

城市游憩商业区是打造现代城市形象、建设宜居宜商宜游城市的重要载体,也是推进城市旅游化进程的一项重要内容.在阐述城市游憩商业区内涵与特点的基础上,以福州为例,分析了福州城市游憩商业区的发展现状与特征,特别是在游憩商业区发展要素上进行了比较研究;指出了福州城市游憩商业区发展存在的主要问题,针对性地从优化业态结构及其空间布局、增强文化体验、加强公共服务系统软硬件开发建设、完善游憩产品体系等方面提出了福州城市游憩商业区的发展策略.     

社区居民对全民预防保健服务的利用现状探究——以泸州市龙马潭区为例

通过调查泸州市龙马潭区全民预防保健工作开展现状,了解辖区居民对全民预防保健服务的利用情况,为基层医疗卫生机构更好地开展居民健康管理提供理论依据。结果显示,泸州龙马潭区居民对全民预防保健服务知晓率和参与率有待进一步提高,需要政府、医疗机构、居民三方联动推动全民预防保健工作的顺利开展。     

The Effects of the Great Recession on Educational Attainment: Evidence from a Large Urban High School District

Economic crises are a recurrent phenomenon in American society, yet there is little knowledge of the impacts on educational opportunity. Using data from a large high school district as a case study, this research explores the impact of the Great Recession (2007–2009) on high school senior graduation rates in an area at the epicenter of the Recession. A logistic regression model with cluster robust standard errors is developed to estimate the recession’s impact on student subgroups’ graduation rates between the periods 2004–2013 for maximum variation. Results show that students who are historically “at-risk” experienced significant declines in graduation rates at the beginning of the recession in 2008. The decline is followed by a steep increase in graduation rates beginning in 2009, largely driven by increases for the most disadvantaged groups. These results suggest that the recession created a counter-cyclical demand for education.     

School Choice and Stratification in a Regional Context: Examining the Role of Inter-District Choice

Despite the growing popularity of interdistrict choice plans over the past decade, the policy assumptions underlying their adoption have been subjected to very little empirical research. This study situates school choice within one metropolitan region, Denver, and examines the ways in which choice patterns relate to existing patterns of stratification between school districts. This regional focus offers insight into the patterns of interdistrict choice and the influence these patterns have on equity within a metropolitan region. Findings from this study indicate that relatively higher income students were more likely to take advantage of interdistrict choice, and that choice was more often used by students to exit from a less advantaged context (as measured by socioeconomic status) to a relatively more advantaged one. The article concludes with recommendations for policymakers in designing more equity-minded choice policies.     

Data‐Driven Improvement in Prekindergarten Classrooms: Report From a Partnership in an Urban District

In 2014–2015 and 2015–2016, a metropolitan school system in the southern United States embarked on a unique mission to improve the quality of its public prekindergarten programs through a partnership with a group of developmental researchers in an iterative, data‐based venture. Data on 407 children in Year 1 and 433 in Year 2 (who were enrolled in 26 classrooms and extensively observed) are presented from the first 2 years of the ongoing partnership. All children were 4 years of age. Variability in classroom practices, measured empirically, and variability in child outcomes provided the means to examine the relations between children's gains in academic and social‐emotional areas and major areas of classroom practices. Lessons learned, the eight identified significant practices, implications, and next steps in the partnership are addressed.     

廊坊市定位于科技教育城的机遇与挑战

教育是产业,是市场,这是目前社会的一个共识：廊坊市定位于科技教育之城,就意味着要全面进入教育特别是高等教育市场。从经济学角度看,高等教育是一个垄断竞争市场,有其特殊的运行规律。廊坊市全面进入这一市场,发展教育经济,目前存在着难得的机遇,同时也面临着很大的挑战。     

City of London School and Communities that Care: Researching Pupil Experience to Inform Policy and Practice in the Independent Sector

This article is an account of the decision by an independent school to participate in its local Healthy Schools Scheme. One of the factors that influenced this decision was the value the school gained from a pupil survey. The same survey was used to track the impact of the school's Personal, Social and Health Education curriculum and pastoral work on pupils' experience of the school, and academic achievement. In particular, the authors explore the role of survey analysis and consultancy advice in interpreting survey results and developing school practice. The survey contributed to pupil participation in school development. The use of an external consultant as critical friend was perceived as an aid to school reflection and self-review.     

City of London School and Communities that Care: Researching Pupil Experience to Inform Policy and Practice in the Independent Sector

This article is an account of the decision by an independent school to participate in its local Healthy Schools Scheme. One of the factors that influenced this decision was the value the school gained from a pupil survey. The same survey was used to track the impact of the school's Personal, Social and Health Education curriculum and pastoral work on pupils' experience of the school, and academic achievement. In particular, the authors explore the role of survey analysis and consultancy advice in interpreting survey results and developing school practice. The survey contributed to pupil participation in school development. The use of an external consultant as critical friend was perceived as an aid to school reflection and self-review.     

Connecting School and Home: Examining Parental and School Involvement in Readiness for College Through Multilevel SEM

Research in Higher Education - Parental involvement is widely acknowledged as a critical factor influencing the college choice process among families. What is not clear, though, is whether this...     

Implementation of the PATHS Curriculum in an Urban Elementary School

We examined the effectiveness of the PATHS curriculum in a magnet elementary school serving a distressed urban area. Aspects of social-emotional competence were examined for second graders who had, and had not, received the PATHS intervention. The intervention groups differed, with the control group having lower social-emotional competence than the intervention group. The measures that contributed most to this effect were objective ratings of observed social competence, and self-reports of child depression and social rejection. School personnel reported modest enthusiasm and approval of the PATHS curriculum. The importance of school acceptance, and contexts that may enhance such acceptance, are discussed.