article thumbnail

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. Neighborhood segregation and district boundaries have contributed to this (Palardy, 2013). High school transcripts were collected for additional data (Palardy, 2013). link] Corriveau, K.

Research 324
article thumbnail

Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. These research-based factors are minimal financial commitments that can help boost student outcomes. Salford, UK: University of Salford, Manchester.

Research 359
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts. So what did you do on Digital Learning Day 2013?' Groff’s Digital Journalism class researched and wrote stories, as per any other normal day in class.

Sociology 260
article thumbnail

Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

We also encourage those from cognate disciplines such as sociology, and from researchers using ethnographic methods. How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching?

article thumbnail

How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

The Hechinger Report

That is the major finding of Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013, a new report by the California-based Learning Policy Institute (LPI). Related: How can states better support and keep new teachers?

Sociology 104
article thumbnail

OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi’s NAEP performance gains accompanied new policies that began at roughly the same time: The Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA) , passed by the Mississippi legislature in 2013, is primarily known as a policy to hold back third graders who have not demonstrated basic reading proficiency on a state assessment. Pallas is the Arthur I.

article thumbnail

What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

Sociology 105