The Impact of School Building Conditions on Student Absenteeism and Performance in Upstate New York

This article examines the impact of early provision of counsel on judges’ pretrial release and bail decisions in two rural counties in upstate New York, in cases involving felony charges. This study builds upon previously reported research on misdemeanor cases. We note that although the stakes are higher in felony cases, few studies have investigated the dynamics of first appearance decisions at either level. We investigate the hypotheses that when defendants are represented by attorneys at their first appearances in court, (a) judges are more inclined to release on recognizance or under supervision, (b) judges impose less restrictive bail amounts, and (c) as a consequence, defendants spend less time detained prior to disposition. We find mixed support for these hypotheses, although some evidence that counsel at first appearance (CAFA) produces the expected outcomes. We conclude that the implementation of programs intended to ensure CAFA may be tempered by courthouse cultures, and that future research on court reform should include the study of rural jurisdictions.

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Making summer matter: The impact of youth employment on academic performance

Quantitative Economics ◽

10.3982/qe883 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 477-504

Author(s):

Amy Ellen Schwartz ◽

Jacob Leos-Urbel ◽

Joel McMurry ◽

Matthew Wiswall

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Academic Outcomes ◽

Department Of Education ◽

Youth Employment ◽

High Demand ◽

Test Taking ◽

Level Data ◽

And Performance ◽

Lottery System ◽

The Impact

This paper examines New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). SYEP provides jobs to youth ages 14–24, and due to high demand for summer jobs, allocates slots through a random lottery system. We match student‐level data from the SYEP program with educational records from the NYC Department of Education and use the random lottery to estimate the effects of SYEP participation on a number of academic outcomes, including test taking and performance. We find that SYEP participation has positive impacts on student academic outcomes, and these effects are particularly large for students who participate in SYEP multiple times.

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Public school building conditions in one New York State urban school : an exploratory case study of teachers' experiences with teaching and learning

10.17760/d20324069 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

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Ariana Ames

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Public School ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

New York State ◽

Building Conditions ◽

York State ◽

Exploratory Case Study ◽

Teachers Experiences ◽

School Building Conditions

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Play Me a Tarantella, a Polka, or Jazz

10.5406/illinois/9780252037207.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Christine F. Zinni

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

San Francisco ◽

The United States ◽

Politics Of Identity ◽

Upstate New York ◽

Italian Americans ◽

Italian American ◽

Publishing Houses ◽

And Performance ◽

History Narratives

This chapter looks at the emergence of accordion schools and accordion bands in the United States established by Italian Americans. Approaching the subject from the perspective of grassroots oral history and performance theory, it maps the ways in which the efforts of Roxy and Nellie Caccamise (pioneers of the piano accordion in upstate New York) were connected to a longer history and larger matrix of Italian American musicians, composers, publishing houses, and manufacturers in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. The chapter also suggests how the interactions and interplay of peoples within, and through, these community-based networks functioned to create a parallel economy and a cultural space that was not only imbricated in the politics of identity but helped span gaps between folk and fame. Taking an actor/action-centered approach to life-history narratives, it suggests that the accordion schools created by Italian Americans operated through the interstices of two cultures and proved to be a strategic intervention in American cultural life with polysemous meanings.

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How related are technical and subjective measures of building conditions?

Facilities ◽

10.1108/f-07-2013-0055 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 (5/6) ◽

pp. 295-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Arnt O. Hopland

Keyword(s):

Primary Schools ◽

Data Sources ◽

Physical Work ◽

School Buildings ◽

School Building ◽

Subjective Measures ◽

Data Set ◽

Content Type ◽

Building Conditions ◽

School Building Conditions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between technical school building conditions and student satisfaction with the school buildings. Learning more about the relationship between the measures will be useful for researchers who are studying the effect from physical work conditions on student achievement. Design/methodology/approach – The paper aims to study the correlation between technical condition and user satisfaction with school buildings using two different data sources. The first source is administrative data, where the local governments have reported the condition of their school buildings to a national investigation of school building conditions. The second source is survey data where students in Norwegian primary schools report their satisfaction with their learning environment, including the school buildings. Combining the two data sources provides a unique data set for a large number of Norwegian primary schools. Findings – The measures of technical and subjective condition are significantly correlated, but the correlation is far from 100 percent. Hence, it will be of great interest for researchers to look more into potential effects from subjective measures of building condition. Originality/value – The paper provides an investigation of the link between two different measures of building conditions that can both be relevant to use in studies of how school buildings affect student performance.

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The relationship between school building and school life satisfactionOkul binaları ve okul yaşam doyumu arasındaki ilişki

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v15i4.5578 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 2113

Author(s):

Semiha Şahin

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Academic Success ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

School Buildings ◽

School Building ◽

Building Conditions ◽

Meaningful Relationship ◽

School Building Conditions ◽

Multifactor Regression ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this research is to examine whether low and high student success and green-mixed-old types of buildings have a meaningful relationship with perceptions of teachers on quality of school buildings, and the relationship between school building conditions and life satisfaction of teachers, and the degree of effects of buildings to this satisfaction. Quantitative methods were used in the research. 170 participants of research were elementary and middle school teachers from Madison/Wisconsin, US. Stratified random sampling was used in the research. In data collection, ‘Quality School Building Scale’ and ‘Teachers Life Satisfaction Scale’ were used. Data was analyzed with Mann Whitney U test, F & r statistics, and multifactor regression analysis. According to results, school building conditions and life satisfaction of teachers has a positive relation. A significant correlation was found between perception of teachers of school buildings, and low or high academic success of students in the dimension of ‘equipment and building of school’ and ‘physical condition and equipment’ - in favor of green schools. Life satisfaction has an intermediate level meaningful relationship with school campus and lightnings, and with a close resulted, there is a low level meaningful relationship with visibility range and acoustics. School building sizes explains 20% of unidimensional life satisfaction. Thus, bettering the conditions of building should be an important task for authorities and employees of schools.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu araştırmada öğretmenlerin okul bina kalitesine algıları arasında öğrenci başarısı ve okul bina tipine göre anlamlı bir farkın olup olmadığı; okul bina koşullarıyla öğretmenlerin okul yaşam doyumları arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcıları ABD, Wisconsin/Madison’da ilk ve orta dereceli okullarda görev yapan öğretmenlerdir. Araştırmada tabakalı seçkisiz örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmış, 170 öğretmen örneklemde yer almıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak “kaliteli okul binası ölçeği” ve Yaşam Doyumu Öğretmen Ölçeği adlı ölçekler kullanılmıştır. Veriler Mann Whitney U, F ve r istatistiği ile çok faktörlü regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre öretmenlerin okul bina koşulları ve yaşam doyumuna algıları olumludur. Akadamik başarıya göre öğretmen algıları toplam ölçek ve fiziksel koşullar boyutunda farklılaşırken, okul tipine göre yeşil okullar lehine tüm tüm boyutlarada farklılaşmaktadır. okulların lehinedir. Okul binaları ve öğretmenlerin okul yaşam doyumları arasında pozitif yönlü bir ilişki vardır. Okul yaşam doyumu ile fiziksel koşullar ve ışıklandırma boyutları arasında orta, akustik ve görüş mesafdesi boyutları arasında ise az bir farkla düşük düzeyde püzitif bir ilişki vardır. Okul bina ve donanımı okul yaşam doyumunu %20 düzeyinde açıklamaktadır. Bu durumda okul binalarının durumun iyileşmesi yetkililerin ve okul çalışanlarının önemeli bir konusu olmalıdır.

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