scholarly journals The Role of College Counseling in Shaping College Opportunity: Variations across High Schools

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W Perna ◽  
Heather T Rowan-Kenyon ◽  
Scott Loring Thomas ◽  
Angela Bell ◽  
Robert Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
College Counseling ◽  
College Opportunity

The Role of Context in Understanding the Contributions of Financial Aid to College Opportunity

2011 ◽  
Vol 113 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W. Perna ◽  
Patricia Steele
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
College Access ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Aid Programs ◽  
College Opportunity

Background/Context Financial aid is a critical policy lever for increasing college access, choice, and attainment. Even with the substantial investment in financial aid programs, however, inadequate financial resources continue to limit postsecondary educational attainment. The persistence of financial barriers despite the substantial annual investment in student financial aid programs suggests the need to better understand the role of financial aid in promoting college opportunity. Purpose The study explores three questions: What are high school students’ perceptions of and expectations for financial aid? How do these perceptions and expectations inform college-related behaviors? How are perceptions and expectations for financial aid influenced by the state and school contexts in which students are embedded? Research Design The study uses data from descriptive case studies of 15 high schools, three in each of five states: California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Within each state, we purposively selected three high schools. The three high schools, selected from one school district or metropolitan region, may be characterized as relatively “low,” “middle,” or “high” resource based on the demographic and academic characteristics of enrolled students. Conclusions/Recommendations The results of this study suggest the importance of considering perceptions and expectations about aid, rather than actual amounts of available aid, when examining the relationship between financial aid and students’ college-related decisions. The results also suggest that knowledge and understanding of aid are related to characteristics of the schools that students attend and characteristics of available aid (an aspect of the state context). In addition, the results indicate that perceptions of and expectations about aid may encourage students to engage in other behaviors that promote college access and success, particularly academic preparation. The article concludes by offering implications for future research.

scholarly journals The Role of High School in Managing Conflicts that Generate Violence between Albanian Teenagers in Rural Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Eljana Brahja
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of high school in managing conflicts between teenagers in the rural areas between Tirana and Elbasan. Conflicts among teenagers are always present. They can happen in families, at school, and in the community, but our focus will be the conflicts generated in school premises. It is concerning that teenagers are seeing school as a battlefield where they can fight away from their parents' eyes. The research will shed light on how the aid offered by the high school social services, impact teenagers’ conflict management. This study uses Psychoanalytic, Humanist and Behavioral Directions to explain the source of violent behavior among students in schools located in rural areas. The study is based on the Positive Paradigm. The research method used for collecting data is the quantitative one. The population of this study is the teenagers of high schools located in rural areas between Tirana and Elbasan. The sample of the study is the students of "Krrabë" and "Ibrahim Hasmema" high schools and the instrument used is the sociological questionnaire. Data analysis will show whether teenage conflicts exist and how schools located in rural area manage these conflict cases. The document argues that conflicts between teenagers are present at school premises and the latest rarely use the social services provided at their school. The teachers' staff should be trained on identifying young people who tend to conflict and to have violent behavior. Teachers should be also trained on the ways to treat those teenagers who are victims of violence.

scholarly journals Reactualization of the Function and Role of Principals in Senior High Schools (SMA) in Luwu Regency, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basmin Mattayang ◽  
Husain Syam ◽  
Haedar Akib ◽  
Rifdan Rifdan ◽  
Patahuddin Patahuddin
Keyword(s):  
High Schools

Parents’ Migration and Adolescents’ Transition to High School in Rural China: The Role of Parental Divorce

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 3324-3359
Author(s):  
Shu Hu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Transition To High School ◽  
Parental Migration

Using both quantitative and qualitative data collected in a migrant-sending county from 2012 to 2013, this article examines the mechanisms through which parental migration could shape adolescents’ transition to high school in rural China. Though parental migration improves children’s educational outcomes via social remittance of education value, it also leads to a decline in children’s educational achievements by increasing the odds of parental divorce. The likelihood of divorce rises with the migration of mother or both parents, and this significantly increases the risks of discontinuing schooling and transitioning to vocational high schools, relative to attending academic high schools. In contrast to the conventional explanations of economic resources and psychological health, this article emphasizes the significant role of marital instability in the link between parental migration and children’s educational outcomes.

The Role of Single-Sex Education in the Academic Engagement of College-Bound Women: A Multilevel Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Linda J. Sax ◽  
Tiffani A. Riggers ◽  
M. Kevin Eagan
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
School Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Single Sex Education

Background/Context As opportunities for public and private single-sex education have expanded, the debate surrounding this issue has become more heated. Recent reviews of research on single-sex education have concluded that the evidence is mixed, due in large part to the difficulty of attributing differences between single-sex and coeducational students specifically to the single-sex nature of their experience, as opposed to other differences between single-sex and coeducational schools and their attendees. This study comes at a time of renewed national interest in the value and appropriateness of single-sex education, especially as changes to Title IX have expanded the opportunities to establish single-sex classes and activities, and contributes new data with a focus exclusively on the academic engagement of female students from single-sex and coeducational high schools. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This study addresses whether levels of academic engagement differ between single-sex and coeducational settings. Research Design The study uses self-reported survey data and multilevel modeling to address secondary school-level effects in a national sample of women entering college. Findings/Results The analyses suggest that attendance at a single-sex high school remains a significant predictor of academic engagement even after controlling for the confounding role of student background characteristics, school-level features, and peer contexts within each school. Specifically, women attending all-girls high schools report higher levels of academic engagement across numerous fronts: studying individually or in groups, interacting with teachers, tutoring other students, and getting involved in student organizations. However, these results may also be attributed to other features that differentiate single-sex from coeducational schools, such as smaller enrollments and racial/ethnic diversity of the schools in this study. Conclusions/Recommendations Although the results of this study support the claims that all-female environments provide a unique opportunity for young women to thrive, these results should be interpreted with some caution. Because of the limitations of the study, it is difficult to make definitive inferences about the relationship between single-sex education and academic engagement, and we cannot assert with confidence that school gender alone is responsible for higher academic engagement. The study points the way for future research that further distinguishes the role of individual and school-level attributes and ideally examines this issue using longitudinal data. Finally, given the current expansion of single-sex education in the public schools, future research ought to employ these methodological advances in studies on single-sex public education and should consider the consequences of single-sex settings for both female and male students.

Parents' Perceptions about the Role of Hearing in the Development of Language and Speech in Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (09) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukrije Baruti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Development Of Language

The purpose of this research was to understand the perceptions of parents on the difficulties of children in language development and speech when they also have hearing impairments. The research focused on three cities in Kosovo, Gjilan, Prishtina and Prizren. Respondents of this research are 60 parents of children with hearing impairments, of the mentioned high schools. The questionnaire measured the opinions of parents regarding the topic we have for research, primary schools in the municipalities of Gjilan, Pristina and Prizren that are participants in this research. This questionnaire included 29 questions. In conclusion, it is understood that the lower the level of hearing in children, the lower is the development of language and speech in children, p <0.01, r = -531 **.

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