BACKGROUND Despite of a growing body of research on vocational and educational difficulties for students with traumatic brain injury (TBI), only limited empirical studies specifically examined how school transition services facilitate later employment outcomes. OBJECTIVE This exploratory, prospective longitudinal study examined the prevalence of employment and characteristics of transition pl...

Background: Little is known about high school students’ perceptions of school-based pastoral support. This study aimed to explore this in the context of a high school–based emotional support project. Methods: Qualitative interviews explored perspectives on help seeking of students (N = 23) and staff (N = 27) in three UK high schools where a pastoral project was introduced. Data were analysed th...

ABSTRACT During adolescence, internal circadian rhythms and biological sleep drive change to result in later sleep and wake times. As a result of these changes, early middle school and high school start times curtail sleep, hamper a student's preparedness to learn, negatively impact physical and mental health, and impair driving safety. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence shows that delayin...

We study the relationship between school organizational contexts, teacher turnover, and student achievement in New York City (NYC) middle schools. Using factor analysis, we construct measures of four distinct dimensions of school contexts captured on the annual NYC School Survey. We identify credible estimates by isolating variation in organizational contexts within schools over time. We find t...

Hunter Gehlbach, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Maureen E. Brinkworth, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; and Anna Harris, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. This research was supported by generous funding through a grant from the Spencer Foundation and an Early Career Research Award by Division 15 of the American Psycholo...

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools. We find that students make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in public schools. The large negative estimates of the effects of attending a charter schools are neith...

Discipline is the attitude of a person who in accordance with rules or regulations that apply both arising from his self-awareness and because sanctions punishments have been applied so as to create order regularity. This study uses descriptive method quantitative approach which aims analyze information about description disciplined attitudes class X MIPA students at SMA Negeri 8 Muaro Jambi fo...

This paper examines the impact of the type of school (public or private) an individual attends on two dimensions Australian parents indicate are important in school choice: student attitudes and achievement. It exploits longitudinal data that captures individuals who change high schools to estimate how much of the apparent gaps in attitudes and achievement between students who attend different ...