The Effect of School Funding on Opportunity Gaps for Students With Disabilities: Policy and Context in a Diverse Urban District

Cruz, Rebecca A.; Lee, Joon-Ho; Aylward, Alexandra; Voulgarides, Catherine Kramarczuk

doi:10.1177/1044207320970545

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“…Access to high-quality and ongoing professional learning increases teachers' content knowledge, self-efficacy, and competence (Darling-Hammond et al, 2009;Croft, 2015;Akiba and Liang, 2016). Targeted spending on special education services and interventions contributes to students' academic achievement (Cruz et al, 2022). Academic schedules, curriculum, transportation, extra-curricular activities, and student support services are examples of school-level environmental elements decided in the exosystem.…”

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Serving Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations in Social and Educational Contexts

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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Serving Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations in Social and Educational Contexts

2024

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“…Another approach is to combine two or more extant data sets, such as school-, district-, and state-level data (Cruz et al, 2022;Hall-Mills, 2019). Cruz et al (2022) combined variables across multiple data sources to examine the impact of state-level policy changes on student outcomes. These researchers extracted data from multiple secondary sources in order to examine school-level (finance data, teacher demographics) and student-level data (state test scores), whereas Hall-Mills (2019) combined two large extant data sets to examine changes in language impairment prevalence after a statewide mandate of response to intervention was put in place.…”

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“…On the surface, this may seem a study with primary data collection, yet gathering the extant school data is a type of secondary data analyses. Another approach is to combine two or more extant data sets, such as school-, district-, and state-level data (Cruz et al, 2022;Hall-Mills, 2019). Cruz et al (2022) combined variables across multiple data sources to examine the impact of state-level policy changes on student outcomes.…”

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Quality Indicators of Secondary Data Analyses in Special Education Research: A Preregistration Guide

Lombardi¹,

Rifenbark²,

Taconet³

2022

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Secondary data analyses occur when new analyses are proposed for existing data. Although they are prevalent in special education research, there is little guidance on how to prepare secondary data analyses studies. Preregistration of secondary data analyses studies provides a nice opportunity and structure for fellow researchers to share innovative questions and analytic approaches to existing data sets as well as increase transparency. In this manuscript, we (a) describe quality indicators of secondary data analyses consistent with open science practices and (b) provide applied examples of these indicators from a sampling of published studies based on two iterations of data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS2 and NLTS2012) with the overall goals to provide guidance to authors and peer reviewers and promote collaboration among fellow researchers engaged in secondary analyses for a range of purposes.

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Teaching in the time of COVID-19: A biological systems theory approach

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In 2020, schools around the United States and globally closed to in-person instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, embedded in ongoing research supported by a United States Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Award, investigated changes in roles, relationships, and educational activities resulting from the pandemic as perceived by educators in one rural and low SES Appalachian primary school. Using Bronfenbrenner’s (1977; 1979; 2001) Bioecological Theory of Human Development, this study examined instructional modifications (proximal processes) resulting from the pandemic (chronosystem) in the school and home (microsystem context) and the development of teachers, parents, and students (persons) in response to those changes. Survey data were collected pre- and post-pandemic onset. Results of this mixed-methods study indicated teachers perceived the pandemic as influencing what they taught, how they taught, and the roles of and relationships between teachers, parents, and students. Teachers adapted to the changing educational environment developing proficiency in online tools and skills to enhance communication. Parents assumed a more prominent role in their K-2 student’s schooling to ensure students logged in and were active online, paid attention while in class, and completed their assignments at home. These remote learning environments, which naturally distanced teachers from their students, coupled with uncertain parental involvement, challenged teachers in their formative assessments of student knowledge. While some students thrived with increased support from attentive parents—many students, particularly those already at-risk or in homes where internet or parental support were lacking—were adversely affected, thus widening the achievement gap.

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The Effect of School Funding on Opportunity Gaps for Students With Disabilities: Policy and Context in a Diverse Urban District

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Serving Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations in Social and Educational Contexts

Serving Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations in Social and Educational Contexts

Quality Indicators of Secondary Data Analyses in Special Education Research: A Preregistration Guide

Teaching in the time of COVID-19: A biological systems theory approach

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