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The Exploratory Study Of Jefferson County Public Schools' Freshman Academies Of Louisville Model On Student Promotion, Attendance, And Sense Of Belonging., Andrew Lewis Thomas
The Exploratory Study Of Jefferson County Public Schools' Freshman Academies Of Louisville Model On Student Promotion, Attendance, And Sense Of Belonging., Andrew Lewis Thomas
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The middle school years are a pivotal time in a student’s life in which they deal with a range of issues, one of which is high school transition (Osler & Walden, 2012). McCallumore and Sparapani (2010) describe ninth grade as the critical year for completing high school. To facilitate the transition from middle to high school, freshman academies, a smaller learning community, seek to increase student promotion from ninth to tenth-grade, attendance, and sense of belonging through a myriad of interventions (Jefferson County Public Schools, 2018). There is a need to compare the student outcomes who attend traditional schools that …