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Title: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT ONE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Author: Morgan, Jonimay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: Beginning with the Lau decision (Sugarman & Widess, 1974), it has been the responsibility of schools to provide educational support to English Language Learners (ELL). However, as elucidated by Hakuta (2017), educators continually struggle to supp...

Title: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SPOKEN WORD AS A TOOL OF RESISTANCE TO BUFFER RACIALIZED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK MALES IN ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Author: Hollis, Tiffany
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACTTIFFANY NICOLE HOLLIS. Exploring the role of spoken word as a tool of resistance to buffer racialized experiences of black males in academic and social contexts. (Under the direction of DR. CHANCE W. LEWIS)My research and scholarship is pa...

Title: Education for Sustainable Development in Global Ready Schools: A Comparative Case Study
Author: Holshouser, Kaitlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental education, Education, Elementary
Description: This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina’s Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliate...

Title: Educational Needs Assessment for African Americans with Homeschooled Children
Author: Rhyne Byrd, Kelly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Trends in homeschooling show that enrollment for K-12 students is on the rise, particularly with African American families. For families choosing to homeschool their children, there is greater flexibility and range of choice in curriculum programs...

Title: Effects of the Shared Principles of Middle School Philosophy and Culturally Responsive Education on the Academic Achievement of African American Middle School Students
Author: Ellis, Tarra
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Educational sociology
Description: This study was an investigation of the overlapping principles of relevance, rigor, and relationships inherent in both middle school philosophy and culturally responsive education to determine their effects on the academic achievement of African Am...

Title: Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Author: Rand, Meaghan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Rhetoric
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitative case studies of first year writing instructors are used to discuss the impac...

Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Montessori Reading and Math Instruction for Third Grade African American Students in Urban Elementary Schools
Author: Brown, Katherine
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Improving academic achievement for students of color has long been the subject of debate among advocates of education reform (Anyon, 2013; Breitborde & Swiniarski, 2006; Payne, 2008). Some scholars have advocated for the Montessori method as an al...

Title: Evidence-Based and Makerspaced: Preservice Teachers’ Dispositions, Perceptions, and Preparedness to Teach Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Author: Holland, Abby
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purpose of this qualitative research project was to explore the perceptions, practices, and roles that a team of six (6) preservice teachers developed regarding make-based learning, which is informed by constructionism and teaching students wi...

Title: ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
Author: Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...

Title: Experiencing the Double-Edged Sword of Desegregation: Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Graduates from 1995-1998
Author: Hawn Nelson, Amy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational sociology, Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the long-term effects of desegregated schooling within a firmly established K-12th grade desegregated school system. Long-term outcomes include: educational and occupational attainment, comfort wit...

Title: Experiencing the crux of agency and structure in urban education: On becoming a teacher educator
Author: Salyers, Bethany
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of
Description: This research seeks to understand the experience of agency among those being prepared to be teacher educators and education scholars. It investigates how doctoral students negotiate their agency when they discover a difference between the promise ...

Title: Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
Author: Dervin, Alicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...

Title: FACTORS INFLUENCING BLACK FEMALE TEACHERS' JOB SATISFACTION AND INTENTION TO REMAIN IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM: A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS
Author: Farinde, Abiola
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, current retention trends indicate a Black teacher shortage. Research shows that Black teachers' retention rates are often lower than White teachers'. In examining retention, job satisfaction has been ...

Title: Facilitating Individual Student Planning with English Learners: An Exploration of Placement Complexities and Counselor Educational Preparation
Author: Lachance, Joan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning
Description: ABSTRACTJOAN ROLSTON LACHANCE. A multiple case study on facilitating individual student planning with English learners in North Carolina high schools: An exploration of placement complexities and counselor educational preparation. (Under the direc...

Title: Factors Affecting Grades: An Examination of North Carolina School Performance Grades
Author: Dangerfield-Persky, Felicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This quantitative study explores the potential school-level and school district-level factors associated with North Carolina school performance grades in K-5 elementary schools. The desire was to examine if any of the school- or school district-le...

Title: Factors Influencing Teen Suicide-Related Behaviors Among Racially Diverse High School Students in a Southeastern Urban School District
Author: Richardson, Sonyia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social service
Description: This quantitative study explores factors related to suicide-related behaviors among high school students in a southeastern urban racially diverse school district. It sought to examine whether race was a moderator of identified predictors and the o...

Title: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...

Title: Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
Author: Hopper, Eugenia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: African American teachers make up only about 7% of teachers in the United States, while African American students make up 16% of the public school population. Unfortunately, African American teachers leave teaching at almost a 60% higher rate when...

Title: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...

Title: From Egypt to Canaan: A Phenomenological Study of the Racial Messaging Black Males Received While Attending Conservative Christian Schools
Author: Willis, Evan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Since the full desegregation of all Christian schools in 1983 there has been limited inquiry into the role of race in these academic institutions. Furthermore, Christian education literature has had limited exploration into the role of race. When ...