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Title: Exploring Secondary Classroom Engagement in Mathematics
Author: Cline, Jessica
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
Description: The term engagement appears in teacher effectiveness models as well as state and federal legislation, including the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act of 1965 (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ES...

Title: Exploring Self-Compassion, Empathy, and Intrinsic Spirituality as Predictors of Cultural Humility
Author: Rikard, Tiffany
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Counseling psychology, Education
Description: Each year in the United States (U.S), one in five adults experience mental illness and one in six youth ages 6-17 experience a mental disorder (NAMI, 2020). While mental illness can affect individuals at similar rates, minority populations suffer ...

Title: Exploring factors impacting social justice advocacy attitudes among play therapists
Author: Chase, Lauren
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Overall, the United States’ population is becoming more diverse, and children in minority groups have many disadvantages due to circumstances beyond their control. They experience more poverty (US Census Bureau, 2017), unequal educational opportun...

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: FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE CAREER STABILITY OF ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS IN A LARGE URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE SOUTHEAST
Author: Edwards, Danielle
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, School management and organization
Description: This study examined the career stability (career choices assistant principals intend to make over the next five to ten years) in a large, urban school district in the southeastern region of the United States in order to identify factors significan...

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: First Year Residential Tradtional-aged College Students' First Semester Experience and it's impact on Social Identity
Author: Douglas, Niesha
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTNIESHA CHARISSE DOUGLAS. First year residential traditional aged college students' first semester experience and its impact on their social identity. (Under the direction of DR. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The needs of our society are not met whe...

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 ...

Title: From a Blue-Collar Background: Gender as a Moderator and Attitudes Towards Work and Family as a Mediator on Area of Study Choices
Author: Bourque, Leah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, Education
Description: Many sociologists attribute inequality to social reproduction, where children repeat their parents' life situations. The influence of a parent’s social background is evident when a child chooses a major or career. However, the literature fails to ...

Title: Functions, Practices, and Leadership Responsibilities of High School Athletic Directors in the United States
Author: DeCesare, Tammy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The consistent growth of high school sports has created a noticeable evolution in the athletic director position requiring an increase in competencies in business administration and leadership. However, academic requirements, credentials, and trai...

Title: GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION: 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES FOR URBAN TEACHERS
Author: Menand, Howard
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: In the current knowledge economy, a connection exists between globalization and global macro policies and the micro level effect of these policies at the local classroom level. This study begins by establishing globalization's impact on education ...

Title: Getting Schooled on Resistance: Dominant and Counter Narratives of Writing and the Circulation of Power in Urban School Reform
Author: Urbanski, Cynthia
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Michel Foucault argues that power is everywhere, all of the time. He describes it as concrete, "capillary," acting in, on and through the actual body. All "knowledge" and "truth" is an effect of that power which is why power and knowledge are inte...

Title: Honoring Through Countering: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Black Male Teachers' in the South Racialized and Gendered Experiences Influence Their Teaching Practices
Author: Mason, Marquis
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The recruitment and retention of Black male teachers continue to be a national effort. While there is a plethora of research on attempts to solve this critical issue of teacher diversity, Black males continue to represent the lowest percentage of ...

Title: How school leaders prioritize and allocate resources to improve teacher quality through teacher professional development: A multiple case study in suburban North Carolina
Author: Tyson, Deonte
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
Description: This multiple case study examined the methods by which school leaders determined and planned teacher professional development, as well as what teachers perceived as their professional development needs and how they believe school leaders take thos...

Title: I'm gonna tell you that we're not a myth": Native students' and non-Native teachers' perspectives on anti-Indigenous curriculum and classrooms
Author: Hunt, Brittany
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Though North Carolina is home to the 9th largest Indigenous population in America, as well as to the largest Tribe East of the Mississippi, North Carolina curriculum and schools often erode Indigenous histories from the classroom. Indigenous peopl...

Title: IMPACT OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL EARLY LEARNING CURRICULUM ON PRESCHOOLERS’ EMPATHY SKILLS
Author: Johnson, Sarah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a social emotional learning program on preschoolers’ empathy skills. Specifically, the study examined the effect of the Second Step Social-Emotional Skills for Early Learning empathy unit on p...

Title: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION
Author: Allen, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This dissertation study explores the experiences of undergraduate students in a pilot pre-service teacher education course that addresses communication and culture in the classroom. This study is driven by three research questions: 1) do PSTs’ per...