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Title: A Legal Analysis of Students' First Amendment Rights in K-12 Public Education as it Relates to Internet Speech
Author: Erdie, Julia
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Adolescents are rarely without a cellphone and typically have unfettered access to social media sites where they post their status or comment on their friends’ posts. When said communication is used to bully or threaten others, it brings on challe...

Title: A Legal Analysis of the Involvement of School Resource Officers in Searches and Seizures in K-12 Public Schools
Author: Wells, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop a set of court-based guiding principles for the integration of school resource officers in searches and seizures in K-12 public schools. This purpose was achieved by applying Standard Legal Analysis methodo...

Title: AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES: DO THEY PERFORM BETTER ON STANDARDIZED READING AND MATHEMATICS TESTS IN TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR NON-TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS?
Author: Anderson, Sony
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: African-American males continue to slip through the cracks of the Education System in America. McSpadden McNeil et al. (2008) report that district officials continue to focus on school scores as if they are the only way to assess student progress....

Title: African American Male Former Student Athletes' Perceptions of their Academic Experiences and Faculty Expectations of their Coursework at Predominantly White Institutions
Author: Chaplin III, Nathan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative phenomenological study investigated the academic experience of African American (AA) male student athletes based on the recollected narratives of nine former student athletes who had played sports at a National Collegiate Athletic...

Title: Does ‘Working After Work’ Affect Teachers’ Confidence? Examining Teacher Efficacy in a Professional Development Program
Author: Gartlan, Scott
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Training of
Description: This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explana...

Title: Exploring the Relationship of Grit as a Non-Cognitive Predictor of First Semester Academic Success for Community College Transfer Students
Author: Simms, Howard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: A growing narrative within higher education is to discover better practices and strategies that will increase retention and graduation rates among community college transfer students. Community college transfer students are at significant risk of ...

Title: FACULTY PERCEPTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE IN DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING ACCESSIBLE ONLINE COURSES
Author: Guilbaud, Thelma
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: This study examined the perceptions of university faculty on their knowledge and accessibility practices in designing and delivering online courses for students with disabilities. An online survey developed by the researcher was utilized to collec...

Title: From Early College to the University: A Case Study Exploring First-Semester Experiences
Author: Smith, Bradley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: This single case study explored the first-semester experiences of twelve early college high school (ECHS) graduates as they transitioned to a large, public university in North Carolina. The purpose was to understand how early college graduates mad...

Title: Navigating Life Experiences: Voices of African American Women Pursuing a College Degree After Incarceration
Author: Smith, April
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: This study examined the experiences of African American women pursuing college degrees after incarceration despite systemic barriers. The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) through the lens of Bla...

Title: THE IMPACT OF SECONDARY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ON STUDENT POST-SECONDARY PREPAREDNESS
Author: Pore, Holly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Beneath most efforts to reform education is the assumption that its current direction can be problematic, or, at minimum, not as effective for the economy, labor market, and workplace. The reform of the American high school must have Career and Te...

Title: VALIDITY OF THE 2013 NSSE ENGAGEMENT INDICATOR MODEL FOR PERSISTING TRANSFER STUDENTS: A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS STUDY
Author: Le, Thanh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
Description: The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (2015) reported that there were 2.4 million student transitions from one institution to another over a six-year period between 2008 and 2014. According to the Student Achievement Measure (SAM, n.d...