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Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: A QUALITATIVE MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EXPLORING HIGH-PERFORMING TEACHER AGENCY AND REFORM OF “LOW-PERFORMING” SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Kessler, William
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: Since the early 1980s, American educational reformers tried to improve schools through standards, high-stakes tests, and punishments for those schools that failed to meet the mark. In North Carolina, many schools with diverse populations and low s...

Title: An Evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a Large Urban School District
Author: Rosenbach, Laura
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational evaluation, Education and state
Description: LAURA JULIA ROSENBACH. An evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a large urban school district. (Under the direction of DR. CLAUDIA FLOWERS) This mixed method study examined the impact of a district-wide Strategic Staffing Initiative (SS...

Title: Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
Author: Covington, Azure
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...

Title: Conceptualizing Value: African American Mothers' Perspectives on School-Community Partnership, Parental Involvement, and Faith
Author: Cuthbertson, Shanitria
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Over 30 years of research on parental and community engagement in schools highlight the positive impact of school-family-community partnerships on academic achievement, social and cultural enrichment, and overall school climate (Blank, Jacobson, &...

Title: Does the proportion of white students predict discipline disparities? A national, school-level analysis of six racial/ethnic student groups
Author: Triplett, Nicholas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Education
Description: Racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline have existed for decades (Children’s Defense Fund, 1975), and have had a disproportionately negative effect on the educational attainment, social/emotional well being and life chances of students of c...

Title: EXPLORING THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S NEOCONSERVATIVE PUBLIC POLICIES INFLUENCE ON AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES' EDUCATIONAL AND LIFE OUTCOMES
Author: Yowell, Alexis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education and state
Description: This study examined the influences of President Ronald Reagan's administration's neoconservative public policies and color-blind strategy on the educational and life outcomes of African American males who attended high school between 1981 and 1989...

Title: HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS GAP: LOTTERY-BASED MODEL FOR MITIGATING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ACCESS-GAP IN NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Gamble, Eric
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Education and state, Education--Finance
Description: The rising cost of obtaining tertiary education threatens the educational dreams of thousands of North Carolina students and creates an educational access-gap between low- and high-income students. Although there are various needs-based state and ...

Title: Loving and Leaving the Classroom: Contextualizing the Attrition of Black Women Teachers From Urban Schools
Author: Lee, Shanique
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: Since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation, Black women teachers (BWTs) have had perpetually high rates of attrition, despite their legacy of providing high quality, emancipatory education (Acosta, 2019; Carver-Th...

Title: Reclaiming Our Legacy: A Qualitative Study of Service-learning and Learning About Service Through The Experiences of African American Women Educators in Urban Schools
Author: Moore, Tamera
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Education
Description: As the number of minority students in public schools increases in the U.S., the teacher workforce and administration remain majority White. Increased access to service-learning will help mitigate opportunity gaps that exist in marginalized communi...

Title: School Choice and the Latinx Community: Increased Opportunity/Exclusion in Mecklenburg County
Author: Handler, Laura
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Advocates of market-based reform strategies such as school choice claim they will offer families better options to obtain a high-quality education for their child, yet empirical studies offer inconclusive evidence of gains in student achievement a...

Title: The Seal of Biliteracy: Equity Across Lines of Race, Language, and Social Class
Author: Hancock, Charlotte
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Language and languages--Study and teaching, Education, Bilingual
Description: This quantitative study examined the awarding of the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) in North Carolina public schools. Specifically, the study explored through a multiple logistic regression if the intersectionality of race, language, and social class w...