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Title: VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
Author: Adams, Tempestt
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS' ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS, AND SKILLS ON CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE IN AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM
Author: Long, Pamela
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Today's students are more ethnically diverse than ever, but are taught by teachers who are a majority white. In response to this cultural mismatch, teachers are adopting innovative practices such as culturally responsive teaching. This qualitative...

Title: Reducing the Underrepresentation of Black Male Middle School Students in Higher Level Mathematics Courses: Principals' Perspectives
Author: Barone, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education
Description: Students in urban schools face a number of challenges including lower enrollment numbers in higher level mathematics courses. This particular challenge has the drastic consequence of increasing the achievement gap and reducing the opportunities av...

Title: Putting Equity to Work: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Teacher Candidates Perceptions on Equity and Social Justice Pedagogy in a Teacher Preparation Program
Author: Jones-Fosu, Stephanie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: For decades, White supremacy and Whitewashed teacher preparation curriculum have been used to prepare a majority White female teacher workforce. This same workforce has had limited exposure to diversity and a lack of cultural competence and critic...

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: Concrete Roses: An Exploration of the Parallel Lived Experiences of Black Girls and Women in K-12 Schools
Author: Davis, Alicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ALICIA W. DAVIS. Concrete roses: An exploration of the parallel lived experiences of Black girls and women in K-12 schools. (Under the direction of DR. BETTIE RAY BUTLER)The schooling and leadership experiences of Black girls and women are overloo...

Title: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF EXPERIENCES OF TRAUMA-TRAINED K-12 TEACHERS PRACTICING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE APPROACHES WITHIN THEIR CLASSROOMS
Author: McCasey, Christine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Educational psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Trauma-informed care (TIC) has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies in various contexts for nearly four decades. Thus, TIC practices have been shown to reduce educators' stress (Jaycox et al., 2019), increase teacher awareness of student...

Title: A Historical Case Study of an All-Black High School in Pre-Brown Charlotte, North Carolina from 1960-1969
Author: Ford, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: While the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision may have overturned the legal practice of race-based segregation in public schools on the basis of separate being "inherently unequal," the promise of equality for Black students in the Unite...