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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: An Athlete's Humble Beginnings: A Place-Based Narrative in Need of Repair
Author: Lash, Barbara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Sports play a unique role in American culture and act as sources of entertainment and community identity. Events that include sports are also a microcosm of society that simultaneously reflects and guides cultural and racial differences that are i...

Title: An Exploration of Learning Experiences: A Case Study of African American Male High School Students in Different English Tracks
Author: Williams, Brian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACTBRIAN KEITH WILLIAMS. An exploration of learning experiences: A case study of African American male high school students in different English tracks. (Under the direction of DR. BRUCE TAYLOR)This study used qualitative research methodology...

Title: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT CRITICAL SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG SCIENCE EDUCATORS
Author: Crabtree, Lenora
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Science--Study and teaching
Description: Justice-oriented pedagogies support students’ sociopolitical, or critical, consciousness. Research reveals, however, that science educators, the majority of whom are white, struggle to enact these practices. The purpose of this Design-based Resear...

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: 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: From Recall to Resolve: Supporting the Development of Culturally Responsive Preservice Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course
Author: Glover, Crystal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Teachers--Training of, Language arts
Description: The need for culturally responsive teachers in an increasingly diverse educational system is paramount. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice teachers' developing understandings of culturally responsive pedagogy in a language art...

Title: North Carolina High School Alternative School Administrators’ Perceptions of School Performance Measures
Author: Clemons, Shannon
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Education
Description: This qualitative study investigates the perceptions of alternative school administrators in North Carolina about the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) on them and their campuses. The study interviewed four alternative high school adm...

Title: Reimagining School Discipline: A White, Female Principal's Experience Implementing Restorative Practices and SW-PBIS
Author: Cook, Trisha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Educators and researchers have been exploring alternative approaches to school discipline such as School-wide Positive Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) and Restorative Justice. While these programs and practices along have been determined to b...

Title: The Effects of Tier II Check-In Check-Out Intervention and Tier III Function-Based Self-Management on the Disruptive Behavior and Academic Engagement of Selected African American Male Students
Author: Bunch-Crump, Kimberly
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Social sciences
Description: Many African American males experience disproportionate exclusionary discipline actions, disproportionate special education referrals and restrictive placements, poor academic achievement, and poor post-school outcomes, a phenomenon often referred...

Title: The Effects of the Self-Advocacy and Conflict Resolution Training on Ability to Request and Negotiate Academic Accommodations with High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Bethune, Lauren
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Over the past few decades, more persons with disabilities, including students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, are enrolling and attending postsecondary education. With this increase, as students with ASD transition to postsecondary education, thes...