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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
Author: Wheatley, Torie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
Description: There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...

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: 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 Intergenerational Oral History of African American Students in Edgecombe County, North Carolina from 1930-1980
Author: Mungo, Sequoya
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The literature about the history of African American education must continue to move beyond deficit-centered research and further explore the varied perceptions and experiences of African Americans from their perspectives. Traditional research oft...

Title: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLACEMENT: HOW EMERGING POLICY AND PRACTICE RELATE TO SUCCESS AND PERSISTENCE
Author: Helget, Donna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether the method of course placement for the first attempted English and mathematics courses was independent of the student demographic variables of gender, race/ethnicity, and Pell Grant eli...

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: Evidence-Based and Makerspaced: Preservice Teachers’ Dispositions, Perceptions, and Preparedness to Teach Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Author: Holland, Abby
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purpose of this qualitative research project was to explore the perceptions, practices, and roles that a team of six (6) preservice teachers developed regarding make-based learning, which is informed by constructionism and teaching students wi...

Title: Exploring the Experiences of Black Resident Advisors at Historically White Institutions
Author: Murray, Morgan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The resident advisor (RA) position is one of the most complex and important roles on college campuses in the United States. Few other student staff positions require the same level of training and have the same level of responsibilities (Blimling,...

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: HE WHO FEEDS YOU: THE MALES PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A FACILITATOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN BLACK MALE YOUTH
Author: Simmons, Alexander
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Developmental psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Recent theory and findings suggest that even while enduring adverse social circumstances such as poverty, Black male youth exhibit strengths that can aid in their development. Some frameworks maintain that youth strengths can be fostered through i...

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: 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: PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AMONGST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSISTERS IN A BUSINESS PROGRAM AT A PREDOMINANTLY-WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Allen, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: While representation of African American students in freshmen enrollment has improved, degree attainment of African Americans and other minority groups continue to lag behind the White and Asian American populations. Compounding the issue of lower...

Title: STAYING THE COURSE: THE PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BIOLOGY MAJORS AT A PREDOMINATLY WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Pass, Michelle
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACTMICHELLE B. PASS. Staying the course: the persistence of African American biology majors at a predominantly White Institution. (Under the direction of Dr. CHANCE W. LEWIS) Increasing the number of African Americans graduating with STEM deg...

Title: SUSPENSION RATES FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR IN RELATION TO THE PRESENCE OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS IN THREE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: McDonald, Tyrone
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term and short-term suspension and expulsion rates for Black males, White males, Black females and White female students in grades K-12 in relation to the presence of school resource officers (SROs...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTION OF ADHD AND ITS INFLUENCES WHEN TEACHING READING TO ELEMENTARY MALES WITH ADHD
Author: Keller, Beth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The learning needs of students diagnosed with ADHD have been of interest of researchers over the last three decades. It is important to understand how best to support these learners in the classroom as they comprise about 10% of students in our na...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL
Author: Finley, Lauren
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Professional learning communities
Description: ABSTRACTLAUREN L.FINLEY. Teacher perceptions regarding the implementation of the professional learning communities at the elementary school level. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT RICKELMAN) The purpose of this study was to describe elementary s...

Title: THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
Author: Talley Matthews, Sheikia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACT. Institutions of higher education in the United States enroll the largest number of international students in the world each year (Bain & Cummings, 2005). In 2014-2015, the United States hosted 974,926 international students from around t...

Title: The Black College Experience: What Does it Mean to African American Teens? A Descriptive Case Study Investigating Student Perceptions and its Influence on College Choice and HBCU Student Enrollment
Author: Scott, Lakia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to represent a great legacy in the history of education for African Americans; however, these institutions are faced with contemporary challenges that include: declining Black enrollmen...