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Title: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IN HIGH SCHOOL COMMERCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS
Author: Vintinner, Jean
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education, Secondary
Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the teachers' manuals of the leading commercial high school reading programs to determine the extent to which they provide effective vocabulary instruction as advocated by the leading professional organizat...

Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Per Pupil Expenditures on Instruction and Academic Outcomes in Michigan Public Schools
Author: Bryant, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This research quantitatively explores the relationship between per pupil expenditures on instruction and academic outcomes on Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) in Michigan state public schools. This study particularly focuses ...

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: CONCEPT IMAGE OF SLOPE: UNDERSTANDING MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE THROUGH TASK BASED INTERVIEWS
Author: Hoffman, Timothy
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The mathematical concept of slope has traditionally been a critical topic in the high school mathematics curriculum. However, current educational trends in the United States introduce this concept in middle school. This trend shifted the responsib...

Title: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...

Title: Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
Author: Mauzy, Katherine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...

Title: Journeys Into the K-12 Classroom: Latina Teachers' Narratives of Becoming
Author: Reid, Alicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: A Project in Humanizing Inquiry (San Pedro & Kinloch, 2017), this qualitative dissertation study combined in-depth interview with a LatCrit framework to story the journeys of three Latinas into teaching. Data analysis underscored the layered racia...

Title: Meeting the Literacy Needs of English Language Learners: A Case Study of the Responsiveness of District and School Reform Efforts in a North Carolina School District
Author: Sims, Timothy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: In response to increased focus on English Language Learners (ELLs), districts and schools have attempted to impact the academic performance of this group by engaging in improvement processes intended to increase achievement. The purpose of this st...

Title: THE FIGURED WORLD OF ADVOCACY IN A HIGH IMMIGRANT POPULATION URBAN SCHOOL IN THE NEW SOUTH
Author: King, Elena
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the fluctuating subjectivities of, and advocacy performed, by three content area teachers in a high-immigrant population, urban high school in the New South. Using a neo-Vygotskian theoretical framew...

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...