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Title: A Case Study of the Strategic Staffing Initiative Used In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: March, Kendra
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Accountability standards challenge schools to provide quality education for all students and to ensure that all students are on grade level by the end of the school year. If schools fall short of this challenge failing to make at least one year of...

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: A Study of the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement
Author: Crawford, Jamal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the 2002 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, was the signature education legislation of the George W. Bush administration. NCLB was but the latest evolution of at least two pre...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS OF NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Author: Helf, James
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: School administrators are faced with an increased number of responsibilities and challenges. In order to effectively create and maintain effective schools, educational leaders must provide principals with the proper tools. The purpose of this stud...

Title: Education for Sustainable Development in Global Ready Schools: A Comparative Case Study
Author: Holshouser, Kaitlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental education, Education, Elementary
Description: This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina’s Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliate...

Title: Establishing time-continuous normative scores for Teaching Strategies GOLD® using a multilevel growth curve modeling approach
Author: Luce, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: Young children are assessed to meet federal mandates and inform policy decisions, provide teachers with useful information to make instructional decisions and set reasonable learning goals, and facilitate communication with families. While young c...

Title: FACULTY PERCEPTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE IN DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING ACCESSIBLE ONLINE COURSES
Author: Guilbaud, Thelma
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: This study examined the perceptions of university faculty on their knowledge and accessibility practices in designing and delivering online courses for students with disabilities. An online survey developed by the researcher was utilized to collec...

Title: NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Zuo, Huifang
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: In the United States, the academic achievement gap between European American and African American students has been identified as one of the major problems related to educational equity. Students’ academic achievement has been largely examined fro...

Title: State-Led Virtual School Senior Leaders: An Exploratory Study
Author: Sivy, Mark
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the role-related characteristics, factors, and requirements that can influence state-led virtual school senior leaders' leadership qualities, attributes, beliefs, and approaches. Semi-structured interviews ...

Title: Supporting Students' Conceptions of Algebraic Equations and Expressions Using Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) Design Theory
Author: Miller, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Mathematics
Description: This study investigated ways to support students’ development of mathematical meaning making as they learned to simplify and solve algebraic expressions and equations. The literature addresses the occurrence of specific conceptions by students of ...

Title: The Association of Frequency of Utilizing Student Services with Student Success at a Community College
Author: Kendra-Dill, Zachary
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: As colleges work to meet performance standards, staff have been placed in key service areas to help students be successful. With the majority of the seven million community college students attending part-time, needing developmental education, and...

Title: USING THE CONTEXTUALIZED INTERACTION MODEL TO EXAMINE CHANGES IN TEACHER BELIEFS
Author: Neale, Henry
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
Description: With the increased importance placed on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields throughout the world but particularly in the United States, research in mathematics education has become widely recognized as critical to e...

Title: Using Tools to Support Productive Mathematical Discussions: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Bacak, Julie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education, Elementary, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Facilitating productive mathematical discussions is considered a core practice of mathematics education. The complexity of this teaching practice presents the need for pedagogical tools to provide structure for preservice teachers (PST) developing...

Title: WRITING TO UNDERSTAND, EXPLAIN, AND REFLECT: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A WRITERS' WORKSHOP MODEL IN A FOURTH-GRADE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Author: Martin, Christie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purposes of this study are to (1) understand how elementary school students use writing to reflect their learning and problem solving in mathematics; and (2) to explore how teachers adapt their instructional approaches based upon reflection on...