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- 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 Case Study Examination of Male Former Youth Offenders' School Reentry Challenges and Factors Enabling Their Academic Success
- Author
- Glover, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Youth offenders often struggle to successfully return to their communities and schools after release from confinement. The reasons for this struggle are well documented, as is the fact that school engagement and success (before and after confineme...
- 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...
- Title
- A Multilevel Analysis of Black Male Secondary School Student Discipline and Achievement in Relation to Violence Exposure
- Author
- Garo, Laurie
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Mental health
- Description
- This study examined school outcomes for Black male secondary school students in relation to neighborhood violence, focusing on Disproportionality in out of school suspension and below-proficiency achievement on selected standardized tests. Grounde...
- Title
- A Post-modern Teacher Educator: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Educators with Significant Experiences in High-Needs, High-Minority Urban Schools
- Author
- Robinson, Derrick
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Teachers--Training of, Education
- Description
- Four decades of university-based teacher education reform has failed to yield favorable outcomes in teacher effectiveness in P-12 schools. A rising tide of reform and criticism from governmental agencies and neo-liberal reformers has resulted in o...
- Title
- A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Black Beginning Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Preparedness to Teach Racially Diverse Students
- Author
- Johnson, Ria
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACT RIA CRYSTAL DIANE JOHNSON. A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Black Beginning Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Preparedness to Teach Racially Diverse Students.(Under the direction of DR. CHANCE LEWIS) Beginning teachers are more likely to s...
- Title
- A Qualitative Multiple Case Study Exploring How the Lives of High School Male Students Enrolled in an Alternative Education Program Mediate Their Reading and Writing Inside The English Classroom
- Author
- Gates, Lily
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Secondary, Reading, Education
- Description
- Historically, male students have been known to score lower than their female counterparts in reading and writing on standardized measures of academic success. While scholars, teachers, and even policymakers have attempted to explain and mitigate t...
- 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
- Appropriate Measures of Effectiveness: Teacher Evaluations and Value-Added Measures in North Carolina
- Author
- Covington, Azure
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education and state
- Description
- The increased use of value-added measures is a result of policymakers viewing traditional measures of teacher effectiveness as obsolete and unrelated to student achievement. Additionally, literature lacks substantial findings examining the relatio...
- Title
- Conceptualizing Value: African American Mothers' Perspectives on School-Community Partnership, Parental Involvement, and Faith
- Author
- Cuthbertson, Shanitria
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education and state
- Description
- Over 30 years of research on parental and community engagement in schools highlight the positive impact of school-family-community partnerships on academic achievement, social and cultural enrichment, and overall school climate (Blank, Jacobson, &...
- Title
- EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DRAMATIC ARTS ON UNDEREXAMINED LITERACIES: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- Author
- York, Portia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This study examined the influence of drama participation on foundational, digital, and Black Girls’ literacies of urban middle school Black girls. This interpretive case study used the Culturally Relevant Arts Education framework with Black Femini...
- Title
- EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT ONE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- Author
- Morgan, Jonimay
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- Beginning with the Lau decision (Sugarman & Widess, 1974), it has been the responsibility of schools to provide educational support to English Language Learners (ELL). However, as elucidated by Hakuta (2017), educators continually struggle to supp...
- Title
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Montessori Reading and Math Instruction for Third Grade African American Students in Urban Elementary Schools
- Author
- Brown, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Improving academic achievement for students of color has long been the subject of debate among advocates of education reform (Anyon, 2013; Breitborde & Swiniarski, 2006; Payne, 2008). Some scholars have advocated for the Montessori method as an al...
- Title
- FACTORS INFLUENCING BLACK FEMALE TEACHERS' JOB SATISFACTION AND INTENTION TO REMAIN IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM: A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS
- Author
- Farinde, Abiola
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, current retention trends indicate a Black teacher shortage. Research shows that Black teachers' retention rates are often lower than White teachers'. In examining retention, job satisfaction has been ...
- Title
- Factors Affecting Grades: An Examination of North Carolina School Performance Grades
- Author
- Dangerfield-Persky, Felicia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- This quantitative study explores the potential school-level and school district-level factors associated with North Carolina school performance grades in K-5 elementary schools. The desire was to examine if any of the school- or school district-le...
- Title
- Factors Influencing Teen Suicide-Related Behaviors Among Racially Diverse High School Students in a Southeastern Urban School District
- Author
- Richardson, Sonyia
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Social service
- Description
- This quantitative study explores factors related to suicide-related behaviors among high school students in a southeastern urban racially diverse school district. It sought to examine whether race was a moderator of identified predictors and the o...
- Title
- From Egypt to Canaan: A Phenomenological Study of the Racial Messaging Black Males Received While Attending Conservative Christian Schools
- Author
- Willis, Evan
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Since the full desegregation of all Christian schools in 1983 there has been limited inquiry into the role of race in these academic institutions. Furthermore, Christian education literature has had limited exploration into the role of race. When ...
- Title
- Honoring Through Countering: A Qualitative Study Exploring How Black Male Teachers' in the South Racialized and Gendered Experiences Influence Their Teaching Practices
- Author
- Mason, Marquis
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The recruitment and retention of Black male teachers continue to be a national effort. While there is a plethora of research on attempts to solve this critical issue of teacher diversity, Black males continue to represent the lowest percentage of ...
- Title
- Incidents In The Life Of A Cyber Girl: Exploring Instagram As A Potential Counterspace For Black Girls’ Literacy Practices
- Author
- Anderson, Jimmeka
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational technology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
- Description
- Although research has been done to explore social media as a safe space with Black girls (Womack, 2013), there is limited research that assesses social media as a counter space for Black girls’ literacies. According to The Associated Press-NORC Ce...
- 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...