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- Title
- Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
- Author
- Creech, Tracy
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Library science
- Description
- There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...
- Title
- VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
- Author
- Adams, Tempestt
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...
- Title
- Transforming Early Childhood Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
- Author
- Ardrey, Tameka
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Early childhood education
- Description
- Low-income African American children have been identified among the majority of children without access to high-quality early education (Barnett, Carolan & Johns, 2013). Consequently, they lack the necessary skills to successfully navigate the sch...
- 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
- 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
- Reducing the Underrepresentation of Black Male Middle School Students in Higher Level Mathematics Courses: Principals' Perspectives
- Author
- Barone, Jacqueline
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Middle school education
- Description
- Students in urban schools face a number of challenges including lower enrollment numbers in higher level mathematics courses. This particular challenge has the drastic consequence of increasing the achievement gap and reducing the opportunities av...
- Title
- Redefining The Discipline Gatekeeper: A Mixed Method Analysis Of Urban Middle School Assistant Principals
- Author
- Williams III, John
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership
- Description
- African American students, despite over four decades of research and reports, still receive the highest percentage of school discipline infractions (i.e., office referrals, in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and referral...
- Title
- Putting Equity to Work: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Teacher Candidates Perceptions on Equity and Social Justice Pedagogy in a Teacher Preparation Program
- Author
- Jones-Fosu, Stephanie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- For decades, White supremacy and Whitewashed teacher preparation curriculum have been used to prepare a majority White female teacher workforce. This same workforce has had limited exposure to diversity and a lack of cultural competence and critic...
- Title
- MY SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION AS A BLACK FEMALE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR AND FACTORS AFFECTING MY RETENTION: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY
- Author
- Steele, Aimy
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Information regarding school administrator quality, impact, and effectiveness exists in abundance (Bloom & Erlandson, 2003; Eagly, Karau, Johnson, 1992; Simien, 2005). There are few studies and research about the career development of Black female...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, &...