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- Title
- "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
- Author
- Ferrara, Angela
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
- Description
- Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...
- Title
- A LEGISLATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
- Author
- Griffin, Richard
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education and state, Education--Finance
- Description
- The North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS) experienced a decline in its funded ratio from 112% in 2002 to 94% in 2011 and an increase in its unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities over the same period. The change i...
- Title
- A Legal Analysis of the Involvement of School Resource Officers in Searches and Seizures in K-12 Public Schools
- Author
- Wells, Richard
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to develop a set of court-based guiding principles for the integration of school resource officers in searches and seizures in K-12 public schools. This purpose was achieved by applying Standard Legal Analysis methodo...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
- Author
- Stroble, Christine
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
- Description
- The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...
- Title
- A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF BEGINNING PK–12 PUBLIC EDUCATION TEACHERS ON DEFINED BENEFIT RETIREMENT PLANS
- Author
- Mangiaracina, Rex
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state, Education--Finance, School management and organization
- Description
- ABSTRACTA QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF BEGINNING PK–12 PUBLIC EDUCATION TEACHERS ON DEFINED BENEFIT RETIREMENT PLANS. The significance of this study was its ability to further inform beginning PK–12 public education teachers and policy ...
- 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 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
- 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
- Demystifying the Charlotte Way: Towards an Understanding of Collective Action for Education in the Queen City.
- Author
- Owens, Cache
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Education and state
- Description
- This qualitative grounded theory study sought to understand how different stakeholders collaborate to improve schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. 52 diverse individuals participated in this study. A new hybrid approach of collective action, refe...
- Title
- Does the proportion of white students predict discipline disparities? A national, school-level analysis of six racial/ethnic student groups
- Author
- Triplett, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state, Education
- Description
- Racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline have existed for decades (Children’s Defense Fund, 1975), and have had a disproportionately negative effect on the educational attainment, social/emotional well being and life chances of students of c...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF TEACHER DIVERSITY AND STUDENT-TEACHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MATCHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
- Author
- Banerjee, Neena
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
- Description
- This dissertation investigates the implications of student-teacher racial/ethnic matching on two educational outcomes. The fourth chapter investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students' math and reading achievement growth i...
- 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
- Examining the Relationship between School Security Measures, Sense of Safety and Academic Achievement using an Intersectional Framework: A Moderated-Mediation Model
- Author
- Siegal, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state
- Description
- School security measures (SSMs), which include school resource officers (SROs), security cameras, and metal detectors, are used in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States (Musu-Gillette et al., 2019) and can cost school syste...
- Title
- HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS GAP: LOTTERY-BASED MODEL FOR MITIGATING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ACCESS-GAP IN NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Gamble, Eric
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Education and state, Education--Finance
- Description
- The rising cost of obtaining tertiary education threatens the educational dreams of thousands of North Carolina students and creates an educational access-gap between low- and high-income students. Although there are various needs-based state and ...
- Title
- K-12 Principals' Perceptions of State and Local Wellness Policies
- Author
- Jefferies, Shelton
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education and state, School management and organization
- Description
- ABSTRACTSHELTON L. JEFFERIES. K-12 principals' perceptions of state and local wellness policies. (Under the direction of DR. J. ALLEN QUEEN)The prevalence of obesity and a high probability of an increased medical and financial toll have prompted l...
- 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
- NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT SINCE IMPLEMENTING TIERED FUNDING TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Author
- Davis, Marc
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education and state, Education--Finance
- Description
- Since the 2008 recession, public higher education in terms of both two- and four-year institutions has been cut by $9 billion in state and local funding (Mitchell, Leachman, & Matterson, 2017). Between 2005 and 2016, state and local appropriations...
- Title
- PREDICTORS OF OPINIONS OF K-12 HIGH AND LOW BMI STATE PRINCIPALS WITH VARYING DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS IN THE ROLE AS INSTRUCTIONAL CATALYST FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY
- Author
- Francis, Philip
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state
- Description
- The researcher's purpose in the study was to examine the predictors of the opinions, attitudes or beliefs of K-12 high and low BMI state principals from varying demographic factors by serving in the role as instructional catalyst by leading classr...
- Title
- ROLES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SPENDING AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
- Author
- Jha, Nandan
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- Equity in school district spending, and equity and productive efficiency in educational outcomes are of paramount importance in the literature on K-12 public education in the US. The research on the effects of school choice (operationalized as int...