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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: 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...

Title: Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: McDaniel, Paul
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Education and state
Description: Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...

Title: Standardized Distraction: Why the Emphasis on High-Stakes Testing Can't Resolve Educational Inequality
Author: Giersch, Jason
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: Standardized testing has exploded into nearly every grade level and subject area in public education over the past two decades. Attaching high stakes to standardized test results was intended to improve education for all students, but especially f...

Title: THE RETENTION OF FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS IN STEM: AN EXTENSION OF TINTO’S LONGITUDINAL MODEL
Author: Uche, Ada
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Educational sociology
Description: In the current technologically advanced global economy, the role of human capital and education cannot be over-emphasized. Since almost all great inventions in the world have a scientific or technological foundation, having a skilled workforce is ...

Title: THE TITLE WAIVE: A POLICY AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE 50 STATES’ ESEA WAIVERS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FEDERALISM AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW MAKING IN EDUCATION POLICY
Author: Trull, Sheena
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state, Law
Description: The aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Flexibility Waivers administered by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan since 2012. As a function of federalism, local school p...

Title: Tradeoffs in the use of value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness by school districts
Author: Baxter, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state
Description: A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measure the productivity of their teachers in terms of student outcomes. The use o...