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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- 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 OF AN EFFECTIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ALGEBRA I TEACHER
- Author
- Linton, Patricia
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTPATRICIA LORRAINE CURTIS LINTON. A case study of an effective middle school Algebra I teacher. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)Using a qualitative case study approach, the research was an exploration of the perceptions of midd...
- 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 Comparison of Factors that Influence the Quality of PEPs in Title I Schools
- Author
- Williams, Connie
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between school-based organizational structures that support teachers' development of Personalized Education Plans (PEPs) and their quality as written for third through fifth grade stude...
- 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 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT OF ACCULTURATION, ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, AND COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY AMONG FOREIGN BORN COUNSELING STUDENTS
- Author
- Interiano-Shiverdecker, Claudia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to examine how cultural practices, cultural values, cultural identification, and acculturative stress related to counselor self-efficacy among foreign-born counseling students. A total of 93 foreign-born students curr...
- 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 NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN PROMOTING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY
- Author
- Sanczyk, Anna
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- With an increasing immigrant population in the United States, there is a growing number of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in adult education institutions. Given that English language learners (ELLs) come from various backgrounds, they ...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Inquiry to Understand Environmental Work Factors, Academic Readiness and Supervisory Needs of Interprofessional Collaborative Counselors
- Author
- Kipick Cawn, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Counseling psychology, Mental health
- Description
- The multi-professional health care setting calls for a stronger evidence-based practice for providing collaborative framework/theory across disciplines. The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the perspectives of counselors wh...
- 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 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
- A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
- Author
- Kincaid, Nicki
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Reading
- Description
- This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...
- Title
- A comparison of Spanish and English multimedia shared story interventions on the acquisition of English vocabulary for English language learners with an intellectual disability
- Author
- Rivera, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Multicultural education, Education
- Description
- Literature on the development of literacy skills for students with a moderate to severe intellectual disability is growing; however, little is known about effective literacy practices for Hispanic English language learners with a moderate intellec...
- Title
- AN EXAMINATION OF FACTORS RELATED TO ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELORS
- Author
- Perry, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational counseling, Education, Ethics
- Description
- Professional school counselors are faced with the task of implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that supports the academic, social-emotional, and college and career development of all students they serve. While implementing such w...
- Title
- AN UNFULFILLED DREAM OF AN URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: A FAILED EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM
- Author
- Doyle, Kerri
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Curriculum planning, Educational sociology
- Description
- This research presents the qualitative case study of an urban community school initiative that began as an educational reform effort and that ultimately failed. The process of emergence for this school and factors leading to its collapse are descr...
- Title
- Adolescent Response to Parental Traumatic Brain Injury and Ambiguous Loss
- Author
- Leach, William
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- Parental traumatic brain injury (TBI-P) and the effect it has on adolescents living in the home has been mostly avoided in the current literature. Even more rare in the literature is the idea of ambiguous loss, coined by Boss (1991). An ambiguous ...