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VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
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Author
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Adams, Tempestt
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
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Author
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Andrews, Horace
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...
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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
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Exploring Sense of Belonging Among First-Generation College, Second-Generation Immigrant Students
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Author
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Brais, Sayde
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of four-year university and college students identifying as first-generation in college (FGC) and second-generation immigrant (SGI) in the United States., with a focus on a sense of be...
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AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
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Author
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Brooks, Temeka
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...
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WHO I AM IN STEM: BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN, A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT, AND A STEM MAJOR
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Author
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Dounebaine, Yolanda
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Science--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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This qualitative research study utilized the stories of ten African American community college STEM transfer students to explore STEM identity formation, the role race played in this identity formation, the educational experiences that influenced ...
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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
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Black Lives Matter and Black Power
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Author
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Fraser, Daviana
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...
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Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
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Author
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Hopper, Eugenia
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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African American teachers make up only about 7% of teachers in the United States, while African American students make up 16% of the public school population. Unfortunately, African American teachers leave teaching at almost a 60% higher rate when...
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A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
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Author
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Hunt, David
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...
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The Economic Impact of Spatial Income Inequality
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Author
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Li, Huiping
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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City planning, Economics, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central city-suburban income disparity, and government fragmentation. Combining the comp...