Given the many challenges at the high school level to incorporate intensive fluency and comprehension interventions into high school courses, there remains a need for mor[...]

As the number of minority students in public schools increases in the U.S., the teacher workforce and administration remain majority White. Increased access to service-le[...]

There is a growing emphasis on meeting the diverse educational needs of all students which has drawn attention towards inclusive education. The number of students with se[...]

National data continue to indicate many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have not had the same access to education, employment, independ[...]

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (Raue & Lewis, 2011), students with disabilities (SWD) attend postsecondary education at rates similar to th[...]

In the current knowledge economy, a connection exists between globalization and global macro policies and the micro level effect of these policies at the local classroom [...]

Family engagement with schools has been shown to be a predictor of student success (Powell et at., 2010) and federal statute supports school/ family relationships through[...]

Students with learning disabilities are most typically characterized as struggling readers (i.e., 80-90% of students are identified on the basis of reading failure; LD On[...]

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of diagnostic formative assessment feedback on early literacy skills. The participants were 12 first-grade general ed[...]

This dissertation explored Black/African American students’ perceptions of college readiness through student demographic questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and f[...]