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College dropout crisis has become one the major problems in U.S. Higher Education. Over the past decade, universities nation-wide have been trying to better understand the specific factors that influence undergraduate degree completion...
The study conducted in Dolphin County School District offers a comprehensive exploration of teacher beliefs among K-8 educators, specifically focusing on perspectives related to mathematics instruction. The findings reveal a diverse...
Students need proficient literacy skills if they are to be successful in school and in life. Students typically master foundational literacy skills in the primary grades, and their abilities continue to develop throughout middle and high...
Black male student-athletes are not graduating near or at the same rates as their counterparts. Moreover, many are leaving college underprepared professionally and personally. These young men often dream and work toward competing...
The low quality of educational services in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique &...
In this study, I analyzed the Florida anti-bullying law and compared it to the adopted anti-bullying policies at the district and school levels to describe if there were significant discrepancies between the state-level anti-bullying law...
Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world’s least developed countries. The country faces numerous social and health problems such as widespread household poverty and a high rate of HIV/AIDS infections, with severe consequences for children...
Researchers have given extensive consideration to public school teachers' retention. Yet, despite independent schools enrolling approximately 12% of our nation's students, the work that has been completed on teachers at independent...
First-generation, low-income students currently complete higher education degrees at lower rates than their peers. It is well established that focusing on a students' academic and social integration during their first four semesters can...
This qualitative exploratory case study examines how low-income, Black boys, who are eligible for accelerated curricular courses at Amos P. Godby High School, decide to pursue or to not pursue accelerated coursework. The research...
Exploring Grade Retention Policy: A Case Study of How Elementary School Administrators and Teachers Make Sense of School District Grade Retention Policy
Grade retention has long been at the center of education debates (Rothstein, 1998). Despite the overwhelming evidence of the negative effect of retention on student's self-esteem (Holmes and Matthews, 1984), attitude towards school ...
States are running out of qualified teachers. However, data from numerous studies indicated that the problem is not a shortage of teachers, but a problem of teacher turnover (Darling-Hammond, 2000). The purpose of this study is to...
Making Symbolic Meaning Through the Engagement of Intercultural Exchanges: The Relationship Between Intercultural Communication and Global Competnecy on a U.S. University Campus
This study reveals how participants in cross-cultural programs engage in intercultural communication with one another and reflect on global competency. Researchers agree that many U.S. students graduating from universities today are not...
Traditionally, women's leadership has been overlooked and underappreciated by researchers and policymakers although this leadership has been vital to America's ultimate success and infrastructure. Simply stated, contributions of female...
Research literature suggests that school leadership matters, and that their influence on student achievement is typically observed through indirect means. Following suit, the purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of school...
Some contend that grievance procedures, which typically include arbitration as the final stage of the process, may be a hindrance in administrators' ability to exercise discretion in school management operations (Hess & Kelly, 2006;...
This quantitative research study investigates the relationship between home-school communication and its connection with student attendance and the relationship between ESOL students' attendance and academic achievement, focusing...
This study examined the relationship between engaging institutional environments and alumni donor participation rates at 310 colleges and universities. The study found that engaging environments have positive relationships to alumni...
This dissertation utilizes a basic qualitative exploratory approach to examine the schooling experiences of eight Black high school males in a predominantly White community. It seeks to understand how they define and make sense of their...
School Is Always Hard. With the Covid Stuff, It's Just Hard in a Different Way: Voices of African American, Male Teenage Students during a Global Pandemic
This dissertation utilized a reflective narrative inquiry to document the authentic, lived educational experiences of African American, male, ninth grade students who navigated their middle school years during the COVID-19 global...
Demand for opportunities to earn accelerated credit has steadily grown over the past few decades. Increasingly, students are earning more credits via a variety of acceleration options, including but not limited to Advanced Placement (AP)...
This evaluation assessed the Curving Cliffs Program (a pseudonym) and how well it reflected the framework for Effective Everyday Practice Supporting School Readiness for All Children in the domain of pre-literacy. The program was a...
Educational accountability is predicated on the notion that holding institutions accountable for the performance of their students will improve efficiency. Higher education institutions have not seen the same changes in federal...
Academic advising has been a recognized field of work for well over 50 years. Yet, debates continue about its status as a profession. To date, administrator perceptions of the role (purposes, outcomes, and functions) of academic advising...
Public education in the United States has seen many changes over the years. Some of those changes came in response to what are now recognized as clear problems with religious liberty in the common education system adopted in the mid 1800...
Research on self-efficacy and how it is developed in K-12 educational spaces has primarily focused on traditional classroom spaces and activities. Little research has focused on self-efficacy development in the context of outdoor...
The unemployment rate is very high in Kenya, with approximately 25% of the youth between the ages of 15 and 25 being currently unemployed (GOK, 2007). Some entrepreneurship education scholars believe that entrepreneurship education can...
To better understand the factors related to teachers' turnover decisions in the face of high rates of teacher turnover, the study used a large national secondary dataset – the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2000-2001...
ABSTRACT The Indonesia Open University (Universitas Terbuka or UT) face-to-face tutoring program for in-service teacher training is intended to improve teacher trainees' course completion rates. The university has attempted to intensify...
College-readiness rates across the nation and in Florida are bleak. About a third of 2019 Florida high school graduates taking the ACT or SAT met college-readiness benchmarks (ACT, Inc., 2019; College Board, 2019). Almost 70% of those...
In the United States, postsecondary educational attainment positively correlates to the probability of a person being employed and the amount of money they earn (U.S. Department of Labor, 2018). Financial aid programs attempt to help...
Low-income and first-generation college students are a well-researched student population often highlighted by their complex postsecondary participation patterns. While there is much literature that examines the college choices of these...
Understanding the Initial Utilization and Impact of Programmatic Grant Funding at Florida College System Institutions during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from the Field
The COVID-19 pandemic was a unique phenomenon that significantly impacted higher education. Programmatic grants were an important source of funding at community colleges during this unusual time, helping to provide vital resources and...
This research study sought to better understand what motivates and influences young alumni to engage with their alma mater. For many development and alumni relations departments, alumni have become a source of private funding to assist...
Higher education institutions embrace internet technology and online services in all aspects of campus life. The internet plays a significant role in the academic environment and is utilized in various institutional business practices....
The purpose of this study is to analyze the evolution of the federal government's role in developing policies designed to assist low-income students prepare for and enroll in college. Specifically, the study analyzed public laws...
School choice reform rests on the notion that competition amongst schools will produce more efficient schools and improve the educational system as a whole. This study focused on the impact of school choice competition on school...
In the face of economic, environmental, and security crises, forced displacement is increasing globally, drawing millions of men, women, and children from their homes and placing them into often unpredictable and indefinite states of...
Understanding the Relationship among School Conditions, Job Satisfaction, and Teacher Intention to Stay in Charter Schools versus Traditional Public Schools
The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship among school conditions, teacher job satisfaction, intention to stay, and school type (charter versus traditional public schools) and to determine if school conditions, and...
Adolescent literacy is an important topic from a national research, policy, and practice perspective, as public schools and school districts across the United States frequently find difficulties in preparing students to meet the literacy...
This dissertation examines parents’ perspectives on their children’s development of social and emotional skills, both at home and at school. It explores how parents view the school’s role and their own role; how they conceptualize and...
This dissertation highlights the experience of personalization in schools in the context of high-stakes test-based education accountability policy. Historically, personalization has been understood to be essential to the teaching...
For more than 50 years, federal courts have intervened in both the correctional and educational fields on such issues as prison conditions, due process, school integration, and free and appropriate rights to education. However, ...
The concept of instructional leadership, emerging out of the growing body of research that supports the importance of the principal in school reform (i.e. Marzano, 2003; Hallinger & Heck, 1998), has been pressed to the forefront of the...
This study builds on prior literature that examines the importance of Black male teachers in the K-12 public education system. I began by exploring the differential attitudes of Black male teachers and the systemic, institutional, and...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of Florida's Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship on the retention rates of "High-Quality" Teachers. In 2015, the state provided $44 million for recruitment and retention bonuses of ...
The purpose of the study is to explore an international development assistance project in the education sector in Ethiopia, with an explicit focus on inclusive education for students with disabilities. In particular, the author explores...
This paper reports on the results of a study on the information and information sources that parents use when choosing a school under the John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program. Surveys were sent to parents of...
Hiring private tutors is causing a financial burden on parents, as they are made to pay high tutoring fees in Nigeria. Yet, Nigerian parents continue to invest heavily in financially burdensome private tutoring amid high poverty levels....
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