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School violence is a problem that affects students, families, teachers, staff, and administration (Crews, 2019). Restorative justice is a proactive, alternative method to penal discipline (Payne & Welch, 2018). My study sought to...
Environmentally conscious science education is of great importance due to dramatic anthropogenic effects on the environment. The World Health Organization reports 25% of children deaths, ages five and under, are the direct result of...
Elite private institutions, renowned for their exceptional academic offerings and rigorous selection processes, attract top-tier students and faculty; however, exclusive private schooling has perpetuated social and economic disparities...
Problem of Practice: School principals have a powerful effect on student achievement, school culture, and teacher turnover. According to the National Association of Secondary School Principals (2020), the average career of a school...
Most proponents of flexible online learning, and critics alike, have little more than anecdotal evidence to support their claims about the benefits or drawbacks of flexibility (Houlden & Veletsianos, 2019; Veletsianos & Houlden, 2019)....
In higher education today, international students from various sociocultural backgrounds have contributed to the internationalization of many colleges and universities. The factors that help them succeed academically in a different...
Immigration is a rapidly-growing global phenomenon. Although many countries devote significant resources to investigate the outcomes of adult immigrants, both governments and researchers have given much less attention to the outcomes of...
The purposes of this exploratory survey research are: (1) to examine the degree to which best practices on language acquisition instructional strategies and resources are used across the ten schools in Monroe County School District (MCSD...
This study takes a look at the many effects having an incarcerated household member has on students during the school day. In order to gain a better understanding of these effects, twelve middle school teachers were interviewed about...
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in studying military-connected children (Aronson & Perkins, 2012; Chawla & Solinas-Suanders, 2011; DePedro et al., 2011). Despite being the subject of much research, there exists a...
The purpose of this study is to explore the educational experiences and social mobility status of a rural village cohort that started first grade at a rural village primary school in 1997 in central China. Formal education is often seen...
Embedded in the history of the arid Western U.S., water conflict seems out of place in the Southeast's oozing landscape of humidity, swamps, and Spanish moss (Manganiello, 2015). Yet throughout Georgia, Alabama, and Florida's shared...
Despite the growing number of international schools around the globe, little is done to support the highly mobile Third Culture Kid (TCK) populations in these schools. While experiencing exciting lives, TCKs have difficulty developing...
The purpose of the current study was to test the theory of action hypothesized for the Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS) based on results from a large-scale randomized field trial. Using a multilevel structural equation...
The primary goal of this dissertation is to theoretically propose an indicator that captures the effectiveness of Christian, both conservative Christian and Catholic, schooling on students' religious socialization in the academic domain...
This study followed eight Black teachers and highlighted their battles with interpersonal and institutional racism in China. Individual interviews were held with eight co-researchers and five high level administrators. Data was also...
The research questions addressed in this exploratory survey research were: 1) what is the degree of teachers' morale, and what perceptions do teachers have about their district and school leadership, 2) how does the degree of teachers'...
Working Dragon Mothers: Motherhood and Labor Market Participation of Women Faculty with Leadership Positions in an Adult Higher Education Institution in Liaoning Dalian in China
From the foundation of the People's Republic of China (in 1949) until now, Chinese women's social status has been improved and their identities have been shifted with the changes in the social system. However, in the new century, they...
Career and technical education (CTE) has been a contested area with mixed study results and conflicting theories. Adding to the controversy is the fact that various types of CTE programs are implemented in diverse ways, which creates...
Historically, girls' education has been problematic in Afghanistan, where girls' education was challenged or even banned by many groups of people and regimes. Recent years have seen significant improvement; starting with one million boys...
Over the past 10 years, there have been significant movements in the area of contemplative education. Of particular interest is how these contemplative education approaches can be leveraged to provide tools for supporting youth in...
This phenomenological study explored the experiences of skilled women immigrants who were currently or previously had been involved in improving their English proficiency. I interviewed eight skilled women from seven countries in an...
Don't Let the Door Hit Ya: An Examination of Teacher Perceptions Beliefs, and Practices That Contribute to Students' Missed Instruction at KIPP Baltimore
African American students have been historically targeted for exclusionary discipline practices and as a result have had severely impacted by the amount of missed instruction. Zero tolerance policies have curated the phenomenon known as...
In the spring of 1959, thousands of Tibetans fled China, crossing the border into Nepal. They were following the Dalai Lama into exile after years of living under an oppressive regime in Chinese-occupied Tibet. In the decades that...
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