The purpose of this study was to perform an equity analysis of the dual credit program at one central Texas community college, considering student demographic factors including gender, race/ethnicity, economic disadvantage, and school district type, to determine potential gaps i…
The thrust of this study is to appraise the agency and contribution of Zimbabwe’s pre-service teacher education programme to epistemic (in)justice given its strategic position in the country’s education system. By adopting the qualitative paradigm, the study found the critical i…
Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı Öğretmen Yetiştirme ve Geliştirme Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından, Öğretmen Strateji Belgesi’nde yer alan ve 2017’de güncellenen Öğretmenlik Mesleği Genel Yeterlikleri’nde öğretmenlerden birçok yeterliğe sahip olması hedeflenmiştir. Bu yeterliklerden biri de “Ö…
Administrators in many school districts across the United States have adopted uniform policies in a response to growing school violence. By 2014, nearly half of the United States public schools had implemented a uniform or a formal dress code policy. Recognizing a safe learning …
The national debates regarding immigration, specifically the discourses and rhetoric about DACA on University Facebook pages served as an impetus for this thesis. A discursive approach is used to rhetorically analyze and understand the intersectionality of rhetoric of immigratio…
This language policy study examines the English language planning and policy of Bangladesh, a South Asian country with a long history of British colonization. Roughly 95 to 99 per cent of Bangladeshis speak বাাংলা (bangla)/Bangla as their national language but their level of lit…
A major area of inquiry, which has persisted throughout the history of public education, is how to best prepare our students for both post-secondary education and future employment through college and career readiness (CCR) initiatives. Much of the foundational knowledge and ski…
In 2016, enrollment in a public school Indian education program in the western United States dropped by over 1,000 students. Changes in enrollment policy for Title VI Formula Grants in 2015, coupled with findings of a program review conducted by the Office of Indian Education, f…
Community is typically approached as either an obstacle or an asset in education. The history of Afghanistan includes periods of educational policies designed to limit community involvement and redefine social norms. More recently, with increased international involvement in edu…
The school-to-prison pipeline (StoPP) is a social construct that leads to many students of color being pushed out of their schools and communities and into prisons or other legal consequences. The StoPP exists in the larger context of the American mass-incarceration system, and …
The desegregation of public schools continues to be a controversial topic in the U.S., particularly after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) decision. It’s been over sixty years following Brown, yet U.S. schools have remained racially and socioeconomically…
Postsecondary attainment rates for Latinos in the United States have improved steadily over time, however Latinos continue to have disproportionately reduced opportunities in obtaining baccalaureate degrees in comparison to their White peers. These disparities are found at all l…
This research evaluates the effect of belonging to a migrant household on the likelihood of attending kindergarten and senior secondary school, as well as the impact of migration on household education expenditures in Indonesia. Both linear probability models and ordinary least …
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international human rights treaty, has been ratified by every State except the United States and Somalia. It contains enumerated rights, including five articles pertaining to children's participation rights such …
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of school-level factors (physical resources, teachers' and schools' characteristics) and system-level factors (delegation of financial authority to public primary schools through Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs)) on two education…
This study is an exploration of the English language learning experiences of four Malaysians who were students in the U.S. at the time of the research. They represent the three main ethnic groups in Malaysia, namely the Malays, Chinese, and Indians. The objectives of this study …
Florida has undergone a 27.8% increase of ELL PreK-12 public school students within the last twenty years (www.fldoe/aala). Of the total student population in Florida, 9.4% speak 230 different languages and dialects with the highest percentage in Hispanic speakers. This is follo…
This study investigated educational stratification in Nigeria to determine how socioeconomic status, gender, and regional differences influence achievement in education using the nationally representative 2010 Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS). These cross-sectional data are …
Noting that colonial policies worked against the integral development of Nigeria, post-colonial administrations employed different policy initiatives to redress the situation. This case study aimed to measure the effectiveness of secondary school civic education in this regard. …