ABSTRACTThere has been a long-standing history of segregation and exclusion of students with disabilities from receiving a quality education in public school districts throughout the country. In response to the growing outcry for equal opportunities for students with and without…
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This study examines teachers’ views of meritocracy and how their conceptions and views influence their everyday practices in schools with regard to producing, recognizing, and awarding individual merit in China’s key schools. This study uses a qualitative methodology, especially…
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of students, teachers and their allies have engaged in civic activism since the spring of 2018. In 2018, following the Parkland shooting, students across the country protested against gun violence and the ways it has impacted their experie…
This dissertation presents a qualitative content analysis of the U.S. District Court-District of Arizona Transcripts of Proceedings of Bench Trial (González et al. v. Douglas et al., 2017), the constitutional challenge to Arizona’s anti-Mexican American Studies law A.R.S. §15-11…
This dissertation disaggregates the “Hispanic” category to examine the various factors shaping the educational trajectories of students who encompass this large ethnic group. This project consists of three studies, each presenting the perspectives of principal stakeholders: fami…
Despite the Constitution allowing for the removal of religious conceptions from public schools, the perspectives of most United States middle school-age kids show that the cultural shift towards scientific naturalism as the de facto worldview has impacted worship music in the Ch…
In this dissertation, I explain how the predominant concern among reformers and policymakers in education policy in the United States shifted from one focused on inequitable access in the 1960s to one focused on higher expectations of students and better standards in the 1980s a…
In this thesis, I perform a comparative case study on the status of freedom of education and related parental rights in the era of the rights of the child. The aim of this case study is to provide insight into whether freedom of education and the right of the child to an educati…
This study on Black teachers and quality utilizes primary source documentation to investigate teacher recruitment and hiring policies in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) between 1952 and 1964. Grounded in archival research methods and critical historical analysis, …
Racist laws and subsequent educational policies and practices have resulted in schools in the United States failing to teach Black students reading. Historically, a racial achievement gap in elementary reading has existed throughout the history of the United States and has persi…
The purpose of this qualitative multisite case study is to explore the history of school funding and policy in Montana K–12 schools with a focus on how the State legislature is or is not providing equality of educational opportunity. Because teachers are the most significant sch…
School leaders are commonly expected to engage in strategic planning to improve their schools, meet their objectives, and accomplish their missions. However, relatively little is known about how they practice strategic planning. This study investigated the strategic planning pra…
This research utilized Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory and Cummins’ (1996) coercive and collaborative relations of power framework to explore the experiences of five students who self-identify with multiple cultural identities and who have graduated from the public-school sy…
School segregation in the United States is at a crisis point. The educational landscape in Rochester, NY has become increasingly segregated along the lines of race, class, and geography in recent decades. This thesis investigates the geographies and infrastructures that laid the…
This thesis explores the nature of internationalization activities at two Christian higher education institutions comparatively—one in South Korea and the other in Canada. A qualitative study, it examines the question of the extent to which an institution’s internationalization …
The purpose of this study is to capture the history, atmosphere, and experience of HOPE (Housing Outreach Project Express). Charleston Catholic High School’s HOPE is a story of service and learning put into action. For 25 years, Charleston Catholic students, teachers, administra…
This ethnographic study, which spanned seven months, aims to produce a nuanced understanding of the experiences of Indian women students in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) programs at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and the Indian Institute of Technology…
This dissertation consists of studies within the topics of economic mobility and educational attainment. The main groups under study are immigrants and African Americans within the U.S. Each of the three chapters use a combination of historical linked Census records, administrat…
My dissertation examines global changes in several fundamental structural dimensions of national education systems that shape social stratification and the quality of a country's education: national high stakes examinations, tracking, and assessment tests. To analyze these chang…