The following research and dissertation are designed to extend the understanding of challenges faced by voucher students entering private schools. Voucher students historically face the challenges of poverty and living in single-parent homes with little to no parental support. W…
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This study considered the importance of culturally centered educational practices and how teachers can be prepared to transmit African culture when working with African children. In an attempt to learn from an environment where the needs of African children have been prioritized…
Since 1995, the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) has been a leading youth-led urban education organizing group. PSU has operated at several scales—including the school, district, state, and national levels—as well as in ideological dimensions. Thus, PSU is an appropriate unit of…
One solution to chronic teacher shortages has been to hire alternatively certified teachers who arrive in the classroom lacking critical trainings in methodology and pre-service student teaching. The problem addressed was the high rate of attrition for alternatively trained teac…
The 1960’s educational desegregation movement sought to remedy racial inequities within school districts, with mandatory school busing as a means to reduce racial segregation and enhance educational equality throughout the U.S. More recently, the 2002 No Children Left Behind Act…
Education in Mozambique is amongst the lowest in Africa with one recent report ranking it 52nd out of 54 countries. Continuing professional development (CPD) for existing teachers is one way to improve teacher efficacy but funding remains inadequate. Partnerships between Higher …
Educational systems reinforce hegemonic ideas, so students can be citizens that adapt to the socio-economic system of the dominant classes (Apple, 200), and this is the case of Mexico and the United States. With the objective of promoting effective intercultural understanding, t…
Politically active conservative Christians have been mobilizing to prohibit the inclusion and affirmation of gender and sexual diversity (GSD) in K-12 schools since the 1970s. Communities with a high concentration of conservative Christians, or religiously conservative communiti…
Wisconsin school districts are increasingly reliant on revenue garnered via referendums. The frequency, passage rates, and dollar amounts of school referendums in Wisconsin have all reached levels that are unprecedented in Wisconsin school finance history, even in White, working…
Educational attainment in the U.S. continues to be marred by racial and socioeconomic (SES) disparities. Despite decades of research on the predictors of attainment and the decreases in dropout rates, minority-race and low-income youth continue to dropout at higher rates than th…
This qualitative research study examined the supports children with a history of foster care need to be successful in post-secondary education. The study asked ten foster care alumni students receiving services from programs in Virginia, Florida, and Washington State about the l…
This paper focuses on the use of the term “moderate” “moderacy” as a term applied to categorize some Chinese intellectuals and categorize their political positions throughout the 1920’s and 30’s. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the label of “moderate” （温和 or 温和派）b…
Seattle was the first U.S. city to authorize a mandatory desegregation plan without a court order. Yet, it was also the site almost two decades letter of the U.S. Supreme Court case Parents Involved in Community Schools, which deemed Seattle’s remaining race-conscious desegregat…
The Common Core content standards and standards for mathematical practice (SMP) have introduced an unprecedented opportunity in U.S. history to consider the implications of a national scale standards reform effort that provides teachers the individualistic opportunity to select …
While the Philippines’ higher education sector has a long history distinguished by early adoption of quality assurance practices, the Philippines Development Plan 2017-2022 concluded that Philippine higher education institutions are ill-positioned to compete in the global higher…
The academic gap for Latinx students continues to widen despite legal attempts to desegregate schools for educational equity. The case, Soria v. Oxnard School District Board of Trustees (1971), was filed on behalf of the Mexican children of Oxnard, California. The suit sought to…
In recent years, there have been calls for a fundamental reconsideration of literacy policy and practice, and a broadening of perspectives on literacy achievement and assessment (Avineri et al., 2015; Calfee, 2014; Y. Goodman, 2014; Moss, Pullin, Gee & Haertel, 2005; Pearson, Va…
This research study embraced the call-to-action of bridging the compassion gap (C. Suárez-Orozco, 2019) and a qualitative life history research approach to explore the (pre-, during-, and post-) migratory experiences of ten former newcomer high school students. Through in-depth …
As Illinois has had a long history of funding challenges marred by inequities and inadequacies, the Evidence Based Funding Model went into effect in 2017. The model had four tiers with Tier I being the least equitably and adequately funded. This qualitative survey study explored…