Despite extensive research documenting the negative outcomes of teaching students in segregated settings, research and national statistics have continued to demonstrate the persistent segregated placement rates for students with disabilities who require extensive support needs (…
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Students from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds often have extenuating circumstances that impede their academic achievement. While many of the factors affecting these students have been concentrated in urban cities, in recent decades, the nation's suburbs have become home to m…
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to ascertain how educational leaders create successful learning spaces for English learners (ELs) based on a principal and teachers’ perceptions about transformative leadership at their campus. The campus research site, a public…
This dissertation employs the use of primary research, oral history, and narrative and auto-ethnography of my own experiences as a hybrid educator across both systems, and the extant gaps in educational technology, or ed tech, implementation across two of the largest urban publi…
Arizona’s K-12 education system touts expansive choice options for its families using a statewide open enrollment policy, numerous charter school options, and state-sponsored private school funding. Meanwhile, Arizona continues to rank low in public education when compared to ot…
School choice is a contentious issue in the United States. Based on a free market system where competition drives performance, supporters believe that underperforming schools should be forced to close if they are unable to keep up with the higher performing districts. However, s…
The purpose of this case study is to understand higher education administrators’ perceptions of New York State’s tuition-free initiative, the Excelsior Scholarship. A comprehensive literature review offers insights into a select history of higher education policy, as well as the…
This dissertation systematically explores the origins and evolution of the charter school movement in the United States from 1985 to 2015. I begin by analyzing the role of governors in K-12 education policymaking and find that while governors have generally placed greater emphas…
The international community is currently witnessing the highest influx of forced migration, displaced people, and refugees compared to any other time in history. More than 230 million people worldwide have fled their homes, seeking refuge elsewhere due to war and political, econ…
This dissertation is about the national and international politics of education policy supported Mexico’s Ministry of Public Education (SEP) during the Cold War. Education was an avenue through which the country capitalized on its revolution and presented itself as a regional le…
As student demographics in K-12 public schools continue to change and include more students of color, the education community is currently facing an opportunity to create equitable, sustainable systems that serve the needs of students from all backgrounds. The dire need for equi…
While every public school in the United States has to accommodate the bathroom needs of those who work and learn there, the bathroom spaces themselves are understudied in education research. Simultaneously, school bathrooms occupy a distinct place in the social consciousness. Ne…
Social policies that criminalize students can create a school environment that pushes immigrant students out of school and into immigration enforcement agencies' crosshairs. The school-to-prison pipeline is a well-documented phenomenon rooted in institutional racism and affects …
College students report high rates of mental health problems. Even as help-seeking behaviors have increased over the years and college mental health services report increased utilization, untreated mental disorders are prevalent among college students. The unmet mental health ne…
The purpose of this study is to discover how flattening the educational hierarchy by creating career ladders for teachers as teacher leaders can help elevate teachers to a professional status and elevate their professional self-perceptions. A historical look at education yields …
This dissertation sought to answer questions about the sensemaking processes of teacher leaders in a middle school that was part of a state-wide improvement process called the Ohio Improvement Process ( OIP). The context of the research was a historically under-performing school…
This research investigates how several school districts are working to transform school lunch programming by offering plant-based or plant-forward lunch options as one alternative to the current food regime. My research illuminates the environmental, nutritional, and economic be…
Obesity is a million-dollar health problem in the United States today. Over 1.5 billion Americans have been diagnosed with obesity. Over 43 million children have been diagnosed with childhood obesity. Being overweight or obese was not always a problem in the US, in the 17-1800's…
This study examines the social and cultural contexts, and factors of global and local sources, which influence teacher preparation and which may serve to impede or facilitate the training of public and private school English teachers at the “University of Banten,” in Serang, Ind…