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Student voice may seem like a new concept; however, it has a long history of being engrained in public schools in the United States. The trend towards incorporating and expanding student voice opportunities in high school is based on the tenets of democracy. Educators seek to pr…

In this three-article dissertation I use qualitative methods to trace the perceptions, experiences, and practices of 11 high school seniors in a predominantly white, social justice-oriented English class. I specifically center how students understand and experience literacy and …

Secondary schools in England manage the organisation of access arrangements (reasonable adjustments for those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities) for a significant proportion of General Certificate of Education (GCSE) candidates with little evidence of whether the re…

A neo-culture of extra-curricular coaching prior to sitting the terminal exam was once the privileged domain of public education systems in the Eastern world, but this is no longer the case. This multi-phase study based on a grounded theory approach considered a diversity of phy…