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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Educational Disparities"”.
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
… perspective to analyze trends in racial and educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality. The project is organized around three themes. First, I emphasize that recent temporal changes in U.S. adult mortality risk are rooted in cohort forces. Unfortunately, much of the mortality literature …
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Black Students Matter: A Phenomenological Approach to Exploring Sense of Belonging Among Black Students Attending a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… has been fostered, particularly given the educational disparities and equity gaps in retention, persistence, and graduation rates. Furthermore, the focus on initiatives geared towards Latinx students may contribute to feelings of inadequacy among Black students, which is compounded by …
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Impact of School Leaders’ Actions on Teachers and Their Practices
… contribute to teacher attrition and educational disparities. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of school leaders' actions on teachers and their practices. The context of this inquiry includes two stakeholder groups: 582 school leaders and 1,054 teachers from all 50 …
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Educating a Diverse Student Population: A Principal in a Small Urban Setting
… communities promotes an environment conducive to educational success. As members of a school community, teachers play a vital role. Despite the finding that the burden of instructional leadership remains largely within the domain of the principalship, teachers need to be viewed as sufficiently …
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Disproportionality in School Disciplinary Practices: Findings from a Policy Surveillance
… efforts in place to identify, address and reduce disparities, promote equity and protect the civil rights of students. It looks at contributing factors, implications of educational disparities and the role that policy plays in promoting equity. Chapter two describes the first part of the study, …
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Possible Selves of Diverse Adolescents: Implications for Higher Education and Mental Health
<p>There are striking disparities in the academic achievement of American youth, with Latino and Black adolescents attaining higher education at vastly lower rates than White adolescents. Though numerous reasons exist for these educational disparities this study examines possible selves as they may …
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Tracking Segregation: Experiences of African American High School Students in Low- and High -Track Math and English Classes
… connection of tracking to African American educational disenfranchisement and (2) allowing space for students themselves as legitimate policy informants to speak back to tracking policy effects on individual students, this project fills a substantial knowledge gap. It employs a case study …
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Parental Involvement, Students' Self-Engagement, and Academic Achievement: A Structural Equation Model
… a thorough understanding of cultural nuances and educational intricacies specific to the Chinese context. Its aim was not only to decipher the underlying constructs of parental involvement and student self-engagement but also to investigate how these factors impacted academic achievement among …
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Enabling mathematical minds: how social class, ethnicity, and gender influence mathematics learning in New Zealand secondary schools
The wide and enduring educational disparities between European and Asian heritage New Zealanders on the one hand, and indigenous Māori and Pacific Islanders on the other, have been a national education policy priority for some time. Such is the degree of focus on ethnic inequalities that very …
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African American Undergraduate Students' Experiences in Residential Learning Communities at a Predominantly White Institution
… initiatives to address these concerns, yet educational disparities persist. Institutions of higher learning also address ways to enhance the educational development of undergraduate students. One such initiative involves a paradigm shift to extend the curriculum into residential learning …
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Exploring the Interpretation and Implementation of Migrant Programs: A Migrant Director’s Perspective
… backdrop of American agriculture, a significant educational challenge persists: the academic attainment of migrant children. Each year, an estimated 850,000 young migrants accompany their families, constituting a crucial workforce responsible for 75% of our nation's agricultural output. Despite …
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Navigating the Digital Realm: Perceptions and Challenges of High School Educators in Fostering Digital Citizenship
… students’ safety and learning, and reduce educational disparities. Addressing this gap in understanding is crucial to the ongoing development of digital citizenship education and ensuring that students are adequately prepared to navigate the digital world responsibly. In this dissertation, …
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Equity in Education: Transforming Urban Middle Schools for Black Students Success
… peers. While the achievement gap reflects the educational disparities among student groups, it is closely linked to an opportunity gap which refers to unequal access to economic and social resources creating barriers to academic success. The concern for federal and state lawmakers should be …
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Essays on Education Markets
This dissertation investigates educational disparities in the matching markets of high school choice and college admissions. The first chapter, joint with Ph.D. students Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng, studies the spatial inequality issue in high school choice within the context of the centralized …
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A case study exploring college access for low-income, first-generation urban African American students and the career success of Mr. Silas Purnell, ‘the Michael Jordan of TRiO’
… elusive to some. For more than a half-century, educational disparities have existed and persisted. No other population within the United States public education system has been as affected and positioned for failure than African Americans (Blacks) and male students, in particular. Black students …
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Social and community support among nonmetropolitan gender and sexual minority youth: a mixed methods study
… physical and mental health problems, and educational disparities compared to heterosexual and cisgender youth. Rural GSM youth are at equal or greater risk for these negative outcomes than urban GSM youth. In spite of their risks, positive youth development (PYD) theory contends that all …
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Exploring leadership styles and their influence on academic disparities: a comparative study in high and underperforming public secondary schools Lusaka district, Zambia.
… by the government of Zambia to address educational disparities, these gaps continue to persist, highlighting the need for a deeper understanding of the leadership factors at play. Moreover, a significant research gap remains in exploring the mechanisms through which leadership practices …
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Exploring leadership styles and their influence on academic disparities: a comparative study in high and underperforming public secondary schools Lusaka district, Zambia.
… by the government of Zambia to address educational disparities, these gaps continue to persist, highlighting the need for a deeper understanding of the leadership factors at play. Moreover, a significant research gap remains in exploring the mechanisms through which leadership practices …
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Teaching-learning of Sinhala literacy skills in Deaf primary schools in Sri Lanka - A mixed methods inquiry
… a ripple effect with Deaf students poor educational performance extending to long term restrictions in societal participation. Identifying the underlying limitations and enablers, often wrapped in contextual complexities, has been viewed as imperative in the quest to minimize or eliminate …
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Assessment, equity and language of learning : key issues for higher education selection in South Africa
… Certificate results are not, for the majority of educationally disadvantaged candidates, reliable predictors of academic success in Higher Education. Despite this limitation, however, the Senior Certificate examination plays a vital role in the education system. The aims of the study are thus to …
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