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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"No Excuses"”.
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What I need from you is understanding: A critical race interview study on the withdrawal experiences of former no excuses charter school students
No Excuses charter schools have long been valorized as the embodiment of a high performing school as well as the archetype of the dangers of lack of accountability of charter schools. No Excuses discipline has been one of the more scrutinized areas of this model due to claims about some of the …
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Transitions: Starting the Second, Full Circle
… Degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. With no parallels and therefore no excuses insinuated, I will be open and dissect more of myself as the whole focus of the thesis in hopes of offering clarity to myself and other mature and disabled students seeking to become a better teacher and artist.
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… once upheld harmful punitive rules and policies known as “no excuses” did away with them, rebranding and adopting anti-racist policies and practices as a step to-ward repair. Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Ped-agogies in Black Education examines how Black …
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Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor
… adherence to this ethos signify an assertive, “no excuses,” agency-affirming commitment to self-determination, or does it signify a seductive but quixotic pipe dream that allays feelings of failure, stagnation, and a lack of exposure to broader social contexts? This dissertation examines the …
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School choice, school quality, and human capital : three essays
… of three essays covering topics in the economics of education. Two common threads connect these essays: first, a focus on the inputs and practices driving variation in effectiveness across educational programs; and second, an interest in the relationships between students' preferences, …