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The Choice for Public School: An Investigation into the Failure of Low-Income African-American Parents to Utilize School Vouchers in the Cleveland School District
(2009)
Cleveland, Ohio has one of the longest running voucher programs in the United States. The program began in 1995 by offering tuition scholarships and tuition assistance to students for $2,250. The program was implemented ...
Retrospection on a baccalaureate degree in mid-life: What does it mean in a woman's life?
(2002)
A national higher education public policy agenda enmeshed in economic issues threatens to diminish access and disregard the baccalaureate educational needs of women in midlife. The numbers of adult women attaining bachelor's ...
PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES REGARDING INCLUSION
(2009)
This study compared perceptions of parents of children with and without disabilities attending an inclusive preschool program. One hundred and forty-nine participants in four states completed the Likert survey. The survey ...
Evaluation of a Laboratory Preschool: Utilizing a Theory Approach Logic Model
(2009)
Utilization-focused, process evaluations of university-based laboratory preschools in their associated role with teacher preparation programs are rare in current literature. The purpose of such studies is for administrators ...
Designing Principal Internships
(2008)
My dissertation is based on the process I used to design a Principal Internship Program for aspiring school leaders. I used heuristic methodology to describe a principal internship from the perspective of intern and my ...
Popular participation in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an ameliorative policy treatment affecting public education.
(2005)
Popular Participation is a public policy characterized by decentralization and devolution of responsibility and resources for a wide range of public services, including public education, from the national to the municipal ...
Alterations to faculty compensation structures at midwest medical schools.
(2001)
Despite an almost equal number of positive and negative outcomes reported as a result of the plans' implementation, the majority of the faculty respondents were accepting of the revised plan, and reported its implementation ...
Evolution of a high-achieving school: Building community through learning, leading and practices.
(2004)
The achievement gap of ethnic and poor students has haunted educators, and some schools have narrowed the gap through building learning communities. The purpose of the study was to understand how changes occurred in a ...
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Motivation of African-American Males to Complete the Doctorate
(2008)
African-American men face substantial barriers to their educational development. Yet, despite the associated barriers to doctorate completion at Majority White Institutions (MWIs), some African-American men achieve the ...
Supervision of itinerant teachers: Perspectives from itinerant teachers and those who supervise them.
(2001)
In relation to the conditions in which traveling teachers worked, participants reported the conditions that most often got in the way of their ability to effectively do their jobs were difficulties with travel, adapting ...