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HOW LEADERSHIP INFLUENCES TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN RESPONSE TO EDUCATIONAL REFORMS: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2016-05-13)
In 2009 a rash overhaul of educational reform occurred in our nation’s educational system, specifically preempted by Race to the Top. Administrators and teachers have been in a flux of understanding the importance of these ...
Beyond Public Assistance: Factors Affecting Completion of Community College Students in the Career Transitions Program
(2014-12-12)
The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of students who successfully completed “Career Transitions,” a program to help adult learners obtain certification, degrees, and employment. The population for ...
A Focus On The Learning That Occurs Within A Formal School Administrator Mentoring Program
(2014-05-09)
The focus of this study was on examining the role of mentoring relationships established in formal mentoring programs in building strong leaders for schools, and investigated the types of learning that occur within a formal ...
Confronting Mass Incarceration as Cultural Miseducation: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
(2015-05-08)
When strong expectations for societal compliance to societal ills, including miseducation, result in mass incarceration of disenfranchised communities; suffering can occur. The more acerbic the incarceration; the greater ...
A Narrative Inquiry into an Army School Leadership Experience
(2016-05-13)
The focus of this study is to reconstruct meaning through an interpretation of change on who I am and what I am becoming, navigating through a pervasive space that encompasses temporal, personal/social, and place creating ...
AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN URBAN SCHOOLS
(2013)
The purpose of this exploratory/quantitative descriptive and correlational study was to examine the relationship between principal technology leadership and technology integration in urban schools. The technology activities ...
An Endless Tangle of Problems: An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Franklin Green
(2015-05)
This work is an intellectual biography of the philosopher Thomas Franklin Green. It follows his intellectual development beginning in his student years in higher education and concludes with an examination of his final ...
Paths to Success: Analyzing the Journeys of Four Women of Color
(2018-05-02)
This dissertation is a literary analysis as it applies to the writing of memoir. It is a study that focuses on the memoirs of four specific minority women of color who came of age during the historical time-period in this ...
(RE)THINKING SCHOOL VIOLENCE: TEACHERS AS VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
(2016-08-19)
Although school violence is not a new phenomenon, it is still an issue in American schools. With strong concern for all individuals in educational settings, scholars are exploring ways in which violent acts can be prevented. ...
Leadership Effectiveness During Implementation of Reader Intervention at Elementary Schools in Oklahoma
(2011)
The magnitude of students attending schools today that demonstrate reading difficulty in the earliest of years continues to grow throughout the United States. Compelling research indicates that children who get off to a ...