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THE IMPACT OF CAPITAL OUTLAY INEQUITIES ON SCHOOL DISTRICT COST SAVING MEASURES IN A CLIMATE OF BUDGET REDUCTIONS
(2019-05)
The purpose for conducting this study was to determine whether inequitable capital outlay capacity, as defined by district valuation, was associated statistically with the following cost-saving measures: implementation of ...
ATVDASTANVI UNUNINOHETLVNVHI ANISGEYA LISTENING TO THEIR STORIES: EXAMINING HOW NATIVE MEN ENGAGE THE TRICKSTERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
(2019-05-10)
Between 2015 and 2016, only 40% of the total population of Native students enrolled in degree granting public post-secondary institutions identified as being male. However, since 1977 we have seen a steady decline in the ...
Holding Back English Learners: The Impact of Early Elementary Grade Retention on Language Development
(2019-05-10)
An abundance of scholarly work indicates that the practice of requiring a student to repeat a grade likely has significant academic, social and long-term effects on students. Grade retention, prevalent in elementary schools ...
AN EXAMINATION OF READING OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN IN THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL DISTRICT EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM
(2019-03-07)
The purpose of this study was to determine if the Southern District’s pre-kindergarten achieved the desired reading achievement outcomes. The specific focus was on the reading development of all students attending ...
EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE CANCER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX PINK WAR MACHINE: THEORIZING GENDER INSUBORDINATION FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF BREAST AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
(2019-04-24)
Premised upon John Dewey’s contention that dualist notions of minds isolated and elevated from bodies are an “evil” perpetuated in education (1916), this study applies Jane Roland Martin’s theories of education as encounter ...
THE IMPACT OF THE FOUR-DAY SCHOOL WEEK, DISTRICT FINANCIAL DECISIONS, AND CHARACTERISTICS ON TEACHER RETENTION
(2019-05)
This study is a non-experimental quantitative design exploring teacher retention in Oklahoma by looking at variables including district level decisions and characteristics. The population in the study included 521 public ...
Undergradaute Learning from Amateur Musicking: Rethinking the Music Academy's Deep-Gendered Hidden Curriculum through Narrative Inquiry
(2019-05-06)
U.S. higher education supports a deep-gendered view of art (Korsmeyer, 2004) perpetuated through the music academy’s cultivation of the individual artist for professional, competitive Western classical musicianship (Campbell, ...
Influence of Character Education on Student Character Growth: A Program Evaluation
(2019)
The purpose of this program evaluation was to analyze one Southwest Oklahoma school’s character education program and its effect on school climate, student and teacher relationships, and student growth in character. This ...
CURRICULUM OF THE MIND: A BLACKCRIT, NARRATIVE INQUIRY, HIP-HOP ALBUM ON ANTI-BLACKNESS & FREEDOM FOR BLACK MALE COLLEGIANS AT HISTORICALLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS
(2019)
Curriculum of the Mind is a Hip-Hop album that explores how Black male collegians at historically white institutions (HWIs) theorize and disrupt anti-Blackness in an effort to take flight or become free. Few previous studies ...
Examining the Relationship between Cynicism and Instructional Change
(2019-05)
Instructional practices today remain heavily centered and oriented around the teacher despite decades of educational reform efforts. Curriculum has changed, technology usage has increased, and standards have evolved; ...