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The Impact of Cisheteronormative Policies and Practices on the Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Faculty in Higher Education: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
(2023-12-15)
Scholarly attention on LGBTQIA+ faculty has primarily centered challenges, such as microaggressions and harassment, that they face at the interpersonal level. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that LGBTQIA+ faculty’s ...
Does the National School Lunch Program foster healthy eating? a mixed method analysis of food selection and consumption in middle school
(2022-05-13)
American children exhibit the highest rates of obesity among industrialized nations. To promote healthy eating, policy makers have revised standards for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides free and ...
Does Faculty Student Mentoring Improve Program Performance and Mediate Stress for First-Year Dental Hygiene Students?
(2022-05-13)
Dental hygiene education requires students to connect classroom learning with patient care very early in the scholastic process. This challenge can be a considerable source of stress for first-year students who are ...
A Critical Examination of How U.S. Schools Structure Inequalities in Science Learning Opportunities Based on Intersectional Student Backgrounds
(2020-05-08)
For decades, U.S. education policy has focused on the persistent achievement gap based on race and class in public schools. Within this test-based accountability context, math and reading achievement have been prioritized, ...
Is there a relationship between sexual orientation and perceived school safety among teachers?
(2022)
A teacher’s perception of safety is a critical component of school safety. A substantial body of scholarship explores factors related to a teacher’s perception of school safety, underscoring individual, school, neighborhood, ...
The Role of Teacher Preparation and Efficacy in Teaching for Deeper Learning and Student Mathematical Understanding in Elementary School: A Comparative Study of the United States and Singapore
(2020-05)
Student achievement in mathematics in the United States is lagging when compared to other subjects and other countries. This is even more apparent when considering deeper learning in mathematics, being able to apply the ...
A Study of Teacher Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023-05)
Teaching has become an increasingly challenging profession with growing class sizes, dwindling resources, expanded administrative responsibilities, and a perceived lack of support. These factors have contributed to rising ...
Interwoven or unraveling? The significance of social capital in rural schools and communities
(2022-12)
Sociologists have long documented how social capital may activate resources that undergird collective efforts to achieve positive educational and community outcomes. However, many rural communities across the United States ...
Policy in Action: A Multidimensional Study of the Oklahoma's Promise Scholarship Program
(2023-12-15)
This dissertation offers a multidimensional examination of the Oklahoma’s Promise scholarship, an early commitment financial aid program aimed at improving college access for Oklahoma students. Oklahoma’s Promise, which ...
Sistas in Crisis: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry into the Lives of Black Women Student Affairs Practitioners within Historically White Institutions
(2020-04-23)
Black women practitioners who work at Historically White Institutions occupy institutional spaces that were not created to support how they exist and thrive as Black women. Through their intersectional identities, they ...