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Models of College Persistence Intentions
(2010)
While withdrawal from higher education may be the result of many reasons both within and beyond the control of the student or the institution, the intent of not returning to higher education indicates the acceptance of a ...
How Meteorologists Learn to Forecast the Weather: Social Dimensions of Complex Learning
(2011)
Weather and climate persistently affect individuals, corporations, and governments, sometimes in significant ways: a poor forecast leaves people unprepared to prevent damage or deal with disruptions to their daily routines, ...
The Educative Spirit-Home: A Thought Experiment to Educate Through Native American Women's Art
(2018-05-11)
Recognizing historical trauma experienced by indigenous peoples as contributing to social and educational problems for contemporary Native Americans (LaDuke 1999, 2002, 2005, Mihesuah 2003), specifically Native women ...
Exploratory Case Studies of the Role of the Community School Coordinator: Developing the School Social Network in Urban Elementary Schools
(2013)
This exploratory case study examines the role of the community school coordinator (CSC) in the community school model in two urban elementary schools. It seeks to understand how the role and responsibilities of a community ...
Using Capacity to Model School Effectiveness
(2014)
This study examines concepts and conditions that show promise for creating more accurate indicators of school performance than those currently in use and dominated by student outcome measures. Data were collected from ...
AN OUTCOME-BASED EVALUATION OF AN INNER-CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
(2014-05-09)
Racial and ethnic minorities are expected to increase in both number and percentage of the college-going population (Department of Commerce, 2009). Meanwhile the historic underrepresentation of low-income, African-American, ...
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
(2014-12-12)
This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ...
Transitioning from junior high to middle school: A case study of teachers' and administrators' perceptions from one suburban school district
(2010)
The purpose of this study was to analyze through a set of interpretive and pragmatic theoretical lenses the perceptions of the middle school teachers, principals, and administrators of one school district's transition from ...
A Historical Case Study of Dropout Recovery Programs in the State of Oklahoma
(2013)
The purpose of this historical case study was to gain an understanding of dropout recovery programs from an interpretive historical perspective. Dropout Recovery is an Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education ...
THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION ON PRINCIPAL TRUST
(2010)
Within-school climates and culture are predicated on organizational structures, distributions of power, and roles that are highly interactive. Hierarchical structures and uneven power distributions, primarily those of ...