Browsing by Subject "education policy"
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(2018-06-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe prevailing public discourse surrounding the effects of teacher tenure in public education is starkly divided. In recent years, a number of states have enacted tenure reforms, thereby potentially transforming the landscape ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe recent adoption of career and college ready standards also coincides with the adoption of new statewide accountability assessments aligned to these standards. While the development of assessments aligned to these ...
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(2014-03-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe purpose of this dissertation is to examine the shifting trends in the provision and funding of non-government schools in developing countries over the past 20 years, with an emphasis on the rise of low-cost private ...
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(2019-05-31)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEducation scholars have long recognized the importance of high-quality leadership for the success of schools. However, our understanding of the labor market for principals remains quite shallow. In particular, there is a ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesMany education policies are broadly implemented to have a positive impact on equity of opportunity for all students. However well-intentioned, these policies sometimes lead to unintended consequences. This dissertation ...
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Exploring school sequences as a new unit of analysis for intradistrict school finance equity studies (2006-12-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation used student and school-level data to create school assignment sequences at the student level; evaluated the distribution of resources across those sequences; and compared findings from equity analysis ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesResearch shows that access to high-quality early childhood education and care can reduce the achievement gap at kindergarten entry. However, the evidence on medium- and long-term outcomes from early childhood interventions ...
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(2018-06-18)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesIn 2013 the Tennessee Board of Education adopted a policy introducing discontinuities in the number of observations assigned to teachers based on their prior level of effectiveness (LOE), a continuous composite measure of ...
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(2019-04-12)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesLobbyists attempt to influence legislation on behalf of their clients. While there is no shortage of research on lobbying and interest groups in political science, few education researchers have examined how lobbyists ...
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(2012-04-10)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesRace to the Top is a new policy lever in the struggle for authority in educational governance among various levels of government, and it provides an opportunity to examine the state-level policymaking context. Tennessee ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe gaps in achievement and attainment between races and classes have long vexed our educational system, with the former remaining stubbornly stable and the latter growing in recent decades. Researchers consistently conclude ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThe cradle-to-prison nexus (CTPN) refers to students from Educationally Indebted Communities (e.g., students of color that are also living below the poverty line), or EICs, are disciplined more frequently and severely than ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThe cradle-to-prison nexus (CTPN) refers to students from Educationally Indebted Communities (e.g., students of color that are also living below the poverty line), or EICs, are disciplined more frequently and severely than ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThe cradle-to-prison nexus (CTPN) refers to students from Educationally Indebted Communities (e.g., students of color that are also living below the poverty line), or EICs, are disciplined more frequently and severely than ...
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(2009-07-27)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesFrom as early at the 1840s, the United States federal government has been directly involved in education research and development. With the passage of No Child Left Behind (2001) and the Education Sciences Reform Act ...
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(2008-07-14)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation explores a framework for effective school leadership that is connected with research, standards and current practices in the United States, and investigates its cross-cultural generalizability both ...
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(2017-08-14)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesCharter school policy is driven by a combination of empirical concerns about their effectiveness as well as ideological motivations. However, there has thus far been a relative lack of evidence on the latter, making it ...
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(2020-03-03)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesEducational transfer by way of isomorphism is the inspiration for this dissertation. In the course of three papers, I study three aspects of the policy making process: adoption, adaptation, and evaluation. In the first ...
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(2017-06-26)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesOver the past number of years, postsecondary students have increasingly enrolled in online courses. In this dissertation, I use human capital theory and Bayesian statistical analyses to investigate how students choose these ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesClassroom observations are the most widely used K-12 teacher evaluation measure in the United States. However, far less is known about the properties of observation scores relative to student test score-based measures such ...