Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Leadership & Policy Studies"
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(2020-06-16)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe assistant principalship is often viewed as a stepping stone to the principalship, but this framing of the position has resulted in the potential contributions of assistant principals to be overlooked. The three chapters ...
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(2020-03-31)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesI plan to format my dissertation in the style of publishable piece that is focused on student outcomes of service-learning with a major emphasis on its effects on altering students’ negative stereotypes. I will draw from ...
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(2022-08-18)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThis dissertation examines a case of an international development initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the United States and implemented in North Macedonia. The specific ...
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(2020-10-05)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThis study provides a counternarrative to deficit-based studies on high school dropout by focusing on factors that help students be resilient and persist to graduation in a non-traditional high school despite adversity. ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesResearch has shown that districts with market power engage in higher bureaucratic spending and spend more per pupil than do districts in competitive markets. With the democratic engagement mandate in the Every Student ...
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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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(2020-05-28)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesSchool reform efforts aimed at turning around chronically low-performing schools have received substantial policy and research attention. One common turnaround intervention requires schools to replace teachers, under the ...
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(2020-06-29)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesHigh schools across the United States have rapidly adopted online course systems to provide instruction to their most marginalized students. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how students interact with and ...
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(2021-06-13)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThis dissertation features three studies that span several topics linked to graduate education: the predictors of graduate school enrollment, the job prospects for master’s recipients, and unionization within academia. In ...
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(2022-07-15)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesIn the past decade, many states and districts have restructured their principal evaluation policies to incorporate formal feedback structures, including observations and post-observation feedback. Research has yet to explore ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesGeographic college access is inequitable in the United States, yet few studies examine how limited college options constrain students’ college choices and influence attainment. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
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(2020-06-15)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesWhile federal education policy requires that states support their lowest performing schools, the research on how to effectively turn around these schools is limited. Drawing from 13 years of statewide administrative data ...
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(2021-03-30)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate and understand the impact neighborhood contexts may have on low-performing first-grade students’ mathematics achievement. The data for this study came from a ...
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(2021-01-13)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesBetween one fall and the next, nearly forty percent of students change schools: some due to the grade configuration (e.g., structural moves from middle to high school), others are voluntary over the summer between academic ...
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(2023-07-14)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe literature documents the importance of teachers for student outcomes as well as the challenges of supporting teacher development, recruitment, and retention. This dissertation examines policies and conditions that ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesStandards-based reform describes a triumvirate of education policies: standards, assessments, and school accountability. I begin with an examination of the Common Core State Standards (CC). I exploit variation in the timing ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesStudent-based budgeting (SBB), which combines weighted-student funding with site-based budgeting, has been adopted in several urban districts across the United States to help increase equity between and within schools as ...
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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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(2022-03-24)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesState investments in public elementary-secondary education (i.e., pre-kindergarten through grade 12) have steadily increased over the past sixty years. Each of the chapters in this dissertation examines a different aspect ...
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(2021-07-20)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesHigh school Career and Technical Education (CTE) has received an increase in attention from both policymakers and researchers in recent years. This dissertation examines three underexamined areas of interest to researchers ...