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Stevens, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to understand how principals who lead community schools in New York City make sense of their work and their lived experiences in advancing social justice for their students and school communities particularly during this COVID-19 pandemic. Community schools, by virtue of their design and…
Descriptors: Principals, Community Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Social Justice
Marfo, Lauren Akosua Brako – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Teachers of African descent encounter obstacles such as lack of representation, microaggressions, myths and alienation within their profession and have multifaceted experiences that hinder or advance their identity development. Fifteen teachers of African descent from New York City were interviewed. The conceptual framework used for this study…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Mentors, Racial Differences, Equal Education
Preeya Pandya Mbekeani – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that black and Hispanic students typically perform worse in college, as measured by their freshman grade point average (FGPA), than predicted based on college admissions test scores. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics when estimating differential prediction.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences