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Long, Rebecca-Eli M.; Stabler, Albert – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2022
Disabled university students, as well as disabled faculty, staff, and other community members, face an array of challenges in conducting their studies and in navigating their daily lives. The authors relay their experiences as disabled members of a university community, and recount the work they did to gather information about the experiences of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disabilities, College Faculty, College Students
Tiffany Hinton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons are largely invisible in historically Black post-secondary education research and discourse. To this end, LGBTQ students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are often ignored and their voices are silenced, thus impacting their feelings of marginality and…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Black Colleges, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Bolick, Cheryl Mason; Williams, Whitney Allred – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2021
The article focuses on making and makerspaces in the elementary classroom. The authors argue that making in the elementary classroom offers a creative opportunity to capitalize on students' natural sense of wondering and curiosity. They provide a brief background on making and makerspaces and share rich classroom examples of making. Finally, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Shared Resources and Services, Social Studies, Creativity
M. Alex Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examines North Carolina's past educational politics from the desegregation era as a means to better contextualize its modern-day school pushout crisis. It marks desegregation as the bedrock for racialized school pushout as white resistance to integration proved difficult and at times dangerous for Black students as they entered formerly…
Descriptors: Educational History, African American Students, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
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Sandra L. Dika; Yi Wang; Mark M. D'Amico; Carmen Serrata; E. Michael Bohlig – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The authors of this study utilized data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement to conduct a critical examination of perceptions of institutional support among transfer-seeking community college students in North Carolina. We adopted an intersectional quantitative approach by centering racial and ethnic identity, and examining the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Student College Relationship, College Environment
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2022
International comparative education studies contribute to improvements in education systems by highlighting strengths and identifying challenges found in the different cultural contexts of different countries. Comparative early childhood education (ECE) studies provide new ideas and insights into how local and national systems can be improved.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Michelle Dawn Maxfield – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Principal turnover is a national problem with costly side effects. There is a growing interest in this problem of practice. Although more studies are emerging, there is limited qualitative research into understanding why principals are leaving their positions. This is a basic qualitative study examining the experiences of three former North…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Teachers, Career Change
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Carbonaro, William; Lauen, Douglas L.; Levy, Brian L. – Sociology of Education, 2023
Although there is an abundance of research on the association of school poverty (or socioeconomic status) and test score level, there is very little rigorous longitudinal evidence on the cumulative effects of exposure to differing school contexts. Drawing from methods used first in epidemiology and then in neighborhood effects research, we use…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools, Grade 8, Mathematics Tests
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Kelli Anne Talley; Andrew J. Bobilya; Paul Stonehouse – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2023
This study examined the impacts of long-term exposure of outdoor adventure programming (OAP) for adolescent girls. This qualitative study shares the stories of the 8th grade students at the French Broad River Academy for girls, which is a private middle school that integrates OAP into its curricula located in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Gender Differences, Adventure Education
Anikko Gorham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nationally, special education teacher turnover is a significant issue for school districts. The problem addressed in this study was the high special education teacher turnover rate in one local school district in North Carolina. Guided by Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this basic qualitative study explored previous special education teachers'…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Mobility, Teaching Conditions
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Bonner-Reed, Jevelyn – Learning Professional, 2021
North Carolina's Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools believe that employing a diverse staff is key to reaching all five of the district's overarching goals: student achievement, equity and access, community engagement, human resources development, and climate and safety. Recruiting, retaining, and supporting educators of color is an important…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Labor Force Development, Educational Environment, Minority Group Teachers
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Lee, Shanique J.; York, Portia Marie; Williams, John A., III; Richardson, Sonyia C.; Davis, Alicia W.; Williams, Brian Keith; Lewis, Chance W. – Urban Education, 2023
Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical…
Descriptors: Teachers, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Rural Urban Differences
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Ile, Omoyemeh J.; Typhina, Eli; Brannum, Katie; Parajuli, Rajan; Bardon, Robert E.; King, John S. – Journal of Extension, 2023
This study explores the human dimensions of the broad-based adoption of Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRWCs) among farmers in North Carolina. We used an actor diagramming and tracing approach to explore factors influencing farmers' adoption of SRWCs. Results suggest four factors strongly influence the adoption process: (1) market availability; (2)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Social Networks, Financial Support
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Frazee, James; Guarcello, Maureen; Hauze, Sean; Woodbury, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2022
Development of Open Educational eXtended Reality (OEXR) resources was driven by a need to provide anatomy models for faculty and students for whom access to formaldehyde-preserved specimens was challenging or impossible due to medical conditions, pregnancy, and other factors that limited access to the lab and the lessons. The OEXR virtual assets…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Computer Simulation, Distance Education, Program Implementation
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Yaya-Bryson, Dilara; Scott-Little, Catherine; Akman, Berrin; Cassidy, Deborah J. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This study examined the quality of early childhood education programs in two different quality rating and improvement systems, one in Turkey and the other in the state of North Carolina in the USA. The early childhood environment rating scale-revised edition" was used to evaluate the quality of early childhood classrooms, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
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