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Madrigal-Gonzalez, Lizely – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The onus of this dissertation was to evaluate the educational conditions of Mexican American students forty years after the "Mexican American Education Study" published a six-volume study detailing the findings of the "Mexican American Education Study" (1970-1974). The "MAES" study focused on five southwest states…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Mexican Americans, Educational Quality, Standardized Tests
Caldwell, Heather Kleinpeter – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is a historical biography on the life, suffrage and educational contributions of Mary Carroll Craig Bradford, a wife, mother, suffragist, teacher and educational administrator in the state of Colorado. The purpose of this dissertation was to find out exactly what Bradford's contributions were to her state. The initial observation…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Activism, Civil Rights
Thompson, Jennifer Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Colorado Women's College (CWC), a private, Baptist college for women in Denver, Colorado, first welcomed students to its campus in 1909, making it one of only a handful of women's colleges in the American West, where coeducation predominated. This dissertation describes and interprets the curriculum offered at CWC in the period from 1909 to 1967.…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Oral History, Two Year Colleges, Females