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What Every Policy Maker, School Leader, Parent, and Community Member Needs to Know about the Social, Economic, and Human Capital Costs of Closing a Rural School: A Comprehensive Multi-Faceted Investigation
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Buzzard, Ruth Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this comprehensive multi-faceted research investigation was to collect evidence from various sources related to the impact of school building closings on rural communities. The researcher employed quantitative, qualitative, and US Census data analysis to collect information and comprehensively evaluate the impact of school closings…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Closing, Social Capital, Human Capital
Alternative-Specific and Case-Specific Factors Involved in the Decisions of Islamic School Teachers Affecting Teacher Retention: A Discrete Choice Experiment
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Abd-El-Hafez, Alaa Karem – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Teacher retention is a concern in all educational sectors in America. It is of special importance to Islamic schools, which tend to lack the resources necessary in recruiting and training new teachers. This dissertation addressed this problem in full-time Islamic schools in New York State by conducting a discrete choice experiment, which reflects…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Work Environment, Social Status
Language Policies' Impact on Immigrant Students' Lived Experiences in New York City Public Schools
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Gica, Diosdado Galan, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Language policies' impact is evident in how most immigrant children become English monolinguals by the third generation. Yet a large percentage continues to underperform in public schools. Formative and summative evaluations draw from a narrow methodology, thus this study strived to tell the stories of immigrant students' lived experiences in New…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Experience, Public Schools, Urban Schools