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Grimaldi, James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The research on children whose parents are separated or divorced presents much debate regarding the role of risk factors and the influence of interventions to mitigate negative outcomes. Reviews of research on divorce have consistently supported findings that children of divorce have a higher incidence of mental health, substance abuse, academic,…
Descriptors: Divorce, Parent Education, Program Effectiveness, Parent Attitudes
Finn, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this research was to examine the accomplishments and obstacles of central office administrators who have followed traditional educational career paths with those who have followed non-traditional paths. The demographic markers, educational backgrounds, administrative responsibilities and tasks, and significant positive and negative…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Superintendents, Central Office Administrators, Career Development
Wilkowski, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This researcher evaluated the impact of an emergent literacy intervention program implemented in a suburban New York school district. The researcher examined archival data collected by the district during the 2010-2011 school year. The sample consisted of 171 general education kindergarten students from two of five elementary schools in this…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Early Intervention, Phonemic Awareness, Emergent Literacy
Ng, Hui Leng – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Standardized-test scores are increasingly important indicators of school success. But how robust are school-performance ratings when they are based on measures derived from these scores? In my thesis, using data from Houston Independent School District (HISD) and New York State (NYS), I examined the robustness of school-performance ratings across…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Robustness (Statistics), Academic Achievement
Ahmed, Abdelmonem Saad Abdelhamid – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As English language learner (ELL) students are at risk of dropping out of higher education, colleges and universities must make greater efforts to retain them. This study assessed the training quality of English as a second language (ESL) instructors in higher educational institutions in New York City to help ELL students in academics, language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, College Faculty
Moll, Kirk A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this research is to study the learning experiences of participants in the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) of Union Theological Seminary in New York. SIM provided the seminarians with an intense learning environment in which they crossed borders including race, gender, class, and culture. For many of these participants, this…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Oral History, African American Community, Race