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Kenyetta A. Kendrick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
College and career readiness (CCR) has become a priority in national education policy, leading to changes to CCR standards, practices, and measurements. In response to the COVID pandemic, school closings altered student engagement in career and technical education (CTE) courses. CTE teachers played a crucial role in providing CCR support to…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Vocational Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Webster, Dustin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Education is often portrayed as the means to provide economically disadvantaged students with opportunities for mobility in order to reduce the wealth and income gap. Achieving this goal is difficult and involves a number of costs and tradeoffs for poor students--costs and tradeoffs which are deemed acceptable only if mobility is successfully…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Outcomes of Education, Costs, Economically Disadvantaged
Thomas, Joshlyn D. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The representation of Black women in senior leadership positions within higher education hovers at a dismal 5.8% (Wilder et al., 2013). Though Black women's degree attainment has increased substantially in comparison to other racial groups (NCES, n.d.), they are not recruited and supported in these roles (Jackson & Harris, 2007), especially in…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, African Americans, College Administration, Gender Bias
Johnson, Kristy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Rural elementary teachers faced challenges to professional development which differed from their urban or suburban peers. With the increasing popularity of social media at the time of this study, rural elementary teachers had the opportunity to use social media to find and engage in professional development which might otherwise be unavailable to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Social Media, Faculty Development
Erica J. Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to describe special education teachers' use of technology pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic, how the technology and the COVID-19 pandemic factored in student performance, and differences in student performance pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions of the problem, purpose, research questions,…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Special Education, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19
Bo Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
From 2010 to 2020, a total of 177,454 doctorates were awarded to international students in the United States (U.S.). In 2020, there were 18,482 international doctorate recipients in the U.S., and approximately 73% of them revealed their intention to stay in the country after graduation (National Science Foundation, 2021). Many international…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Foreign Students, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
Ghada S. Swadek – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The goal of this study was to investigate the effects (as articulated by Stephen Ball) of global and national inclusive education policies on the education of children with disabilities. The study focused on global and national policy influences and stakeholder engagements (perceptions, understanding, interpretations, and translations) of these…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Educational Experience, Foreign Countries
Billie June Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of at-risk college students who become honors students. There is much quantitative research on the factors that influence or predict the path of at-risk students becoming honors students. What is less well established in literature is what personal transformation occurs in the lives of students…
Descriptors: High Achievement, At Risk Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Experience
Nemeth, Anne-Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigated teachers' perception and use of culturally relevant teaching by exploring how teachers define and incorporate it into their classrooms. Many researchers in education have explored the benefits of using culturally relevant teaching within the classroom to enhance student learning. Researchers have found that the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Opportunities, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Morehead, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The primary purpose of this research study was to examine and understand how women leaders thrive, survive, and negotiate their leadership role at higher education institutions in New Mexico when female leadership has not been the historical norm. By exploring this question, the aim was to gain a deeper understanding of the culture of leadership…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Leadership Role, College Administration
Vivian A. Amu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The real-world problem concerning the question of leadership preparedness of international students attending private, Jesuit Catholic universities was studied using a constructivist narrative inquiry method. From the rich stories of five participants, six experiential themes emerged from the data analysis done by hand coding. The themes were…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Catholic Schools, Religious Colleges, Private Colleges
Golanda Vanessa Hamlin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in the study was the challenges that made it difficult for African American female administrators to move into educational leadership positions. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to explore how African American female school administrators described the challenges they faced in their journey to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers
Linlin Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigates the lived experiences of Chinese international students during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to delve into how these individuals articulate their experiences during the pandemic, with a particular focus on how their geographical location influenced their experiences. To achieve…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Foreign Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Mary A. Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adjunct faculty are important to academe and have been part of community colleges since the early 20th century, providing community colleges flexibility with student enrollment by filling instruction needs while keeping salaries manageable. Rural community college adjunct faculty bring industry expertise and many other positives to their work.…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Inquiry, Sense of Community, Adjunct Faculty
Christopher Diehl Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
K-12 educational outcomes are a powerful reflection of social opportunity, both by meaningfully predicting adult wellbeing across measures like health and income, and by encapsulating the breadth of factors that contribute to a child's preparedness, ability, and opportunity to learn and persist in school. In this light, the persistent deficits in…
Descriptors: Economics, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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