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Direct linkVillalobos, Ricardo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This explanatory qualitative study investigated the perspectives of participant's and practitioner's perceived barriers to success and the necessary navigational expertise for overcoming the identified barriers. This multiple-case study research design examined three WIA out-of-school youth workforce development programs in Southern Nevada, with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Barriers, Out of School Youth, Labor Force Development
Tietjen, Jill Deanne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify effective leadership practices, processes, and strategies utilized by elementary school principals in low-achieving schools as well as to discuss and identify leadership practices as they emerged in the literature. Qualitative methods in the form of case studies of three elementary school principals…
Descriptors: Principals, School Turnaround, Leadership Responsibility, Administrator Role
Beattie, James W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative case study supplemented by quantitative data was employed to explore the understandings that 13 undergraduate students from a single Dean's Future Scholars (DFS) cohort held concerning the contributions of the six major components of DFS to their persistence into the second semester of their sophomore year of college at the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Ekas-Mueting, Adrienne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The aim of this exploratory study is to determine why student athletes admitted under University of Nevada, Las Vegas's (UNLV) alterative-admissions policy are successful, specifically by looking at the UNLV Athletic Department's institutional practices. Alternatively admitted athletes are the recipients of these practices. Although there is some…
Descriptors: College Students, Athletes, College Athletics, School Holding Power
Ginsburg, Victoria Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This descriptive qualitative case study explored the changing role of the reading specialist through various perceptions of professionals in the Neon Shadow School District. The purpose of the study was to explore what, how, and why the duties and responsibilities of the reading specialist have changed since first employed as an…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Specialists, Role Perception, Case Studies
Download full textCohen, Jennifer – New America Foundation, 2011
By late 2008, the United States was in the midst of its most severe economic recession since the 1930s, brought on by a collapse in real estate prices and exacerbated by the failure of many large banks and financial institutions. Heeding calls from economists, Congress and the Obama administration passed an historic law in early 2009 to stimulate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Case Studies, Institutional Characteristics
