While teachers and schools across the country actively work to impart curricula that is relevant and meaningful to their students, the written standards and reading lists too often represent a Eurocentric perspective and reinforce inequities perpetuated by the status quo. Too frequently, teachers are inadequately supported with or provided…

In this mixed method study I evaluated the relationship between teachers' perceptions of text complexity and data of text complexity assessed by standard and non-standard measures in the disciplines of English Language Arts (ELA), science, and social studies. For the quantitative portion of this study, I evaluated and correlated the text…

This dissertation examines a curricular approach at an institution that claims to maintain a liberal arts focus--that of the canon of Great Books as implemented as a formal curriculum at St. John's College. My research question is: what enabled the Great Books program at St. John's College to survive for over seventy years? The significance of…