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A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Early Career Teachers, Teacher Retention, and the Importance of Teacher Leadership in Rural Title I Schools
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Nicole J. Britt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher retention in rural Title I schools has declined drastically over the past several years. As more teachers leave the profession and turnover is climbs to astounding rates in these schools, the quality of education in the United States continues to decline. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Leadership
Chinese Dual Language Immersion Teacher Professional Learning Community
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He, Ye; Ouyang, Qiuyu; Zhang, Hanxuan – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2022
To support the increasing numbers of Chinese language programs in the United States, there is a need to recruit and support highly qualified teachers. In this study, we described an online professional learning community (PLC) among a small group of Kindergarten Chinese teachers. All the teachers were visiting teachers with prior teaching…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Communities of Practice, Chinese
A Qualitative Study of Students from Counties of Persistent Poverty and How Social Capital Impacts Their Decision to Pursue Higher Education
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Brown, Ivey – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how and why the human, cultural, and social capital (or lack thereof) of students from rural North Carolina counties of persistent poverty impacted their decision to attend a historically black college or university (HBCU). Students from counties of persistent poverty in their first semester…
Descriptors: Counties, Poverty, Social Capital, Decision Making
An Anchor for the Region: Examining a Regional Comprehensive University's Efforts to Serve its Rural, Appalachian Community
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Orphan, Cecilia M.; McClure, Kevin R. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2019
Recent media reporting and research suggest that regional comprehensive universities (RCUs) and other postsecondary institutions may play an integral role in the welfare of rural regions, yet empirical research on the regional service of rural postsecondary institutions is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine how a single RCU serves…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Regional Characteristics, Geographic Regions
Capital Conversion and Accumulation: A Social Portrait of Legacies at an Elite University
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Martin, Nathan D.; Spenner, Kenneth I. – Research in Higher Education, 2009
Legacies, or students with a family member who graduated from the same college or university, have been the source of much debate. We add to the existing literature by providing a detailed empirical portrait of legacies at a private, selective university across the college years. We examine how legacies are distinctive in their admissions…
Descriptors: Human Capital, College Graduates, Social Capital, Data Collection
Social Capital: Relationship between Social Capital and Teacher Job Satisfaction within a Learning Organization
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Chazon, Timothy Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation was designed to study the relationship between Social Capital and teacher Job Satisfaction for 11 selected North Carolina Middle Schools. This study uses the learning organizational theory and social capital theory as theoretical constructs for studying the complex relationships between school as a Learning Organization (LO),…
Descriptors: Expertise, Human Capital, Middle Schools, Job Satisfaction