This study uses a rate of return model and a Regression technique to estimate the net effects of investment in higher education in the United States, more comprehensively on key measures of monetary and non-monetary outcomes ...

I examine the race talk dilemmas of school officials in public school meetings over a 20 year period to attempt to understand why racialized policies and practices still persist against African American students at Blakesdale ...

Ongoing inequitable educational outcomes for marginalized students drive this study. Data show that our current educational system is not meeting the needs of all our students. Our Black and Brown students continue to be ...

My final chapter attempted to relate my findings to the existing literature review, and also explained how the findings interacted with the sociocultural framework. In general, the goals and experiences of my participating ...

This dissertation juxtaposes representations of Puerto Rican migration in the media with narratives of individuals engaging in rural-to-rural migration between the island and the United States in the 21st century. Specifically, ...

Data gathered through survey instruments were analyzed to reveal similarities and differences in the ways Korean women of different sociocultural backgrounds define and perceive rape. In the rape definition study, the ...

This thesis poses a general model for optimal control subject to information constraint, motivated in part by recent work on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control ...

This dissertation examined the ways in which African American Language (AAL) speakers utilized AAL in various discursive contexts in an elementary two-way immersion (TWI) Spanish/English dual-language program. In this ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the reasons why these women decided to stay or leave their high school. More specifically, the theme of language and having access to bilingual education was one of the more salient ...

Caring is an important topic in the K-12 classroom setting, and it relates to the academic achievement of at-risk students. However, the K-12 caring literature tends to focus on relational aspects and not on subject matter. ...