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(2002)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 ...
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(1998)African American students that attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois and University), from the early years of its founding had to bear much of the burden their ancestors had endured. ...
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(2019-04-18)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 ...
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(2003)The transfer of cultural, social, and symbolic capital shapes the educational processes and influences the educational outcomes of African-American students in desegregated environments. The stratified nature of capital ...
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(2021-06-29)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 ...
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(2020-07-17)Five of the best high schools in Illinois are part of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and are part of an elite category also known as Selective Enrollment High Schools (SEHS). In 2009, CPS was released from the consent decree ...
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(2009)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 ...
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(2001)I describe each of the four teachers in detail in order to understand them and their practice from their perspectives. I examine how mainstream European-American cultural beliefs about the independent self are enacted in ...
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(2018-07-09)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, ...
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(2006)Findings from this study help to understand how Muslims and Hindus construe and interpret sexual VAW in contexts of inter-ethnic strife. Findings also identify specific attitudes that predict whether Muslims and Hindus ...
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(2006)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 ...
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(2015-01-21)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 ...
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(1988)Educators may not understand the contribution farm work makes to the conceptual development of farm youth. When life experience is not integrated in the classroom it may be that teachers believe teaching and learning should ...
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(2019-04-16)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 ...
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(1997)The findings of the study indicated that students who were involved in the experiential community service-learning program demonstrated positive and significant gains in the following areas: planning and career exploration ...
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(2008)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 ...
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(2001)Findings highlight the role of parental active support and corresponding literacy practices at home, as promoters of positive effects of bilingualism and consequently literacy learning. In addition, the school's use of ...
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(2015-01-21)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. ...
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