Browsing by Author "Dale Ballou"
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Kern, Emily Christine (2019-06-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis mixed-methods dissertation uses benchmark data to explore how schools in a large urban district responded to shifting accountability policy incentives as the state changed from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to a waiver ...
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Springer, Matthew George (2006-10-26)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesDespite speculation that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001’s (NCLB) finely tuned attention to improving academic opportunities for traditionally low-performing students and student subgroups compromises educational ...
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Rodriguez, Luis Alberto (2018-06-07)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe prevailing public discourse surrounding the effects of teacher tenure in public education is starkly divided. In recent years, a number of states have enacted tenure reforms, thereby potentially transforming the landscape ...
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Swain, Walker Alexander (2017-08-09)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesAmerican children of lower-income, Black, or Hispanic parents are more likely to suffer from poorer health, poorer academic performance, and ultimately poorer earnings, higher imprisonment, and earlier deaths than children ...
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Bailey, Martha Jane (2005-05-06)Department: EconomicsThe unprecedented integration of women into U.S. labor markets was one of the most significant economic and social changes of the Twentieth Century. Indeed, the transformation of legal and economic opportunities for women ...
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Exploring school sequences as a new unit of analysis for intradistrict school finance equity studies Houck, Eric A. (2006-12-19)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation used student and school-level data to create school assignment sequences at the student level; evaluated the distribution of resources across those sequences; and compared findings from equity analysis ...
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Liu, Keke (2010-11-23)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study examines both school and classroom level peer group effects on middle school student academic and behavioral outcomes in a mid-size urban district in the South. Identification of peer effects faces three major ...
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Peng, Xiao (2014-01-15)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesElementary school teacher certification is for generalists prepared to teach in self-contained classrooms, but those generalist teachers are not equally effective in teaching all core academic subjects. Prior studies have ...
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Curran, Frank Christopher (2015-06-24)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesZero tolerance school discipline policies have garnered increasing attention from the public and policymakers as a source of racial disparities in school discipline. While the literature suggests that exclusionary discipline ...