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Walking on Egg Shells: Colorblind Ideology and Race Talk in Teacher Education
ABSTRACT Background/Context: Teacher education students in the U.S., regardless of their personal beliefs, knowledge, and levels of awareness, are racially positioned to participate in an education system and society ... -
Walking out of the Mountain: Cultural Identification and Education of Rural Migrant Muslim Students in Northwest China
The economic boom in China has brought major changes in its geographical and cultural landscapes. Significant among these is the magnitude and directionality of demographic mobility. It is estimated that 170-180 million ... -
Warriors of Lyari: Karachi's Hip Hop Movement and its Impact on Society and Education
Globalization, social media, and transnational trends have facilitated the transcension of Hip Hop culture across borders. In Pakistan, the movement gained momentum in Lyari, a neighbourhood from Karachi, Pakistan which ... -
"We ain't all the same!": A quantitative approach to examine the factors associated with African Immigrant and Black American ninth grade school success
(2014-02-24)High school is a time of transition for youth of all ethnic groups, but it is a particularly problematic time for African American youth in the United States. While many studies have evaluated the sense of school belonging ... -
What Are You Driving At?: How School Leaders Use Data When Making School-level Decisions About Instructional Improvement
(2014-02-24)Increasingly, educational policies include mandates for school leaders to use data to "drive" their school-level decisions about instructional improvement. Extant research suggests that school leaders are trying to use ... -
What Counts as Legitimate Participation? Embracing Students' Funds of Knowledge in Philosophical Inquiry
While ample theoretical and empirical work has been done around the aims, methods, and outcomes of Philosophy for Children (P4C), few interpretive case studies currently give voice to students’ lived experiences and ways ... -
What do We Know about Context: An Integrated Analysis of Context Characteristics of Science Assessment Items
Prior studies have widely documented the impact of characteristics of contextualized items on students’ test performance. However, the role of individual context characteristics on assessment results is not fully understood. ... -
What Happened to the Free Schools?: The Free Schools Movement in the United States 1967-1972
What happened to the Free Schools movement in the United States, and why has it been so little examined by historians of education? What legacies were left by these bold experiments in education? The Free Schools movement ... -
What is the Impact of the Underserved Pathway program on Entering an Underserved Family Medicine Residency? A Comparison of Three Approaches for Estimating the Average Treatment Effect
Introduction: It is well known that more primary care physicians are needed in underserved areas of the U.S. While prior research has shown that medical student experiences in underserved settings helps to increase the ... -
What's so special about intercollegiate special admits? Implications for Academic Support Programming
(2012-09-13)The purpose of this case study is to gain insight into the academic, athletic and social experiences of specially admitted student-athletes in order to better understand what contributes to their lower academic performance ... -
What’s Happening Here? A Literature Review and Autoethnography Exploring the Intersection Between US Higher Education Reform, Management Consulting Firms, and Racial Equity and Justice Through a Black Feminist Lens
Public higher education institutions across the US interested in advancing equity on their campus are partnering with management consulting firms to implement institutional reform. Equity-focused scholars and practitioners ... -
What’s in a Rating? Teacher Evaluations of Students’ Social Emotional Competency: A Mixed Methods Study
University of Washington Abstract What’s in a Rating? Teacher Evaluations of Students’ Social Emotional Competency: A Mixed Methods Study Michelle Alissandra Proulx Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee Professor Leslie ... -
When Boys Become Men: Chicano/Latino Middle School Students and their Identities.
This ethnographic study explores the educational experiences of Chicano/Latino Middle School Males and their emerging racial, ethnic, and gender identities. This study employed Racial/Ethnic Identity Development Theory and ... -
When can Multidimensional Item Response Theory (MIRT) Models be a Solution for Differential Item Functioning (DIF)? A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
The present study was designed to examine whether multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models might be useful in controlling for differential item functioning (DIF) when estimating primary ability, or whether ... -
When principals lead for improved teaching: The importance principal-teacher interactions
Policymakers call on principals to support teachers’ improvement in their instructional practice. However, research on principals’ instructional leadership practice describe how principals’ actions focus on instruction and ... -
When Youth Scientists Disrupt the Riptide of Environmental Precarity: Lessons on Authoring Ecological Hope, Narrating Fieldwork and Designing for Ecojustice
This dissertation features a set of three sub-studies situated within a larger Critical Participatory Ethnography investigating how participatory science unfolds between youth and scientists to address issues of marine ... -
"Wherever I go I will be a loyal American": democracy and dissonance in the lives of Seattle's Nisei
(1999)This dissertation examines how Washington School in Seattle, Washington, the site of a Deweyan experiment in intercultural democracy, dealt with the challenge to its experiment by the news of the incarceration of its ... -
White Women Teachers and the Possibilities of Harm Reduction
This dissertation explores the potential of harm reduction principles to illuminate and mitigate the harmful effects of Whiteness on public schooling. More specifically, this project explores the potential of harm reduction ... -
Whiteness in racial dialogue: a discourse analysis
(2004)The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the discourses used by White preservice teachers in a dialogue about race with people of color. I used Whiteness theory to frame my observations, which defines Whiteness ... -
Who is Whistling Vivaldi?: How Black Football Players Engage with Stereotype Threats in College
Research has shown that the threat of negative stereotypes can have pernicious effects on the decision-making thoughts and behaviors for those who are targets (Steele, 2011). When college students and professors subscribe ...