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The Contribution Of Urban 4-H Positive Youth Development Towards Social Capital And The Implications For Social Justice
(2016)
Education is a basic human need-it is a means to and an exercise of one's freedom. A meaningful education empowers people to claim their humanity, liberate their people and work towards social justice (Perry, Steele & ...
The Impact Of Charter Schools On The Budget, Operations, And Educational Services Of Columbus City Schools
(2009)
Today one of the most notable school reform efforts is that of providing school choice options to families. An aim of this reform effort is to create market driven changes in the performance of traditional public schools. ...
An Exploration Of Birth Parents' Child Welfare Mandated Service Experiences
(2015)
When children are placed in out-of-home care due to maltreatment, the parents are mandated to receive services in order to reunify with their children. Studies have been completed on parents' service experiences, but little ...
Toward The Design And Implementation Of Stem Professional Development For Middle School Teachers: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2016)
The aim of this qualitative study was to determine how professional development might be designed to meet the needs of teachers delivering interdisciplinary STEM instruction in an urban middle school. This study was framed ...
"Let My Mountains Be"
(2010)
This thesis presents two chapters of an original novel, "Let My Mountains Be." The novel tells the story of Ruby Jamison, a woman from a small, rural southern community who struggles to sustain true happiness and stability ...
The Association Between Going Concern Audit Opinion, Corporate Governance, And Real Earnings Management
(2015)
My dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay examines the association between going concern audit opinions and real earnings management. The second essay examines the association between corporate governance ...
Gendered Discourse In The Confessionalists And The New Journalists
(2010)
This study compares the discourse of male female American authors who produced works between 1960 to 1975 in order to challenge existing theories of gender and discourse. It focuses on identifying the similarities and ...
Closing The Stem Gap With Culturally And Cognitively Appropriate Cyber-Instruction In An All-Girl Inner-City Charter School Stem Program: A Case Study
(2015)
It is rare that qualitative and emotional factors are explored in the field of engineering. Until recently, the use of both quantitative and qualitative strategies to examine a single research question has been a subject ...
The Development Of Freshman Precalculus Students' Understanding Of Exponential (Exp)
(2014)
This action research examined the effectiveness of APOS Theory/ACE teaching method and whether it improves student conceptual understanding of exp/log functions and my instructional practices. The study implemented APOS ...
Nutrition In Transition: An Examination Of Nutritional Attitudes And Behaviors Among A Transitional Housing Population In Baltimore, Md
(2016)
Baltimore City has the highest rate of homelessness in all of the counties in Maryland. On any single night in Baltimore City, 2,796 men, women, and children experience homelessness. This number has continued to rise each ...