Browsing by FAS Department "Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice"
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Algebraic Functions, Computer Programming, and the Challenge of Transfer
(2015-05-17)Students' struggles with algebra are well documented. Prior to the introduction of functions, mathematics is typically focused on applying a set of arithmetic operations to compute an answer. The introduction of functions, ... -
Controversies Over the Pledge of Allegiance in Public Schools: Case Studies Involving State Law, 9/11, and the Culture Wars
(2015-05-15)This dissertation examines state-level efforts to mandate the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, especially following 9/11. Despite longstanding Supreme Court precedent declaring mandatory flag salutes unconstitutional, ... -
Leadership and Collaboration in Complex Organizations: Principals’ Interactions With Central Office in Two Large School Districts
(2015-05-15)There is increasing pressure on the central office, particularly in large school districts, to improve student outcomes across schools and to close large achievement gaps between groups of students based largely on race ... -
The State of the Gate: A Description of Instructional Practice in Algebra in Five Urban Districts
(2015-05-15)Algebra is considered a linchpin for success in secondary mathematics, serving as a gatekeeper to higher-level courses. Access to algebra is also considered an important lever for educational equity. Yet despite its ... -
Teachers’ Views of School-Based Professional Learning in Six High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Schools
(2015-05-15)Policy makers, practitioners and scholars agree that teachers need sustained job-embedded professional learning experiences to help students meet the demands of new accountability systems, higher education, and the workforce ... -
“Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water” Revisiting Emancipatory Schooling for African Americans – a Theoretical Exploration of Concepts for Liberation
(2015-06-05)African Americans have a long history in the United States of being asked to live within, and flourish in spite of, a racist society. Throughout this history, African Americans built education institutions – often referred ... -
What Produces a History Textbook?
(2015-05-16)In this dissertation, I undertake a sequential analysis of an elaborate system of forces that contribute to the production of history textbooks in Pakistan. I review longitudinal series of data on education policies and ... -
When Teachers Speak of Teaching, What Do They Say? a Portrait of Teaching From the Voices of the StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative
(2015-05-15)There is a significant lack of educational research in which teachers’ talk about teaching is not mediated by researchers. In the public sphere, teachers’ voices rarely reach us unfiltered by the media, union and school ...