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The Effectiveness Of Cash Transfers As A Policy Instrument In K-16 Education, Jonathan Norman Mills
The Effectiveness Of Cash Transfers As A Policy Instrument In K-16 Education, Jonathan Norman Mills
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Cash transfers, defined as direct transfers of purchasing power from an institution or individual to another individual, are an increasingly popular policy instrument both abroad and in the United States. This dissertation investigates how two educational interventions utilizing cash transfers affect participating students. The first, the Louisiana Scholarship Program, is a statewide program offering publicly financed scholarships for low income students attending poorly performing public schools to attend K-12 private schools. The second program, the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, is a state financed broad-based merit-aid scholarship for students in college within the state of Arkansas. In general, the results presented …
Teacher Quality And Sorting Across Traditional Public And Charter Schools In The Detroit Metropolitan Region, Michael F. Addonizio, C. Philip Kearney, Marytza A. Gawlik
Teacher Quality And Sorting Across Traditional Public And Charter Schools In The Detroit Metropolitan Region, Michael F. Addonizio, C. Philip Kearney, Marytza A. Gawlik
Educational Considerations
In the quest to raise student achievement in low-performing urban schools, researchers often point to the central importance of recruitment and retention of a high quality teacher workforce.
“I’M Trying To Get My A”: Black Male Achievers Talk About Race, School And Achievement, Quaylan Allen
“I’M Trying To Get My A”: Black Male Achievers Talk About Race, School And Achievement, Quaylan Allen
Education Faculty Articles and Research
This study seeks to challenge deficit views on Black male education by highlighting the perspectives of academically successful Black males in a secondary school setting. Employing interpretive qualitative methods, I present the narratives of academically successful Black males, emphasizing their reflections on race, school and academic achievement. In particular, this study highlights the educational dispositions and expectations of Black males, including the influences of their support systems on their academic trajectories. One support system comprised of parents, including the academic expectations held of their sons as well as their racial socializing practices. Another support system included their teachers, particularly those …