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Uplift And Blame: Minority Parents In The Discourse Of Professional Educators, Katie Mitchell
Uplift And Blame: Minority Parents In The Discourse Of Professional Educators, Katie Mitchell
Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology
This historical document analysis explores the professional discourse on minority parents in education during the Progressive (1900-1914), Post-Civil Rights/ESEA (1960-1974), and NCLB/Accountability Eras (1995-2009). Grounded theory was used to code and analyze 430 articles mentioning parents and/or home life from two peer-reviewed journals of education. Research questions asked which minority parents are of interest to educators in each era, how minority parenting roles are portrayed in the educational discourse, and why minority parents concern educators. Findings include a focus on immigrant parents in the Progressive Era and on African American and Hispanic parents in the Post-Civil Rights/ESEA and NCLB/Accountability Eras. …
Closures And Consolidation: Schools, Farms, And Population Decline In Rural Illinois, Eric Porter
Closures And Consolidation: Schools, Farms, And Population Decline In Rural Illinois, Eric Porter
Master's Theses - Sociology and Anthropology
This thesis reports the results of a year-long quantitative research project that examined the causal relationships between population loss, agricultural consolidation and school closures in rural Illinois—three primary facets of the overall decline in rural America. Conventional wisdom conceptualizes the following progression: a shifting U.S. economy from agriculture to manufacturing moved jobs to urban centers, which along with the reduced need for labor from industrialization in farming, caused out-migration from rural America; eventually this led to many rural schools closing due to dropping enrollment. However, it is hypothesized that these processes create exacerbating feedback loops. Specifically, loss of population leads …