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Racial Profiling In Education: A Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Students In Special Education, Cairen D. Ireland
Racial Profiling In Education: A Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Students In Special Education, Cairen D. Ireland
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
African American males have performed near the bottom of the educational hierarchy in America for centuries. Though some improvements have been noted in the last several decades, educational statistics illustrate the achievement gap still persists between African American and White students (Hanushek, 2016). Disaggregated data show disparities in academic performance, high school drop-out rates, and college completion rates. African American males as early as kindergarten are also facing harsher discipline in schools and Black boys are often excluded from gifted and advanced placement courses and other educational opportunities (Howard, 2010). Yet, this population is over-referred and overrepresented in special education, …
Exploring An African American Principal's Cultural Leadership Effects On Closing The Achievement Gap, Doristine Cornelius
Exploring An African American Principal's Cultural Leadership Effects On Closing The Achievement Gap, Doristine Cornelius
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Closing the achievement gap is a key concern for educational leaders. Research has indicated that principals’ actions directly and indirectly influence student learning. The purpose of this case study was to explore cultural leadership in an urban Mississippi high school from an African American’s racialized perspective. The cultural competency/proficiency theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. Successful leadership practices of this African American principal were examined through the principal and through the perceptions of teachers and the assistant administrator. A researcher-developed questionnaire was content validated and given to a purposeful sample of 17 individuals: the principal, assistant principal, and …
African American Male Community College Completion And Mode Of Instruction, Lisa M. Harper
African American Male Community College Completion And Mode Of Instruction, Lisa M. Harper
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Despite innovative policy and pedagogical transformations, postsecondary achievement gaps continue to exist between African American males and other students. Low college credential completion rates by African American males have prevented an East Texas community college from meaningful participation in the President's 2020 postsecondary education attainment goal of increasing U.S. college graduates by 5 million. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate a hypothesized connection between the independent variable, mode of instruction, and the dependent variables, mathematics course completion and college completion by African American males. Guided by Ogbu's cultural-ecological theory of minority school performance, a chi-square test of …
Afrocentric Pedagogy As A Transformative Educational Practice, Miranda L. Ra'oof
Afrocentric Pedagogy As A Transformative Educational Practice, Miranda L. Ra'oof
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
This mixed-methods study analyzed the effectiveness of the practices and attitudes of selected African American teachers who use culturally relevant and responsive Afrocentric pedagogies as the instructional foundation for improved academic outcomes with their African American students. The theory of Afrocentricity was used as the philosophical framework to study their pedagogy. Afrocentricity is a mode of thought and practice in which in African people are placed at the center of their own history and culture; engages them as subjects rather than objects; and approaches them with respect for their interests, values, and perspectives (Asante 1980, 2003). Concepts employed from this …
Trait Emotional Intelligence, Perceived Discrimination, And Academic Achievement Among African American And Latina/O High School Students: A Study Of Academic Resilience, Nicholas Russell Abel
Trait Emotional Intelligence, Perceived Discrimination, And Academic Achievement Among African American And Latina/O High School Students: A Study Of Academic Resilience, Nicholas Russell Abel
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
The goal of academic resilience research is to identify factors and processes which lead to academic success among groups of students generally found to be at-risk, including those of African American and Latina/o descent. The present study investigated a possible risk factor (perceptions of discrimination), a possible protective factor (emotional intelligence), and the role of gender in predicting academic achievement (as measured by high school GPA) in a sample (N = 79) of African American and Latina/o high school students attending one high school in Minnesota. Through the use of multiple regression, neither emotional intelligence nor perceptions of discrimination was …
Perceptions Of Race And Academic Success In An Affluent Suburban Middle School, Robyn Ashley Duran
Perceptions Of Race And Academic Success In An Affluent Suburban Middle School, Robyn Ashley Duran
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Public school districts across the nation are organizing to eradicate the racial predictability of academic achievement between African American and Hispanic children and their White and Asian peers, (Ferguson, 2001). This phenomenological study was designed to better illuminate the phenomenon of the racial achievement gap in an affluent educational setting. The story of race and academic achievement was told through perceptions held among minority and non-minority parents in an affluent educational setting.
Parents are a large piece of the bedrock which determines the academic success of all students. The role of the parent is particularly important in shaping the academic …
Closing The Achievement Gap Of The Urban Minority Student Migrating To The Suburban Public High School, Joseph Pompilio
Closing The Achievement Gap Of The Urban Minority Student Migrating To The Suburban Public High School, Joseph Pompilio
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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