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The Effect Of Teachers' Unions On Issues In School Reform, Katie Reed
The Effect Of Teachers' Unions On Issues In School Reform, Katie Reed
Public Administration & Policy
The thesis is divided into a number of sections. Part II examines some of the relevant literature on teachers’ unions and reform in education (specifically, merit pay, charter school, and school voucher reforms). The literature review presented in Part II is split up into two sections itself; Section A which examines the actual effectiveness of the aforementioned school reform programs on student achievement, and Section B, which examines literature showing the ways in which teachers’ unions impact school reform. In Part III, primary sources, including direct statements and information from teacher union websites and newspaper articles, are analyzed to determine …
Mortgage Lending Reform Finding Innovative State Responses To The Foreclosure Crisis, Leann Lu
Mortgage Lending Reform Finding Innovative State Responses To The Foreclosure Crisis, Leann Lu
Public Administration & Policy
In today’s American housing market, foreclosure can be seen as an epidemic resulting from the legal mass marketing of risky loan products and systematic overcharging of consumers in susceptible positions. Subprime mortgages are high-cost home loans intended for people with weak or blemished credit histories, and though they are intended to encourage and facilitate homeownership, not only did politicians create a flawed mortgage industry to push for this “American Dream” but it is arguably a manipulative industry that can easily be taken advantage of.1 Thus, current snapshots of the subprime market show that one in every five subprime mortgages made …
The Effects Of Organizational Culture And Climate On Employee's Turnover In Public Child Welfare Agencies, Miseung Shim
The Effects Of Organizational Culture And Climate On Employee's Turnover In Public Child Welfare Agencies, Miseung Shim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Background & Purpose: Employee's turnover in child welfare agencies negatively influences remaining employees, clients, and organization itself as well as losing skilled or trained employees. For example, employee's high turnover tends to be cyclical, in that high turnover gives additional workload burden to remaining employees and causes lack of continuity of services for vulnerable children and families. Moreover, child welfare agencies have to bear financial costs, including hiring and training. Although current literature increasingly emphasizes the importance of organizational factors in employee's turnover issues, more empirical research is needed to be conducted to understand organizational effects on employee's turnover. This …
Harm Reduction In Outpatient Drug-Free Substance Abuse Treatment Settings, Michael Eversman
Harm Reduction In Outpatient Drug-Free Substance Abuse Treatment Settings, Michael Eversman
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In the United States, drug-free substance abuse treatment programs generally operate under an abstinence-only, disease model based service orientation. Citing several reasons, critics suggest disease model approaches hinder client utilization and retention within such services. The framework of harm reduction offers an alternative approach to substance abuse treatment services and may have potential for improving utilization and retention outcomes. Yet little is known about how harm reduction is perceived by practitioners in drug-free substance abuse treatment settings, and the circumstances in which harm reduction may or may not be accepted. In addition, despite a body of narrative literature suggesting harm …
Public Perceptions Of Registry Laws For Juvenile Sex Offenders, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Bette L. Bottoms, Maria C. Vargas
Public Perceptions Of Registry Laws For Juvenile Sex Offenders, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Bette L. Bottoms, Maria C. Vargas
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Understanding jurors’ perceptions of juvenile defendants has become increasingly important as more and more juvenile cases are being tried in adult criminal court rather than family or juvenile court. Intellectual disability and child maltreatment are overrepresented among juvenile delinquents, and juveniles (particularly disabled juveniles) are at heightened risk for falsely confessing to crimes. In two mock trial experiments, we examined the effects of disability, abuse history, and confession evidence on jurors’ perceptions of a juvenile defendant across several different crime scenarios. Abused juveniles were treated more leniently than nonabused juveniles only when the juvenile’s crime was motivated by self-defense against …