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THE HISTORY AND STRATEGIES OF ADDRESSING THE BLACK-WHITE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN THE U.S.
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Since the 1960s, the academic achievement gap between black and white students in the United States has been prevalent. Black student academic achievement is on average two grade levels below whites. In the last 30 years, ...
Chaos in the Academy- A History of and Challenges to Liberal Education
(Georgetown University, 2018)
For more than twenty-five hundred years of recorded history the creation and communication of knowledge has increased in quantity and complexity. The method of communicating that knowledge has evolved in difficulty along ...
The Relationship Between Capital Expenditures and Average Freshman Graduate Rates of Local Education Agencies
(Georgetown University, 2018)
High school graduation is associated with higher salaries and lower probabilities of incarceration, among other benefits. However, it is unclear what financing decisions can maximize student outcomes. This study explores ...
Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980 examines the gendered transformation in the territory that became Libya from the late Ottoman period until after ...
Linking cognition and emotion: An appraisal study of foreign language teacher anxiety
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Anxiety is one of the most researched affective variables in the instructed language learning process in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Yet, existing studies almost exclusively target the student population, ...
The Impact of High School Advanced Placement Course Participation on College Enrollment Among Would-Be-First-Generation College Students
(Georgetown University, 2018)
As the number of would-be first-generation college students increases in high schools across the United States, policymakers must look for more ways to increase rates of postsecondary enrollment for this often vulnerable ...
Special Education Integration in U.S. Secondary Schools: Investigating How Teacher Perceptions Relate to Academic Outcomes for Students Without Disabilities
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Education policy in the United States has been moving toward a more inclusive approach, founded in a belief that every child deserves equal opportunity for a world-class education. This strong preference set forth by ...
The Yellow Ribbon Program's Effect on Beneficiary Enrollment at Participating Institutions
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper examines the influence of VA education benefits on beneficiary enrollment by analyzing the specific effects of the Post-9/11 GI Bill’s Yellow Ribbon Program. Existing scholarship studies the Post-9/11 GI Bill’s ...
The Role of Teacher Implicit Bias in the Racial Achievement Gap
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The black-white academic achievement gap in the American education system persists, despite decades-long efforts to close it. Several theories have been posited to explain this achievement gap between students of different ...
Get Good: Self-Regulation, Education, and Epistemic Agency
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In this dissertation, I defend a unified account of knowledge and use it to articulate and resolve a number of problems in social epistemology. I argue that to know how to Φ is to have a self-regulated ability to live up ...