Browsing GSE Theses and Dissertations by Author "Reuben, Julie"

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Controversies Over the Pledge of Allegiance in Public Schools: Case Studies Involving State Law, 9/11, and the Culture Wars

Montgomery, Jennifer J. (2015-05-15)

This dissertation examines state-level efforts to mandate the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, especially following 9/11. Despite longstanding Supreme Court precedent declaring mandatory flag salutes unconstitutional, ...
Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century

Miller, Rebecca B. (2017-05-08)

While specialists in all academic disciplines identify with their subjects of study, speaking of themselves for example as Classicists or Sociologists, the status of “scientist” is a uniquely distinctive social category. ...
Rhetoric and Reality in Study Abroad: The Aims of Overseas Study for U.S. Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

Contreras Jr., Eduardo (2015-05-15)

Political and educational leaders today often praise the benefits of study abroad with lofty rhetoric by arguing that overseas study can provide American undergraduate students with a variety of beneficial outcomes such ...