Browsing GSE Theses and Dissertations by Title
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GAME CHANGER: Centering Families in the Educational Process
(2023-05-22)According to Karen Mapp and Eyal Birgman, "A large amount of research supports the ideology that improved family-school relations can lead to improved interactions with the school." But unfortunately, the education system ... -
Gateways to Achievement: a State Education Agency-Led Strategy to Catalyze Innovative School and District Turnaround Efforts
(2015-05-05)Over the past 20 years, State Education Agencies have expanded their traditional role, focused on distributing federal funds and compliance monitoring, to become responsible for developing state-level standards, measuring ... -
Gender and Race in Children's Picture Books: A Tragedy in Three Studies
(2017-05-09)Research has demonstrated that male central characters outnumber female central characters. In a series of studies, I demonstrate that this imbalance is even more acute in the books that children read, that it is far worse ... -
General Knowledge Among the People: Rural Strategy Development at the College Board
(2016-05-02)10 million students walk into rural schools every school day, representing about 20% of the United States’ public school population. More than a third of all public schools and almost three-fifths of local education agencies ... -
Girls Doing Science: A Case Study of Science Literacy in All-Female Middle Grade Classrooms
(2014-10-22)In the face of low adolescent literacy rates (NCES, 2012), concerns about the nation’s prospects of remaining competitive in science and technology (Hill, Corbett, & St. Rose, 2010), a persistent gender gap in science ... -
Going Far Together: Cultivating Catalytic Partnerships to Fuel & Sustain Community Transformation
(2023-05-22)The Collective Impact field recently turned ten years old. One of the enduring findings over the past decade is the critical role of backbone support in helping to guide the efforts of collaboratives. In the absence of ... -
Grassroots Social Action and the National Museum of the American Indian
(2015-05-15)Museums are educational institutions that, historically, have often reflected dominant-culture biases in their treatment of religious artifacts and human remains from Native societies (Bal, 1996; Bieder, 1986, 1996; Bilosi ... -
Helping Teacher-Created Ideas Survive and Thrive
(2017-05-01)How might we encourage educators’ ideas and innovative approaches, and support the survival, sustenance, and growth of those ideas and innovations? This essential question is relevant and important for the U.S. education ... -
High Expectations With High Support: A Case Study of the Level-Up Initiative
(2018-04-27)The Cambridge Public School District serves approximately 7,000 students within Cambridge, Massachusetts’ 6.6 square miles. City and school district leaders refer to Cambridge as a resource-rich city that spends one of the ... -
How a Neighborhood Raises a Child: Creating Resource Rich Neighborhood Youth Ecosystems
(2023-05-16)Purpose Built Communities, a national nonprofit established in 2009, is dedicated to promoting equity and opportunity in disinvested neighborhoods across the United States. The organization supports 27 local organizations, ... -
How an (In)Effective Implementation Team Leads to an (In)Effective & (In)Equitable Worker Advisory Board
(2021-10-15)Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, 5 million young adults in the United States were disconnected from stable career pathways while 7.6 million jobs went unfilled (Ross and Bateman, 2018). Today, 44 million ... -
How Do Experts and Novices Think About Climate Change? Thinking Routines as Learning and Assessment Tools
(2016-05-10)Developments in the last century – the global economy, unprecedented migration patterns, and the digital revolution – have forced a challenging shift in the way we think about what matters most to learn. As traditional ... -
How People Learn to Think Globally: Mapping and Measuring the Development of Internormative Cognition
(2018-05-08)Managing the global organization of human activity requires the cognitive capacity to generate internormative frameworks of judgment—frameworks that transcend the boundaries between normative communities. This dissertation ... -
Identifying Predictors of Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: A Study on Early Adolescents in Korea and China
(2017-10-27)Attaining English proficiency in two East Asian countries, Korea and China, is often described as a “national obsession.” Although adolescent English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners are rapidly increasing in number, ... -
If Not Now, When? Learning From One Organization’s Effort to Hire for Diversity and Excellence
(2017-02-13)Many education organizations are committed to diversity, but few achieve it in their staffing. Organizations typically recruit from the professional networks of their existing staff. Selection processes can be influenced ... -
Impact Through Partnership: How District Central Offices Can Foster Principals’ Development as Effective Instructional Leaders Through Systems of Support, Development, and Accountability
(2017-05-01)Public schools in the United States have not historically nor do they currently serve all students excellently and equitably. Principals are key stakeholders in educational transformation as the second most impactful ... -
Implicit Learning: Development, Individual Differences, and Educational Implications
(2015-03-10)This dissertation attempts to link models from cognitive neuroscience with problems and models from education research as well as to advance our understanding of implicit learning. In addition to a review of the current ... -
Improving ELA Outcomes & Laying the Foundation for Consistent Long-Term Success at Promise Academies
(2015-05-11)Reliably delivering high quality academic outcomes at scale is a significant challenge facing the education sector. The more rigorous bar set by the Common Core has deepened this challenge for school systems. During the ... -
Improving on Strength: Developing Coaching Competencies for the NYC Leadership Academy
(2016-04-29)The NYC Leadership Academy has been coaching school leaders for over a decade. The Academy is regarded as a national leader in the field of coaching and the organization continues to expand, learn, and refine its coaching ... -
Improving Transfer Pathways: the Impact of Statewide Articulation Policies
(2017-05-08)Students who first enroll in a community college may experience barriers to attain a bachelor’s degree if they lose credits in the process of transferring to a four-year institution. Statewide articulation policies establish ...