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Charting a New Path for Curricula Design by Centering the Experiences of Communities
(2022-10-28)In summer 2021, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) announced the development of a rigorous, inclusive, and affirming K-12 English Language Arts and Math curricula. At this moment in time, an off-the-shelf ... -
Children’s Internalizing Symptoms in Anticipation of the Transition to Middle School: Causal Inferences in the Context of a Natural Experiment
(2014-10-22)The middle-school transition has long been linked with poor social-emotional and academic outcomes for children. However to date, research on the middle-school transition has been predominantly observational, not experimental, ... -
The Civic Knowledge Gaps in Chile, Colombia and Mexico: An Application of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Method Using Data From the 2009 International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS)
(2016-05-23)The existence of significant differences in the civic knowledge, civic attitudes and civic skills of young people from different socio-economic (SES) backgrounds represent civic competence gaps that affect their ability ... -
Clarity and Coherence Amid Complexity and Consistent Change: Reconsidering the Role of Central Office Academic Support at the Los Angeles Unified School District
(2022-10-28)The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second-largest school district in the country, serving over 574,000 students. As with all school districts, L.A. Unified has experienced significant disruptions in the wake ... -
Classrooms Not Courtrooms: Using Cross Sector Collaboration to Support Justice-Involved Youth in Richmond City
(2018-05-01)All over the country, public schools have become feeders into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Overly harsh and discriminatory zero tolerance policies have systematically excluded young people from educational ... -
Collaborating to Improve Statewide Career Preparation Systems in Rhode Island
(2017-08-03)In January 2017, it was announced that Rhode Island was one of 10 states to win a $2 million grant for increasing career readiness. The state would use this grant to fund PrepareRI: A Unified Action Plan for Career Readiness, ... -
Collective Hope: Expanding School Leader Capacity to Authentically Engage Families, Students, and Teachers through Healing-Centered Collaborative Leadership in School Governance Bodies
(2023-05-22)Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) serves the beautifully diverse city of Oakland in California’s East Bay. The city, or “the Town” as Oakland natives might say, is steeped in community members’ dedication to fighting ... -
College Competition: The Effects of the Expansion of For-Profit Colleges on Student Enrollments and Outcomes at Public Community Colleges
(2016-02-19)Community colleges enrolled 37 percent of students attending Title IV-eligible, degree-granting institutions in 2000, but by 2012, this had dropped to 33 percent (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2013). ... -
College Late Departure in the United States: Exploring the Scope and Cause of Dropout Among Students Who Are Close to Earning a Degree
(2018-04-25)Although many U.S. college students drop out after their second year of school, research on withdrawal has mostly focused on early departure. As a result, late departure–the phenomenon whereby students leave after making ... -
Colorblind and Colorlined: African American Parents Talk to Their Adolescent Sons About Racism
(2015-05-21)Racial socialization, particularly preparation for bias and discrimination, is a long documented strategy employed by African American families to prepare their children for racist encounters. During the last fifteen years ... -
Community Organizing and School Transformation
(2016-05-02)Across the country, community organizing has emerged as a strategy for engaging low-incoming communities and communities of color in school transformation. There is increasing recognition that this approach can be used to ... -
Consider the Children: Unintended Consequences of the Jamaican Primary Education Accountability System
(2017-05-09)In a move to address the persistently low literacy levels of primary schoolchildren, in 2009, the Jamaican Ministry of Education reclassified the Grade-4 Literacy Test (GFLT) to high stakes. Since then, students must pass ... -
Continuity, Coherence, and Change: Examining the Conditions for Effective Intervention Practices in an Urban School District
(2018-04-30)Public school districts are responsible for ensuring that all of their students receive a high-quality education and achieve academic success. What, then, should a district do when a student is struggling to master grade ... -
A Contributing Role of Parental Investments in Early Learning to Head Start Impacts on Children’s Language and Literacy: Examining How Mechanisms of Program Impact Differ for Spanish-Speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and Non-DLL
(2015-05-15)Head Start is the largest and longest-standing publicly-funded preschool program, serving close to 1 million low-income children and their families, with an annual budget of over $10 billion. While early childhood programs ... -
Controversies Over the Pledge of Allegiance in Public Schools: Case Studies Involving State Law, 9/11, and the Culture Wars
(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, ... -
CPS’s Journey to Becoming an Anti-Racist District
(2021-10-15)For the past several years, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) has implemented multiple equity and racial equity efforts. Most recently, in 2019, CPS made an explicit commitment to becoming an anti-racist district and drafted ... -
Creating a Campaign for Black Male Achievement: Building a Collective Impact Strategy to Support Black Male Achievement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(2015-05-22)This capstone shows how I framed and enacted a collective impact strategy to build a campaign for African-American male achievement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project was anchored in TandemED, an initiative developed ... -
Creating Value for Teachers: Product Development at the Intersection of Education and Technology
(2015-05-04)Between 2011 and 2014, investment funding for education technology companies increased by an average of 40% per year (Catalano, 2015). With an expanding footprint and funding stream, education technology companies have ... -
Cross-Departmental Teaming for Strategy Execution
(2015-05-04)This capstone examines how a newly formed senior-level team worked together to complete a complex task, while driving towards a larger goal of becoming a learning organization. For the 2014-2015 academic year, central ... -
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Design Breakthrough School Models: Strategic Community Building for Transcend
(2017-04-25)Traditional “industrial model” schooling was created for a different era. Student outcomes have flat-lined, and student motivation is disturbingly low. To see both the change and leap in outcomes students deserve, we must ...