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Media, Curricula, & Socioacademics
(2016-10-18)
This dissertation is inspired by the creativity in children’s books and films, and by the possibilities for education as they are advancing with modern technology and media. Research tells us that youth are spending less ...
The Causal Impact of Attending High Tech High’s High Schools on Postsecondary Enrollment
(2015-10-22)
In recent years, a small but growing number of empirical studies have examined the causal impact of attending charter schools on academic achievement (Betts and Tang, 2011). In assessing achievement, researchers have ...
Time to Discipline? Estimating the Risks and Impact of Public-School Discipline
(2016-05-10)
In the three essays in this thesis, I explore the effect of school discipline policies on the suspension of public-school students, in an urban setting.
In the first essay, using aggregate data, I investigate the effect ...
Making the Routine Routine: Administrative Support and Improvement in New York City’s High Schools
(2015-05-04)
Modern schools are complex organizations, tasked with wide-ranging responsibilities. Too frequently, schools have few tools and limited support to carry out those responsibilities. Much attention has been paid to instructional ...
Learning for Adaptation: Building Teacher Career Pathways at DSST Public Schools
(2015-05-04)
The past five years have witnessed unprecedented changes in teacher evaluation systems, as states and districts have responded to federal incentives under the 2009 Race to the Top grant competition. Across the country, ...
Invasive Technologies: How Administrators, Teachers, and Students Negotiate the Use of Students’ Mobile Technologies in the Classroom
(2016-05-13)
The rise in popularity of mobile technologies, particularly with respect to youth, has created new challenges and opportunities for districts, schools, and classrooms. As more students come to own these devices they have ...
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 ...
Letting Go of Clecha, While Holding Corazón; Developing a New Approach to Empowering Youth in Gangs the Homeboy Industries Way
(2016-05-02)
This capstone seeks to assess and support Homeboy Industries (HBI), a leader in wrap-around services for formerly gang-involved and incarcerated men and women, in their co-creation of a youth services committee and a ...
Youth Organizing and the Civic Education Sector: Lessons From Theory and Practice to Organize a Way Forward
(2016-05-02)
America’s schools were founded on the principle that a democratic nation needed informed, active, and knowledgeable citizens in order to realize the promise of democracy. Over the last 400 years, we have lost our way. ...
School Choice and Educational Opportunities: The Upper-Secondary Student-Assignment Process in Mexico City
(2015-05-15)
Many education systems around the world use a centralized admission process to assign students to schools. By definition, some applicants to oversubscribed schools are not offered admission to their most-preferred school. ...