In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
This thesis explores the concepts that make up an effective classroom demonstration, derived the analytical form of gravitational wave emission from a binary system, and …
This dissertation, a social and cultural history of media and education in postwar Philadelphia, examines the concurrent struggles against racial discrimination on American Bandstand and …
The present thesis examines the K-12 educational experiences of Black undergraduate women to better inform education policy. Much of education literature on Black girls highlights …
In this paper, I investigate whether higher levels of parental engagement may play a role in district variation in achievement. Research has shown that the …
Education scholars have long noted a positive relationship between concerted cultivation and test scores. Yet, few studies have found variation by race, a factor Black …
This dissertation tackles gender-based price discrimination, education, and child well-being. Chapter 1 conducts a field experiment to identify gender-based discrimination and how it varies with …
Chapter 1 analyzes how market forces in the retail market for pharmaceuticals affect utilization of health care. Specifically, I study the impact of Walmart’s $4 …
This dissertation evaluates disparities in economic outcomes by gender and ethnicity, with a focus on the underlying causes and the policies that can be used …
Students often tackle programming problems with a flawed understanding of what the problem is asking. Some pedagogies attempt to address this by encouraging students to …
Many bodies of work regarding the state of Africa in the present time are concerning whether the history of European colonialism in Africa was positive …
This thesis introduces the K-12 Education Matrix Framework (Education Matrix), first comprehensive framework that describe US K-12 public school districts. Then, the Health Within K-12 …
The US education system is littered with achievement and opportunity gaps. For decades research has studied the inequalities between schools, focusing substantially on resource gaps …
This thesis investigates the effectiveness of the implementation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVHAA) through case studies of New York and Pennsylvania. The MVHAA …
L'école de la maladresse questions the concept of clumsiness as it emerged in eighteenth-century France and as it evolved from constituting the utmost social disgrace …
Through an analysis of documents from Ottoman and American state archives, newspaper and journal publications, and non-governmental organization reports from the period 1878 to 1928, …
Personalized learning (PL) has become a hot topic in education discourse for its potential to tailor students’ learning to their individual skills and interests. Drawn …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
Educational assessments are crucial for both instructors and education researchers to measure learning, troubleshoot student problems, evaluate pedagogy, and improve education. Unfortunately, creating and administering …