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Bhatt, Suman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated the factors influencing students' performance in science subjects at different schools in a school district in the midland area of South Carolina. For the convenience of the study and to maintain confidentiality, the school district is named Midland School District 2022. The population of this study included students in…
Descriptors: Influences, Academic Achievement, Science Education, Comparative Analysis
Dustin Lee Julius – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this research is to determine whether the achievement gap between Black and White students differs significantly between Minnesota public charter schools and traditional Minnesota public schools. The reading and math proficiency gaps between Black and White students in Minnesota are among the largest in the nation. Despite the fact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Lee, Jeongwoo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The objectives of this dissertation include describing and analyzing the patterns of inequality in ALE participation at both the micro and macro levels. Special attention is paid to social origins of individual adults and their association with two groups of macro-level factors, social inequality (income, education, and skill inequality) and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Adult Education, Social Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Pickens, Tyra W. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to examine features of adolescent reading comprehension trajectories and make within-person and between-person analyses of growth that occurs during the high school grades. Racial and socioeconomic group differences of the adolescent reading trajectories were also investigated and compared. This examination…
Descriptors: Race, Socioeconomic Status, Reading Comprehension, Adolescents
Rafael Carrasco – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In this dissertation, I address the issue of social inequalities in education and the role of the education system in confronting them. The project involves two main parts, one empirical and the other conceptual. In the first part--chapters 1 and 2--I address the practical dimension of how to reduce social inequalities in education by exploring…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Strategies, Social Differences, Low Income Students