The purpose of this study was to investigate the perspectives of school psychologists who had experience working with linguistically diverse speaking families in special education. The focus was on their experiences communicating and collaborating with these families as well as their training backgrounds. The study aimed to explore the training,…

This study examined how COVID-19 impacted elementary schools' reading achievement in rural school districts in South Carolina. The study employed the comparative research design to investigate differences between reading achievement before and after COVID-19 of rural elementary schools regarding gender and racial ethnicity. The methodology of this…

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists (CRNAs) are in an ideal position as healthcare providers to eliminate health disparities and inequities in the many areas of healthcare CRNAs influence while providing anesthesia and pain management care. The problem is that the CRNA workforce lacks the ethnic and racial diversity necessary to mirror…

Scholarship on racial diversity initiatives outline the positive outcomes associated with initiatives, describes the types of initiatives, and the various ways faculty, staff, and university leadership can and do work together for effective outcomes. However, there is a need to understand how racial diversity initiatives are implemented, what…

Individuals from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds are underrepresented as counselor education faculty. In the current literature, these counselor educators report limited mentorship due to a lack of culturally diverse faculty to serve as mentors and ineffective mentoring approaches. The purpose of this study was to discover an emergent…

For many Black African international students, the statement, "I never knew I was Black until I came to the U.S." echoes the dilemma and complexity of race, Blackness and ethnic diversification and multiple Black identities in America. This is because, for the most part in Central, Eastern, Southern (except South Africa), and Western…

The purpose of this generic qualitative inquiry study was to identify the common themes in the practices that school counselors used to maintain their professional identities when interacting and communicating with school administrators. Furthermore, there is a gap in the literature on the relationship of school counselors with administrators…

Teachers of Color (TOCs) make up just 20% of the teacher workforce in the United States, while the proportion of Students of Color (SOCs) has steadily grown to over half the nation's student population. To increase the ethnoracial diversity of the U.S. teacher workforce, teacher preparation programs (TPPs) must increase the number of Teacher…

The research questions addressed in this exploratory survey research were: (1) what is the degree of teachers' morale, and what perceptions do teachers have about their district and school leadership, (2) how does the degree of teachers' morale differ by their background characteristics, and (3) how are teacher perceptions of district and school…

In an era of accountability for educational performance, community colleges should know whether student success is influenced by hiring racially diverse employees. Student interactions with diverse individuals improve student achievement on key performance indicators. This correlational study expands the limited body of knowledge on the…

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) ensures the meaningful participation of all parents during the construction of the Individual Education Program (IEP) for students with special needs. Factors of globalization have exacerbated this collaborative process between special education teachers and parents of students with special…

Access to higher education pursuits has expanded through the growth of online education offerings. The purpose of this causal comparative study was to compare undergraduate student perceptions of community in the online classroom across different ethnicities to determine if these differences were significant. The community of inquiry (CoI) serves…

The role of the K-12 school superintendency remains predominantly white and male. However, there has been a slight increase in racial and gender diversity in the past several decades, as documented in the American Superintendent 2020 Decennial Study. The American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) 2020 decennial study revealed the number…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to explore how novice middle-class White female elementary school teachers' implement affective and instructional strategies in teaching in a culturally diverse public school district in a Southwestern state in the United States. The theoretical foundation was Campinha-Bacote Cultural…

Higher education research supports that diverse faculty reflecting the students' ethnic and gender diversity is best practice to facilitate students of color academic success. Yet regrettably the underrepresentation of faculty of color in higher education is a historic and ongoing problem. Further, may scholars point to college senior leaders as…