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Smith, Jill M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation focuses on the growing role of private, for-profit Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) in the college application process. Over the past two decades, an "admission industrial complex" of commercial enterprises designed to help students strategize about admissions and give them information about colleges has…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Bound Students, Consultants, Role
Givre, Sophia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation analyzes how mandated high-stakes tests and college and career ready standards influence local curricula and the reproduction of inequalities between students. I found that inequalities were reproduced based on distinctions between students in co-taught courses (classes that required the presence of an aide to assist students…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Class, Teaching Methods, Advanced Placement
Milhomme, Marcy B. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
I set out to explore the question: How do middle-class, working-class and low-income mothers experience their children's out of school summer time? Using qualitative basic interpretive approach, study findings draw from interview data, journal entries and participant observations from a study completed with 22 mothers of varying socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Middle Class, Working Class
Mashriqi, Khalida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative, phenomenological study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of 12 Afghan women enrolled in higher education institutions in Afghanistan. The objective was to develop an understanding of the participants' perceptions of the factors that led to their enrollment in higher education and the factors that inhibit Afghan women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Education, Higher Education
Jones, Christopher S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study examined the issue of history education and its failure to understand and implement the most effective teaching and learning strategies for the discipline. It did this by conducting interviews, observations, and a focus group with a group of history teachers in a suburban high school in New England. While aiming to explain…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Comprehension, Secondary School Teachers
Stein-Steele, Eric Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to (a) understand foster parents' perceptions of their parental roles and their involvement in their foster children's academic work; (b) understand their perceptions of their experiences in interacting with their foster children's public school; and (c) provide suggestions to enhance the parent-school collaboration…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Parent Attitudes, Parent Role, Elementary Schools
Okwako, Betty Akinyi – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The goal of this study was to illuminate the educational experiences of one of the least researched immigrant groups--African girls. I relied mainly on narratives of four African immigrant girls in public high schools to elucidate how these girls defined their learning environment. Out of school observations were used to supplement in-depth…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Class, Females, Family Characteristics
McNamee, Rick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This practitioner action research using qualitative techniques of gathering data looks at the experiences of students in a mostly white, upper-middle class suburb who enrolled in a class that integrated mathematics with social justice issues. The researcher designed the curriculum and co-taught the one semester course. The data were collected from…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods
Brown, Stacey Marvetta – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The state of African American education is complex. Beginning in the 17th century, African Americans fought for an education that allowed them to read and write. During the 21st century, African Americans value on education extends beyond only reading and writing to using these skills and other skills to maintain strong academic and leadership…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Choice, College Preparation, High Achievement
Bullock, Donna – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A review of studies selected from the Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) covering the years 1985 through 2011 revealed three key evaluation components to analyze within a comprehensive teacher evaluation program: (a) designing, planning, and implementing instruction; (b) learning environments; and (c) parent and peer surveys. In this…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Instructional Design
Lewis, Andrea D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The intent of this study was to explore the perceptions of Black middle and upper class preservice teachers as they relate to teaching and learning in high poverty urban schools. Participants included 11 senior early childhood education preservice teachers at a historically Black college in the southeast region of the United States. The study was…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Middle Class, Social Class
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite popular beliefs about social mobility in American society, research consistently shows that inequalities are reproduced across generations. And yet, while social reproduction hinges on the transmission of advantages from parents to children, scholars take for granted children's role in this process. We do not know whether children…
Descriptors: Social Class, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Working Class
Padilla, Hoang-Thuy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study addresses racial segregation in schools by examining the self-selecting patterns of middle class Asian immigrant parents in a public non-charter school district who enrolled their children in specialized academic programs. This phenomenological study focused on the educational history and the decision-making process of school choice in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Immigrants, School Choice, Middle Class
Levey, Hilary Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, travelling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. What explains the increase in…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Competition, Child Rearing, Employed Parents
Sredl, Katherine Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Consumer emotions are rarely examined from a phenomenological perspective, with few exceptions. Moreover, consumer pride is overlooked as an influence on the marketplace practices of consumers. In spite of the lack of theoretical development on consumer pride, it clearly drives consumption: take, for instance, consumers who use goods to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Psychology, Phenomenology, Consumer Economics
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