In an era of globalized education policy, the problems of equitably funding public schools have universal relevance. Critical Resource Theory (CReT), a conceptual extension of Critical Theory (CT), uses data generated from quantitative analyses of public funding to inform policy and produce more equitable resources and outcomes for low-wealth…

Successful higher education systems are student centered and constantly improving. They also are committed to addressing long-standing policies, perspectives, and practices that--intentionally or not--marginalize Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and/or People of Color (BILPOC) students, students from under-resourced families, and others who were not…

Arab Muslim students continue to face various forms of islamophobia on campus despite efforts from the college to make campus more welcoming and inclusive. As Muslim students express concern about the rise of islamophobia on campus and bigoted rhetoric on social media, college leaders, administration, and faculty have an imperative role to play in…

The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological qualitative research study was to solicit the perceptions of currently attending as well as recent graduate minority male students of one Texas private, postsecondary institution regarding the identification of academic, social, financial, and moral support programs considered to be most…

This dissertation thesis examines the lived experiences, life stories, and storytelling of five Afro-Caribbean and Latina people, who are all local from the borough of Queens, alumni of New York City's public schools, and since then, became their local public school teachers, classroom practitioners, and local community teachers. We refer to this…

Despite the high prevalence and associated consequences of mental health problems in youth, adolescents with these problems are often left untreated. This service gap is even greater in racial and ethnic minority youth who not only engage in treatment less frequently, but also experience far greater discrimination and systemic inequality than…

The presented study reconstructs how the concept of the total united Sudeten German National Community (sudetendeutsche totale einheitliche Volksgemeinschaft) was formed in the national conservative youth camp (i.e., among the bourgeois, rural and Catholic German youth in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period). Although this goal was repeated and…

Understanding the pregnancy experiences of racial and ethnic minority women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is critical to ensuring that policies can effectively support these women. This research analyzed data from the 1998-2013 Massachusetts Pregnancy to Early Life Longitudinal (PELL) data system to examine the racial and…

The authors compare a sample of students enrolled in business classes from 2005 to 2007 with a 2017-2018 sample of business students in terms of their attitudes toward group projects. The two cohorts of students are classified as Millennials, those born before 1995, and Generation Z, those born in or after 1995. Our analyses demonstrate…

Objectives: To estimate individual and group trajectories of substance use among heterosexual and sexual minority adolescent females (SMFs) and evaluate longitudinal substance use disparities. Methods: Annual self-reported substance use data (frequency of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use) across ages 13-20 years were used to estimate…

Spirit murdering in the academy is pervasive and the impacts on racially minoritized populations are far-reaching and lasting. As Love (2016) notes, spirit murdering is built upon an academic culture that openly embraces racism, at the expense of the minds, bodies, and souls of racially minoritized faculty and students. Over time the spirits,…

The Indonesian Ministry of Education has re-examined the Indonesian curriculum to address the present challenges, including how to promote tolerance in students who live in a multicultural country. Textbooks and characters presented in Indonesian elementary textbooks, Buku Siswa, are part of continuous revision. However, there is insufficient…

School tours are an integral part of museum education programming and often account for a large percent of museum audience attendance. While student demographics have changed over the last century, the demographics of museum educators, particularly those leading K-12 tours has remained predominately White. Though this is common knowledge across…

Amid the increasing popularity of task-based language teaching, task motivation is considered one of the keys to success, but motivational influence among learners has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of motivation contagion in language learning pair work. Specifically, it…

Vietnam has achieved near-universal access to compulsory schooling over the past two decades. However, inequalities between ethnic majority and minority students are stark at post-compulsory levels, where progression is selective based on academic criteria and ability to pay. In this article, we adopt a mixed-methods approach to examine quality…