More than 22% of youth in the United States will receive a mental health diagnosis before their 18th birthday (Beers & Joshi, 2020). In a world of public health emergencies and disasters, mental health services for youth are paramount to emergency preparedness, resilience and response, and...
Abstract of DissertationResponses to Vignettes About Students with Chronic Pain in K-12 Public Schools
Provided by Current Principals and Assistant Principals
This dissertation study addresses a gap in the literature in K-12 public
education regarding students who experience chronic pain (CP)....
Existing literature examining workplace incivility in the healthcare setting does not address the experiences of emergency medicine physician assistants (EMPAs) as separate and unique from the experiences of other non-physician members of the emergency medicine healthcare team. The physician...
Science instruction in elementary schools can be poorly defined, of low status, and taught by teachers with inadequate subject knowledge (Shulman, 2015). This confusion can lead to low teacher confidence, morale, and professional dissatisfaction which may contribute to high attrition rates and...
To counter threats to national security within an increasingly complex and unstable global arena, the Intelligence Community (IC) requires a highly skilled workforce with diversity at all organizational levels. African American women, a historically marginalized group within the IC, are...
This critical participatory ethnographic study examines the negotiation of civic identity by urban Indigenous students in public high school social studies classes, a Native youth council, and the civic environment of a school in Washington State, where the Since Time Immemorial curriculum is...
This qualitative study was a means to identify what motivated Black students to serve in the supplemental instruction (SI) leader role, the challenges they experienced, and what they learned while serving in the peer educator role within the context of an historically Black college or university...
This study investigates the reading and studying of Arabic literature in U.S. collegiate education as a site for engagement with alterity. The purpose is to explore how students in foreign language (FL) literature courses encounter alterity, how they construct the other and reconstruct themselves...
The purpose of the study was to explore how working professionals enrolled in MBA programs make their education relevant. This inquiry was guided by the following central research question: How do students enrolled in MBA programs make their education relevant as they cross boundaries between...
As state appropriations, once the primary public source of funding for higher education, have decreased, higher education institutions have attempted to increase the private funding they can generate in addition to increasing tuition. This shift from public to private sources of funding for...