Browsing by Subject "Education"
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A Defense of the Role of History in Education Through the Analysis of the Chilean School Curriculum
(2017-01-17)In 2010, the Chilean Government tried to cut the school hours per week of social sciences in the 5th to 10th grade school curriculum in order to increase the hours of language (Spanish) and mathematics. This reform tried ... -
A Guide to Sustainable Development Down East
(2007-05)Coastal North Carolina is facing a crisis. Small towns up and down the coast are facing development pressures, population booms, environmental degradation, and loss of the working waterfront and traditional cultures. The ... -
An Analysis of How Housing Incentives Can Reduce Teacher Attrition in North Carolina
(2020-05)Background North Carolina, and the entire United States, is in the midst of a teacher shortage. The teacher shortage is caused by two main factors: not enough teachers are joining the profession and too many teachers are ... -
Assessing the competency needs in the Green Technology Industry
(2011-04-29)This study reviews the technical and interpersonal competencies of professionals in the Green Technology industry. This industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in Europe. This growth trend is expected to continue ... -
Attempting Education Reform through the Courts: The Inefficacy of Abbott V Court-Mandated Funding Reallocation and Reforms in Underperforming School Districts in New Jersey
(2010-12)This research project analyzes the effects of the 1998 Abbott V New Jersey Supreme Court decision on student achievement in the state’s underperforming Abbott districts. The Court mandated the reallocation of the districts’ ... -
Between Optimism and Precarity: Unravel the Intersectional Challenges of Chinese Female Immigrant Teachers in the United States
(2023)This thesis investigates the work and life experiences of an under-discussed and female-dominant Chinese diasporic community, Chinese immigrant teachers in American K12 education. I argue that, firstly, while being privileged ... -
Body Image, Ballet Pedagogy, & Flow/Yu: Pedagogical Recommendations to Mitigate Self-Objectification & Choreographic Processes to Move Towards Embodied States of Flow & Yu
(2021)Objectification theory, as delineated by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, posits that women are trained to view themselves as visual objects for consumption. The related term, self-objectification, describes ... -
Bumblebee Pollination in Central North Carolina: Conservation Through Land Management and Education
(2012-04-27)For the first time, Bombus pollination activity was studied from a land management perspective using field surveys on managed properties in the Uwharries region of central North Carolina. Summer bumblebee populations were ... -
Consensus development of a pediatric emergency medicine clerkship curriculum.
(West J Emerg Med, 2014-09)INTRODUCTION: As emergency medicine (EM) has become a more prominent feature in the clinical years of medical school training, national EM clerkship curricula have been published to address the need to standardize students' ... -
Creativity and Depth in Open-Ended Projects
(2019-05-01)Programming is an essential component of a growing number of introductory statistics courses. Many introductory statistics courses use R to put concepts introduced in the course into practice, and these courses often serve ... -
Developmental Pathways in Underachievement
(2012)Despite decades of research attention given to academic underachievement, longitudinal and developmental investigation of this phenomenon has been sparse. To address this shortcoming, the current study used a longitudinal, ... -
Educational differences in the compression of disability incidence in the United States.
(SSM - population health, 2019-04)<h4>Objective</h4>To examine educational differences in the compression of disability incidence in the United States.<h4>Method</h4>We use the Health and Retirement Study and techniques of microsimulation and bootstrap to ... -
Embodied Resonance: Using Movement Based Practice to Critically Engage Black Girlhood and K-12 Public Education
(2022)In the United States children spend anywhere from nine to thirteen years in school. During this time, children experience some of their most developmentally formative years of their life, which is often characterized as ... -
Endangered Caribbean Sea Turtles: An Educator’s Handbook
(2005)This project was undertaken as a part of the mission of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), which is now housed at the Duke Nicholas School’s Marine Lab. The Handbook is inseparable from its context ... -
Essays in Education and Politics
(2013)This dissertation explores three topics relating to education and politics. The first chapter examines gender gaps in test scores among top-scoring students. Recent research by Pope and Sydnor (2010) and Nosek et al. (2008) ... -
Essays on Human Capital in Bangladesh
(2019)Health and education are important determinants of economic success and general wellbeing both at the individual and macro levels. Yet individuals often do not appear to invest in these forms of human capital at ... -
Essays on the Impact of School Accountability
(2011)Comprised of three related chapters, this dissertation evaluates the effects of the North Carolina School Accountability System on agents in different markets using, in most part, school data provided by the North Carolina ... -
Essays on the Structural and Cultural Determinants of Youths' Postsecondary Educational Outcomes
(2020)Examining how structural and cultural factors shape postsecondary educational outcomes is at the heart of sociological research in education. However, although there has been a rich history in exploring these sociological ... -
EXHIBIT DESIGN AT THE GASKIN MUSEUM OF MARINE LIFE, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
(2003)Public outreach and education can effectively improve human behavior toward the natural environment. While communication between the scientific community and the general public is often challenging, scientists can bring ... -
Expanding alternative energy in North Carolina: A tool for educating the public
(2007-05)Interest in improving energy efficiency and expanding renewable energy are gaining momentum around the country and North Carolina is no exception. The state legislature is currently considering several bills to encourage ...
