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Browsing by Subject "public policy"
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Cajun, Créole, et CODOFIL : La politique et la planification linguistique en Louisiane
(2023-04-08)Today, linguists consider there to be two varieties of French in Louisiana: Louisiana French (Cajun) and Louisiana Creole. Both of these languages are classified as endangered, with a continually declining population of ... -
Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
(2018)This dissertation shows how an array of policymakers, invested in uprooting an unequal political economy descended from the plantation system and Jim Crow, gravitated to education as a centerpiece of development strategy, ... -
Employer Perspectives on Former Offenders: An Analysis of How a Criminal Record Impacts the Hiring Decisions of Durham-Based Employers
(2018-04-20)How does a criminal record affect the hiring decisions of Durham-based employers? What, if any, services or incentives might increase the likelihood of these employers hiring former offenders? Roughly 700 individuals return ... -
School District Student Assignment and Reassignment Policies
(2013)This dissertation examines the interplay between school district assignment and reassignment policies and the elementary public school parents select for their children. The sample in all chapters includes the third and ... -
What Is The Relationship Between Racial Housing Wealth Disparities and Violence In Cities?
(2017-09-18)Much empirical literature analyzing crime and violence omits an important theoretical “fundamental cause”: an underlying mechanism that might drive both the analysis’s proposed explanatory factors and outcome phenomena of ...
