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Author:

Duncan, Angela Lydia

Title:

Assessing the Impact of Legal Issues on Private Boarding Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

boarding schools
law
ethics
decision-making
turbulence theory
independent schools

File:

Download A_Duncan-_final_submission_to_thesis_office.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Preston Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Preston Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Member
Daniel Robert Cahoy, Committee Member

Author:

Baker, Betsy A.

Title:

The Role of Institution, Ideology, Interests, and Information in the Decision to Departmentalize in Elementary Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

departmentalize
horizontal organization
self-contained
elementary
departmentalization
elementary departmentalization

File:

Download BetsyABakerDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nona Ann Prestine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Preston Green, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member

Author:

Dady, Jr., Kenneth James

Title:

MEASURES OF WEALTH IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

wealth measures
funding education
aid ratios
funding formulas
equity in funding schools
adequacy in funding schools

File:

Download MoW_Dissertation_Final_PDF.pdf

Committee Members:

William Hartman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Hartman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Preston Green, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Potter, Robert Lance

Title:

A Legal Analysis of the Legitimate Pedagogical Interest of Teaching Alternatives to Evolution in Public Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

evolution
intelligent design
creationism
teaching science
public school
Establishment Clause
freedom of speech

File:

Download R_L_Potter.pdf

Committee Members:

Preston Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Murphy, Mark Patrick

Title:

Exploring support for the extracurriculum in a time of fiscal constraint and standards-based reform: A case study of one Pennsylvania school district

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

U.S. public schools
extracurriculum
extracurricular programs
financial crisis
economic recession
standards-based reform
decision-making process
co-curricular
case study
Pennsylvania school district

File:

Download Final_ETD_Murphy_3.19.12.pdf

Committee Members:

Preston Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Preston Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Keun Jin

Title:

The effectiveness of school type on students' academic achievement: Focusing on private high school of South Korea

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

school effect
private school
foreign language high school
OLS regression
propensity score matching

File:

Download Dissertation-Keun_Jin_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Preston Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Preston Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Gerald K Letendre, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Steven Leonice

Title:

Balancing School Choice and Political Voice: An Analysis of the Legality of Public Charter Schools in New Orleans, Louisiana Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Charter Schools
School Reform
Voting Rights
Minority Students
School Boards
Representation
Appointed School Boards

File:

Download Steven_Nelson_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Erica Frankenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Preston Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Alexander Gamson, Committee Member
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member