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Author:: Taylor, Catherine Freiday
Title:: Conceptions of Time and Competing Priorities in the Principalship: The Challenge of Staying Focused on Learning
Graduate Program:: Educational Leadership
Keywords:: Pennsylvania
No Child Left Behind legislation
New principals
Leadership in education
Instructional leadership
Instruction
Expectations
Email
Elementary schools
Elementary principal
Education
Decision making
Curriculum and instruction
Conceptions of time
Best interests
Availability or absence of time
Assessment results
Administration of schools
Achievement
Accountability in education
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment
Principal
Priorities
Qualitative research
Rural schools
Students
Student learning
Suburban schools
Technology
Time
Time management
Teachers
Theories and principles
Urban schools
File:: Download CFTaylor-Dissertation-ThesisOffice.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul T Begley, Professor Of Education, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan C Faircloth, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member

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Author:: Kephart, Eugene Merrell
Title:: Relationships between Parental Involvement and Child Development Outcomes in Head Start
Graduate Program:: Educational Administration
Keywords:: Head Start
Parent Involvement
Education
File:: Download Eugene_Kephart_Final_Paper_11-19-07.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Leroy French, Committee Member
William Hartman, Committee Member
Susan C Faircloth, Committee Member
John W Tippeconnic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Schaub, Mimi
Title:: Parenting Cognitive Development: The Institutional Effects of Mass Education on the Social Construction of Parenting and Childhood
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: Childhood
Parenting
Education
File:: Download whotabfig.doc.pdf
Committee Members:: John David Mccarthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sean Reardon, Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Member
John Kramer, Committee Member

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Author:: Nieto-Montenegro, Sergio
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF PILOT FOOD SAFETY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR HISPANIC WORKERS IN THE MUSHROOM INDUSTRY USING THE HEALTH ACTION MODEL
Graduate Program:: Food Science
Keywords:: Mushroom
Hispanic
Handwashing
Observation
Theory
Produce Safety
Education
Food Safety
File:: Download Thesis_Sergio.pdf
Committee Members:: Juanita Lynne Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luke F Laborde, Committee Member
Catherine Nettles Cutter, Committee Member
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member

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Author:: Chandrasekhar, S
Title:: Essays in Development Economics
Graduate Program:: Economics
Keywords:: Public Projects
Water
Sanitation
Education
File:: Download etdthesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Priyanka Pandey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Shapiro, Committee Member
Jill Leslie Findeis, Committee Member

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Author:: Haas, Beth Ann
Title:: The CTE Teacher Selection and Hiring Decision: Practices and Perceptions from Select Pennsylvania Directors
Graduate Program:: Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:: CTE Teacher
Structured Interview
Education
Career and Technical Education
Hiring and CTE Teacher
Structured Interview
Education
Career and Technical Education
Hiring and Selection
File:: Download Beth_Ann_Haas_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Judith Ann Kolb, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Clark, Committee Member
Richard Allen Walter, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

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Author:: Cundiff, Patrick Ryan
Title:: Great Expectations Unmet: The Impact of Adolescent Educational Expectations on Deviant Behavior During the Transition to Adulthood
Graduate Program:: Crime, Law and Justice
Keywords:: Adolescent Expectations
Education
Deviance
Strain
File:: Download Dissertation_Draft-Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeremy Staff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Staff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Special Member

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Author:: Roccamo, Ashley Lynne
Title:: Comparing the Success of Pronunciation Instruction in Beginner and Intermediate German Language Classrooms
Graduate Program:: German
Keywords:: German
Linguistics
Education
L2 Pronunciation
Second Language Acquisition
Phonology
Accent
File:: Download Roccamo_Dissertation_FINAL_Apr_2014.pdf
Committee Members:: Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Dr Mary O'brien, Special Member

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Author:: Smith , Emily Grace
Title:: The Power of the Written Word: Three Essays on Schooling, Literacy, and Health in sub-saharan Africa
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: Literacy
Schooling
Health
Africa
Education
Child Survival
Women
File:: Download SmithGreenaway_Dissertation_June2014_Submitted.pdf
Committee Members:: Jenny Trinitapoli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member
Kevin J Thomas, Committee Member
David P Baker, Special Member

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Author:: Salinas, Daniel R
Title:: Educational Expansion, School Sector and Social Stratification: Changing Mechanisms of Educational Inequality in Latin America
Graduate Program:: Educational Theory and Policy
Keywords:: Education
school expansion
inequality
Chile
Mexico
Private schools
stratification
File:: Download Salinas__2014__PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Soo Yong Byun, Committee Member
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member

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