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Institutional influences affecting the college-going decisions of low-income mothers attending a rural midwestern community college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Education has proven one path out of poverty for low-income single mothers, yet many are not completing and transferring at high rates. Using theories of economic development as the lens for analysis, I sought to study how ...
Socio-cultural and school barriers that Latino Spanish-speaking and Mixteco-speaking families with a preschool child with autism experienced in the special education referral process in Santa Barbara County, California
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
According to multiple studies, a referral process bias exists in the early identification of autism for children of color, in particular Latino children. Sociocultural, economic, educational, and health care barriers have ...
Missouri higher education reform : moving up on the public policy agenda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study identifies and examines 14 contributing factors that, taken together, caused reform of public higher education governance to move up on the ...