Latinx students are enrolling in four-year higher education institutions (HEIs) at a rapidly increasing rate. However, an alarmingly low number complete their degrees. Institutional barriers such as racism, language ...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the challenges encountered by Mexican-American females and how they address those challenges in order to successfully complete a bachelor’s degree. Mexican-American ...

In recent years, the American public has offered growing acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities, as evidenced by the legalization of same sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015), the ...

This correlational research study examined the effects of mandatory advising on the retention and persistence of African American and Latinx male community college students who attended an urban community college in ...

This quantitative study examines students’ survey responses as they begin the transition from high school into and through their initial year of college then to completion of a four-year college degree, to explore ...

School counselors are uniquely positioned to mitigate gaps in opportunity, achievement, and attainment for culturally and linguistically diverse students. However, culturally responsive school counseling is a relatively ...

As the need for Physician Assistants (PAs) increases in the United States, education programs have a responsibility to graduate competent providers to help fill the nation’s healthcare workforce needs. To do this, PA ...

The intended purpose of this heuristic, narratological, descriptive case study is to capture the individual experiences of a group of urban high school students as they pertain to literacy developmental opportunities. ...

The purpose of this social constructivist narrative study is to understand the thoughts, perceptions and experiences of urban K-8 educational professionals regarding education for globalization. The goal of this study ...

Over 65,000 undocumented immigrant high school students graduate each year, and many have strong aspirations to continue into a post-secondary institution (Drachman, 2006; Perez, 2010). However, less than 13,000 are ...

The purpose of this heuristic case study was to describe the professional development experiences of kindergarten to fifth grades teachers that participated on a mathematics action research team and represented five ...

The “school readiness gap” has been attributed to differences in family life, home school connections, and social inequalities. The current school-parent partnership model fails to acknowledge the ways in which parent ...

The purpose of this qualitative, heuristic study was to explore the experiences of African American women staff in higher education. Specifically, the emphasis was on staff at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) ...

School accountability is increasing with federal mandates. As public schools investigate strategies to raise students’ achievement scores and graduation rates, some have implemented a modified school calendar. Schools ...

There is no question that we live in a global society. The ability to compete successfully in the global marketplace is a fact facing our world today as it never has before. American education must prepare students ...

Improved academic performance, among many other factors, has been linked in the research to parental involvement. Unfortunately, many view African-American parents as uninvolved because of the activities in which they ...

The purpose of this narratological heuristic multiple case study is to describe the specific components that teachers need in both their knowledge and skills to meet the individual needs of their students in a blended ...

The purpose of the study was to explore the use of Visual Thinking Strategies as it applied to mathematics instruction for teachers in a small, urban elementary school containing grades 1-6 in a large Midwestern ...

There has been considerable debate in community colleges over the last forty years regarding the impact of increased use of part-time faculty (PTF) on student learning. It has been argued that part-time faculty fail to ...