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Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
(2014-07-17)
Central High School, the oldest high school in Kansas City, serves as an example of how radically education in Kansas City, Missouri, has changed over the course of the last 150 years. Beginning as part of Kansas City, ...
Using Visual Thinking Strategies to Improve Mathematics Instruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
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 ...
Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
(2023)
of the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire to modern-day Türkiye; (2) to examine the juxtaposition of the Gülen movement philosophy on the pedagogical practice of Hizmet educators; and (3) to connect the stories of Hizmet educators, now teaching in the United...
Elementary principals as developers vs. deliverers of district instructional decisions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-13)
The purpose of this heuristic case study, also informed through the tradition of critical systems theory was to explore elementary principals‟ “voices” in instructional decisions made by central office administrators at a ...
The power of teacher-student relationships in determining student success
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-11)
The purpose of this ethnomethodological exploratory descriptive case study was to
investigate and understand teacher perceptions of the relationships between teachers and
students and how those teachers perceive relationships ...
Education For All: A Descriptive Case Study of the Educational Experiences of First-Generation College Graduates
(2015-06-19)
Postsecondary entrance and graduation is commonplace in the modern world, yet many students still do not attend or complete their degrees. Students who do not have a familial connection to an institution of higher learning ...