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The relationship between leadership style and student achievement in high poverty, low funded schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] School administrators face several challenges ranging from opposing stakeholders, to frequent deadlines, to the pressures of No Child Left Behind. The ...
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 ...
Art experiences in Waldorf education : graduates' meaning making reflections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The purpose of this study was to implement a descriptive inquiry about the nature of art experiences in Waldorf Education through the lens of Waldorf graduates' reflections. This qualitative study sought to gain insight ...
The effectiveness of a targeted Title I pre-kindergarten program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The focus of measure for this study was on readiness of children who attended a targeted Title I pre-kindergarten class a year prior to entering kindergarten. The purpose was to investigate the achievement in the areas of ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
experiences, these plays and stories help to flesh out what it means to be moving beyond an “Other” status for the LGBTQIA community....
The effects of a culturally responsive professional development series on the attitudes and beliefs of teachers of diverse students in a Missouri suburban school district
(2013)
were also aspects that would be powerful for the other participants. Creating community by engaging in authentic, honest conversations regarding White Dominance and race and having opportunities to reflect and put into practice what they were learning...
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 ...
Collateral damage: anti-communism & U.S. cultural policy
(2014-07-28)
The United States of America has never formally declared a cultural policy nor
established a Cabinet-level department of cultural affairs, as many other nations have in the post-World War II era--depriving the American ...
No Place Like Home
(2015-06-02)
This collection of stories portrays a variety of lives dealing the aftereffects of loss. In “Robert the
Lionheart” a boy seeks the DNA of his parents to recreate them and struggles with what that
might mean. In “Weeds” ...
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, ...
Preservice teacher beliefs about education from their experiences as K-12 students and members of an adolescent subculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
of recycling beliefs about education through preservice teachers back to K-12 students is presented that illustrates how emerging adolescent beliefs may enter and how older, outdated beliefs are maintained within education culture. Implications for practice...
Bioinformatics methods for protein identification using peptide mass fingerprinting data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
scoring function development: we developed the Probability Based Scoring Function (PBSF) which is used to quantify the degree of match between PMF data and candidate protein. The derived score is used to rank the protein and predict the identification. (2...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
that motivated irrigationists. Both the river improvement and irrigation causes, however, proved fractious and parochial. Newlands was a practical politician. In reclamation, he found a mechanism to bring irrigation and river control under coordinated government...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)
By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he
called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans
had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ...