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Avoiding the Gaze of the Test: High Stakes Literacy Policy Implementation
(Texas Education Review, 2017)This qualitative embedded case study documents the policy implementation of literacy assessment in a Texas urban high school, using Foucault’s theory of the panopticon to understand how teaching and learning were shaped ... -
Understanding the Role of Teacher Decision-Making in Voluntary Teacher Turnover: A Review
(Texas Education Review, 2017)Education leaders and researchers have long called attention to high rates of teacher turnover in U.S. public schools. Teacher voice in school-level decisions is one factor widely linked to improved teacher retention. ... -
Arizona’s Rising STEM Occupational Demands and Declining Participation in the Scientific Workforce: An Examination of Attitudes among African Americans toward STEM College Majors and Careers
(Texas Education Review, 2017)According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008), science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations constitute a growing sector of Arizona’s economy. However, the number of African Americans earning degrees ... -
Integration and the Achievement Gap: Innovation in Dallas, Texas
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Reflecting on Modern Public-School Teacher Experience: An Overview of Select Challenges Facing the Educator Workforce with an Emphasis on Teachers of Color
(Texas Education Review, 2017)New demographic research shows that the school-aged population in the U.S. is rapidly diversifying in terms of student racial and ethnic identity. However, as the educator workforce also diversifies, teachers of color are ... -
False Binaries: Recentering South Asian Identity for Healing
(Texas Education Review, 2017)Many thoughts emerge attempting to define South Asian, Asian, Desi, or Indian. One approach refers to a country, the other cultural norms, and yet another, a racial and ethnic category far too vast. For the sake of this ... -
Lions, Tigers, and South Asian Greeks: Oh, My! The Opportunity for More Research!
(Texas Education Review, 2017)Within colleges and universities, fraternities and sororities face many of the same issues affecting the larger society. Each university fraternity and sorority community is a microcosm of the campus community in that the ... -
Emerging Considerations for Diversity Education of South Asian American Students
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South Asian Americans in Higher Education: Background and Future Directions
(Texas Education Review, 2017)South Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. Though research has broadly attended to Asian Americans as an aggregate racial or ethnic group, calls to specify the complex experiences ... -
An Overview of the Issues in Evaluating Special Educators: Current Challenges and Recent Developments
(2016)Teachers have always been evaluated in some way; yet, current roles in the classroom have shifted to more scientific and data based approaches to teacher evaluation. These specialized approaches to teaching and evaluation ... -
Teacher Evaluations in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field
(2016)National policy mandates have placed greater accountability on districts and schools to improve the outcomes of every student, including students with disabilities. Teacher evaluation systems that accurately identify ... -
Preparing 21st Century Special Educators: An Overview of Challenges and Opportunities
(2016)With a wide array of teacher education and preparation programs, it is important that all educators are effectively prepared to meet the needs of all children. This is especially true for students with disabilities whose ... -
Student as Value Based Product: Reconceptualizing the Subjective Nature of Education
(2015)In this paper we consider how students are positioned in school classrooms and the effect positioning has on their ontological and social development. The creation of a powersanctioned objective reality, we argue, pervades ...
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