Dissertations from 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker
Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras
Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
Coalition and Creativity on the Bridges and Fringes with Immigrant Student-Contributors in Nonprofit Adult Education, Katherine E. Entigar
The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond, Kashema Hutchinson
Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova
Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin
A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum
Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham
Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
Dissertations from 2020
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness, AnaMaria Correa
Positioning and Repositioning: Transnational Identity (Re) Construction and (Re) Negotiation by American-Senegalese Children, Aminata Diop
A Teacher Educator's Narrative Journey into Mindfulness, Al-Karim H. Gangji
Modeling Where it Matters: Redesigning Mathematics Education with Adolescent Girls of Color, Kara L. Imm
Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke
A Quantitative Examination of Black and Hispanic Students’ Time-to-Graduation, Ferdinand A. Verley II
Dissertations from 2019
Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite
A Space to Learn, Amy R. Goods
Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins
Teaching for Whose America?: Corporate Education Reform and Students Labeled as Disabled, Barbara A. Hubert
Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez
Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk
Transforming Through Power: Teachers and the Negotiation of Authority in Schools, Madhu Narayanan
A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson
Dissertations from 2018
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Exacerbating Inequality: Public Schooling in the Era of Neoliberal Standardization, Johanna Panetti Barnhart
Finding Light in the Caves: Achieving Professional and Personal Bliss on a Journey in Cheeseworld, Mitchell Bleier
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Cioe Peña
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner
The Tuskegee Revolt: Student Activism, Black Power, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington, Brian P. Jones
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
Development and Transfer of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Special Education Teachers, Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community, Angelica Ortega
Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Dissertations from 2017
The Racial Politics of Elementary School Choice for Black Parents Living in Brooklyn, NY, Shannon N. Allen
Using Video in a Collaborative Teacher Team Within a Special Education School: A Case Study, Belinda Akua-Kisiwaa Amoako
Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, and Praxis in NYC Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile
The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro
Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo
Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners, Marie L. Cerat
Enhancing and Evaluating Scientific Argumentation in the Inquiry-Oriented College Chemistry Classroom, Annabel D'Souza
Escribiendo para desahogarme: Release and Resistance in a Middle School Bilingual Writing Workshop, Carla Espana
Seeing and Being Seen: A Multimodal Inquiry of Multilingual High School Newcomers and Their Contributions to Educational Communities, Ivana Espinet
Translanguaging Practices for Educational Equity: Moments in a Bilingual Middle School Classroom, Luz Y. Herrera
Networked: New York City’s Charter Schools and the New Profiteers, Christina Johnson
The Impact of Teacher Perception of Professional Learning Communities on Student Algebraic Achievement, Tyrone John
Perspectives on Emotional Climate Associated with Classroom Interactions, Hiro Komatsubara
Dominance & Survivance: Urban Latino Communities and Education in Racial Neoliberal Urbanism, Edwin Mayorga
Critical Play: Agency, Interdependency, and Intersectionality in an Early Childhood Classroom, Maria Persons
Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler
“Just Get it Done”: How the New York City High School Admissions Process is Re-defining the Work & Identities of Professionals in Screened High School-Programs, Heather Rippeteau
University Education for the Creation of the Black Middle Class: Kigali, Rwanda, Chrystina L. Russell
"Resisting from Within": (Re)imagining a Critical Translingual English Classroom, Kate Anna Seltzer
Labeling Histories: Mental Disability in American Schooling, Kylah Torre
Dissertations from 2016
Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Character Building Initiatives at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound High School, Adeola A. Alexander
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction in an RtI Framework: Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in the Secondary Classroom, Lisa Auslander
Critical Youth Participatory Action Research to Reimagine Environmental Education with Youth in Urban Environments, Marissa E. Bellino
Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders' Science Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Donahue
Centralized, Decentralized, Distributed: Disruptive Technology in Distance Education from "Sunrise Semester" to Present-Day MOOCs, Rosanna Flouty
The Consequences of the State Implementation of a Nationally Standardized Teacher Performance Assessment as a Certification Requirement: A Mixed Methods Study, Deborah Greenblatt
Bilingual Latino Middle Schoolers on Languaging and Racialization in the US, Sarah Hesson
What Factors Influence Urban School Leaders Arts Programming Decisions, Jennifer Katona
Understanding School and Interethnic Relations of Mexican Immigrant Youth in a Post-Industrial Community, Roberto Martinez
“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype, Rondi Silva
Schooling the Market: Venture Philanthropy, Field Building and the NewSchools Venture Fund, Gregory E. Tewksbury
An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics, David Walters Jr.
Coalescence of Research: Urban Advantage as a Learning Organization Structured to Support a Culture of Inquiry, Marianne Williams
Educational Histories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth: From Countries of Origin to the United States, Joanna Yip
Dissertations from 2015
Imagining What Could Be: The Role of Youth Leadership in Realizing College for All, Tara Bahl
Choosing To Learn In Two Languages: Why Non-Latino, English-Speaking Families Select Spanish/english Dual Language Bilingual Programs, Kathryn Louise Carpenter
Growing Up Online: Identity, Development and Agency in Networked Girlhoods, Claire M. Fontaine
Beyond Information: College Choice as a Literacy Practice, Jeremy Samuel Greenfield
What's "Black" Got to Do With It: An Analysis of Low-Income Black Students and Educational Outcomes, Derrick E. Griffith