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
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Coie Peña
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
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
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
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
Courage to Speak, Fortitude to Listen: A Model for the Study of First-Person LD Narratives, Charles Christian Haitz
View from the front gate: A comparative study of NYC Schools from a college admissions perspective, Sharon Hardy
To be or not to be a Math Person: Math Identity Dissonance in Ninth Grade Students, Noah Samuel Heller
Participatory Action Research As Professional Development In Multicultural Education: What Are The Effects On A Staff In A New York City Public School?, Jimmy Ivan Kalamaras
Middle School Girls in Postfeminist Times, Susan McCullough
A Review Of Teacher Preparation In New York City: Through An Analysis Of The Teacher Academy, Naomi Uchechuwku Nwosu
The Ecology of School Readiness, Miriam Beth Tager
Where's the Staying Power? Factors Influencing Dropping Out Among Black Students, Judy Touzin
Children First Reforms, Fair Student Funding and the Displacement of Accountability in the New York City Department of Education, Daniel Voloch
Educating Desire: Auto/bio/graphical impressions of addiction in/and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Peter Waldman
An Exploratory Study Of The Role Of Cooperating Teachers In Preparing Teacher Candidates For Academic Success With Students Of Color In High-Need Schools, Audra Michelle Watson
Dissertations from 2014
Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970, Jeremy Paul Benson
Transformative Science Education Through Action Research And Self-Study Practices, Olga Calderon
From the BX to a BA: Latino Male Students and the Transition from High School to College, Alejandro Eduardo Carrion
Science Identity Transformations Through Place-Based Teaching And Learning In The Natural World, Amy DeFelice
I Hope I Don't See You Tomorrow: A Phenomenological Ethnography Of The Passages Academy School Program, Lee Adam Gabay
Teachers at Work: Factors Influencing Satisfaction, Retention and the Professional Well-Being of Elementary and Secondary Educators, Patrick Edward O'Reilly
Promoting Wellness Through Mindfulness-Based Activities, Malgorzata Powietrzynska
On Becoming a Teacher (or Not): Students of Color's Perceptions of Teachers' Work, Consideration of Teaching as a Career, and Implications for Diversifying the Teaching Force, Amanda Lee Winkelsas
Adding Students' Voices to the Discourse on Effective Teaching, Jennie H. Yi
Dissertations from 2013
Teachers Working with Families: Natural Enemies or Necessary Allies?, Kirsten Cole
Are Black Girls the New Number Runners? An Analysis of Black Girls and High School Mathematics, Carolyn Denise King
Dissertations from 2012
Beyond the Scores: Mathematics Identities of African American and Hispanic Fifth Graders in an Urban Elementary Community School, Paula Jenniver Fleshman
Dissertations from 2011
Education Policy and the Mathematics Curriculum in New York City Middle Schools, 1958 to 2002, Joseph Valley
Education Policy and the Mathematics Curriculum in New York City Middle Schools, 1958 to 2002, Joseph Valley
Dissertations from 2010
Teaching Style: An Investigation of New York City Public High School Teacher Dress Practices, Anne J. Brownstein
Stability and Change in New York State Regents Mathematics Examinations, 1866-2009: A Socio-Historical Analysis, Robert Stephen Watson
Dissertations from 2009
Navigating the Gaze: Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces at School, Patricia Krueger
Resisting Regulation: LGBTQ Teens and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender in High Schools, Darla Linville
Dissertations from 2008
Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant, Benjamin Enoma