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Samantha Ravens – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This policy analysis examined the intersection of a statistical model and locus of control to recommend an accountability model that best upholds the criteria of equity, efficacy, and impact on student learning for Missouri schools. Using Eugene Bardach's eightfold path and informed by the quality education in schools framework, this analysis…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, State School District Relationship, State Policy
Kristie Beck – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The immigration process in the United States has undergone constant changes and evolutions, each with its own rules, regulations, protocols, nuances, and consequences. Keeping track of those changes is a challenge for even the legislators who are charged with regulating and monitoring it. Undocumented students, who have arrived here under many…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Counselors, Undocumented Immigrants, Public Policy
Lyndsey Strahan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This case study used qualitative research methods to examine the role faculty play in the application of a general education policy mandate in the state of Missouri. Senate bill 997 required that general education be transferable between all public colleges and universities in the state. To aid in this endeavor, a committee made of faculty…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Teacher Role, Faculty, Curriculum Implementation
Kirsten Clinton – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this dissertation, I explore inequalities in higher education and at the intersection of higher education and the labor market. Chapter 1 explores the employment effects of strengthening anti-discrimination laws for minority workers in the context of two recent changes to the Missouri Humans Rights Act. First, I use data from Missouri's circuit…
Descriptors: Labor, Economics, Labor Force, Higher Education
Arnold, Jill Mayes – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Due to No Child Left Behind legislation, state education officials are increasing programs and funding for early childhood interventions. Missouri's Parents as Teachers Program (PAT) is one such program that works to increase students' academic achievement in school and on standardized tests. This study explored one Missouri school district's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Standardized Tests
Mueller, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine perceptions of state legislators regarding funding of public higher education in the State of Missouri. To this end, I sought to determine how Missouri legislators perceive the purpose of higher education and the role the state government should play in funding it. The concept that higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation