Since 1837, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have secured a reputation for providing students, especially Black students, with a holistic college experience. An experience that embraces culture and leads to self-discovery, life-long personal and professional relationships, and most importantly, career opportunities. Today,…

In gifted education, an important and contentious issue that has yet to be sufficiently addressed is the systemic underrepresentation of gifted students who have been discriminated against in school-based gifted and advanced learner programs because of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other…

This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…

This multi-case research study explored the literacy perspectives and self-reported practices of a group of teachers who graduated from a Teacher Education Program (TEP) with a culturally responsive (CR) framework. The study also compared and discussed changes over time in an educational system immersed in discourses of efficiency, accountability,…

With its causes and consequences, migration is one of the important problem areas with its social, economic, political, and educational dimensions. The phenomenon of immigration in today's world and the social integration and adaptation of 3.5 million refugees in Turkey puts a great responsibility on education and educational organizations. It is…

School personnel are accountable for the academic "achievement" of students with and without disability labels (Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA], 2015). In Wisconsin, "achievement" is measured via performance on standardized academic assessments (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction [DPI], 2019). The use of these…

This qualitative case study explored working class individuals' perceptions of social mobility in a changing the community. The explored community was traditionally a working class community. It was near a metropolitan area that was growing more prosperous. Many residents commuted to the metropolitan area and the community started turning into a…

Exclusionary discipline practices such as suspension and the disproportionality that exists among ethnicities have been a topic of interest for researchers for over 30 years. The purpose of this qualitative narrative study was to explore the perceptions of five African American males between the ages of 21-28 years old who have exited school…

The purpose of this study was to examine technology integration and the application of Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT). This inquiry evolved as a result of trying to understand the unique intersectionality of student identity, which is inclusive of youth culture, and whether teachers understood this dynamic and hence leveraged it in the…

A significant consequence of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), unintended or not, was the general introduction of the "high-stakes testing movement that has now made standardized test scores the main criteria by which student knowledge, teacher efficacy, and school quality are assessed" (Thompson & Allen, 2012, p. 218).…

This instrumental, qualitative case study was completed to understand and investigate the actions and behaviors of school-leaders in a small, military-connected school district and how those behaviors and actions impact military-connected students. The central research question of this study was: "How do school leaders in a military-connected…

In public education, the opportunity gap, or the arbitrary circumstances in which students are born, limiting access to resources both inside and outside of school, in 8th grade mathematics by race, ethnicity, income and English learner status continues to persist. School leaders have implemented programs, adopted new curriculums, instituted…

America's regional public universities provide the opportunity for upward social mobility, or the generational movement of wealth, education, employment status, social adjustment, democratic participation, and general well-being. A college degree is generally thought of as the ticket to social mobility for individuals, and collectively, higher…

The educational disparities that can be found in the English language learning outcomes of middle school students in Austria have gone relatively unexplored in international research. National studies have tended to attribute lower educational outcomes either to students' socioeconomic status or their multilingual background. In this article, we…

Most teachers are not trained on how to support students who struggle with trauma. Childhood trauma not only impacts a teacher's ability to teach, but also threatens their students' futures. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate teachers' perceptions and actions when they participated in trauma professional development.…