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Educational Policy Studies Dissertations

Dissertations from 2024 2024

Progressive Education and the Quality Agenda: Contradictory Views of Children, Childhood, and the Purposes of Education for Young Children, Kristen Cameron

Supporting School Leaders: A Case Study to Explore Leadership Development Through the Lens of Adult Learning Theory, Jenny Douglas

Articulating the Teacher: Gottlieb, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Language, Kenneth Driggers

Blessed Assurance: A Phenomenology Exploring The Lived Experiences of Black Women Superintendents Leading With Conviction, Tanisha Frazier

BWT Codes: A Study of Activist Black Women Teachers and Their Wellness, Danie Marshall

Transformational Leadership For Rural School Improvement, Charles Meyer

Forgotten Voices: Experiences of Five Female Public School Teachers in the Rural South, Abigail S. Ruth

Manufacturing Ignorance: Agnotology, Epistemology, and Education Policy, Erin C. Scussel

Relationship between College Graduate Job Placement and Faculty-Led, Team-based, Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Propensity Score Analysis, Julia Sonnenberg-Klein

Finding Our Sanctuary: An Exploration Of Leader Perceptions Of Trauma-Informed Practices In An Urban Title I Middle School, Krystye Tatum

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Access, Participation, and Empowerment: Exploring Leadership Practices that Promote Social Inclusion, Ashley Bidlack

A Case Study of How Public School Principals Can Leverage a Student Weighted Funding Formula for Equity and Social Justice Leadership, Lisa Bracken

Structural Leaders: The Intersection of School Principals, Business Leaders, and Social Networks, Nateil Carby

A Comparison Study of the Differential Functioning of Tests Statistic and a New Mahalanobis Distance-Based Statistic For Pre-Screening Item Response Theory Models, David Fikis

An Exploration of Teachers’ and Instructional Coaches’ Perceptions of Self-Efficacy in the Areas of Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Classroom Management, John M. Hruby

School Leaders’ Transformational Strategies for Successfully Preparing for Algebra I in Eighth Grade, Brooke Humphrey

George S. Counts on the Role of Indoctrination in Education: An Exegesis, James Alexander Aucoin Keller

Won't He Do It?! African American Males Who Achieved Their Doctor of Education (EdD): Perceptions of Success Factors, Felicia Lewis

Sankofa Journey: Investigating the Process of Co-Creating an African-Centered Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for Black Boys in Concert with Community, Rosalyn Martin

Perceptions Of Principal Practices Influencing Organizational Learning And Collective Teacher Efficacy, Bindu Sunil

Black, Educated, and Bougie: An Integrated Mixed-Method Analysis of Success Ideologies, Cultural Trends, Education Priorities, and Social Justice Values of Atlanta’s Core Black Middle Class, Kinyatta N. Trice

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Exploring Employees' Perceptions of the Learning Organization and Their Learning Experiences in a Georgia State Government Agency ? A Concurrent Mixed Methods Study, Olufunmilayo Adeolu Adesesan

Perspectives in Leadership and Program Management of Preschool Directors, Caroline Diaz

Black on Black School Discipline: Double Consciousness and the Perspective of Disciplining Your Own, Teruko Dobashi-Taylor

Exploring a Model of Clinical Leadership Grounded in Radiography: Developing Clinical Radiography Leaders, Kerry O'Fallon Dunn

A Case Study of Traditional Public-School Principals? Perceptions of and Responses to Charter School Competition Through the Lens of Social Justice Leadership, Shevan Howard

Intersections: Black female school leaders' lived experiences of leading and mothering Black children, Rolandria N. Justice-Emenuga

Discourse Framing Educational Policy in the Quasi-Public Sphere: The Case of the Atlanta Beltline Tax Allocation District, Anne E. Martin

Student Success According to Whom? A Black Aesthetics-Informed Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Natasha McClendon

Perceptions of Leading and Supporting School and District Leaders Through a Personalized Learning Initiative in the Southeastern United States, Christian S. L. Padgett

Context Matters: Controlling the Narrative about the College Board's AP Expansion to Urban Minority Youth, Angelann Teretta Stephens

If These Ivory Tower Walls Could Talk: Examining the Experiences of Ph.D. Students in Education, Kerry A. Wallaert

Lift EVERY Voice and Sing: An Intersectional Qualitative Study Examining the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Faculty and Administrators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Jonathan Wesley

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Estimates in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study, Brandon Attell

Using Differential Item Functioning and Anchoring Vignettes to Examine the Fairness of Achievement Motivation Items, Jacquelyn Bialo

Illusions of opportunity? A critical discourse analysis of Atlanta's opportunity youth initiative, Alexander Camardelle

Individual Mobility Across Clusters: The Impact of Ignoring Cross-Classified Data Structures in Discrete-Time Survival Analysis, Christopher Cappelli

The Souls of [Black] Teachers: A Participatory Action Research Approach Engaging Teachers with Communities Against Anti-Black Policies and Practices, Thais Council

Investigating the Performance of (Multiple-Factor) Multiple-Group Methods for the Detection of Differential Item Functioning, Theresa L. Dell-Ross

Unlocking Cross-Divisional Sharing: A Multiple-Case Study of Vertical Collaboration in Independent Schools, Wade A. Hanse

Principal Empowerment: Leader Perspectives In Rural Georgia Charter Systems, Brock R. Holley

Beyond Access: A Principal's Behaviors Displayed In The Implementation Of A District-Wide Initiative Focused On Students With Disabilities, Nicklaus Emmanuel Khan

Leading Against the Grain: An Exploration of an Educational Leader's Experience with Consent in the Sex Education Curriculum, Jaray Mazique

Creating Digital Content for the Individual Learner: A Personalized Approach to Online Learning, Genna Sengstacke McCurley

Exploring the Collision of Instructional Leadership and Destructive Leadership, Amanda B. Merritt

A Principal as Literacy Leader: Promoting Literacy Outcomes for Third-grade Students of Color, Lisa D. Thompson

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Understanding the Impact of K-12 Principals on African American Male Teachers' Educational Self-Efficacy, Sean P. Antonetti

Aqu¡ Estamos: A Portrait of Four Latinx School Leaders in Georgia, Taylor Barton

More than Free Speech: Politics, Higher Education, and the First Amendment, Kristina Clement

Exploring Assistant Principals' Preparedness to Lead Diverse Schools as Culturally Responsive Leaders in an Urban School District, Catana Harris

Experiences and perspectives of graduate teaching assistants at a large urban university, Justina Jackson

The Implementation of Organizational Systems to Reduce Novice Teacher Attrition: A Case Study of One High-Needs School, Eldread Nunnally

Perceptions of transformational leadership: The effects of organizational justice for English language learners, Graham Allen Oakley

An Eyeball, a Rock, and a Purple Rubber Ducky: Portraits of Leaders Implementing AP and IB Open Enrollment Programs Concurrently at One Urban High School in the Southeast, Chanika R. Perry

Educational Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Matthew Tyson

Perceptions of How Leadership Interactions Influence the Development of Collective Efficacy in Professional Learning Communities, Toni Ross Weir

Influence of Transformational Principal Practices on Developing a Teacher Leadership Pipeline, Deborah White

What's Culture got to do with it? Leadership for Culturally Responsive SEL Implementation, Lindsay Welles Wyczalkowski

Seizing The Opportunity: Principal Exercise Of Budget Autonomy In A Decentralized Environment, Kenneth Zeff

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Empty Seats at Circle Time: A Phenomenological Perspective of Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool, Alicia C. Burford

Criminalizing the School: An Investigation of How Current School Safety and Disciplinary Policies Contribute to the Overrepresentation of Traditionally Marginalized Students within the Criminal Justice System, Dia Clark

Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Preparation Program Quality and Beginning Teacher Retention, Brittany Cunningham

The Perceptions and Experiences of Elementary Georgia Science Ambassadors: What Educational Leaders and Policymakers Need to Know, Charles E. Harper Jr

Educational Social Justice Agnostic to Zealot: One White Male Elementary Principal's Journey, Jamie C. Hitzges

Mechanisms of Impact: An Exploration of Leadership for Sustained World Language Enrollment in U.S. Higher Education, Tim Jansa

Writing HERstory: Examining the Intersectional Identities of Black Women in Educational Leadership, Natasha N. Johnson

Culturally Responsive School Leadership and Gifted Identification in a Heterogeneous School: A Case Study, Kimberly Kranzlein

The Impact of Transformational Leadership Practices on the Cultural Responsiveness of Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) Implementation, Sally Seana Lehmann

It Takes A Village: Toward the Development of an Instrument with Valid and Reliable Scores for Measuring Family Engagement Using Q-Methodology, Amber Mason

Seeing Beyond the Stereotype to See the Whole Human: Teachers? Perceptions of Media Stereotypes and Black Youth, Syreeta Ali McTier

Teacher Mobilization: A Case Study on Organizational Factors & The Movement of Teachers within an Urban District, Jason A. Patterson

A Comparison of Student Growth Percentile and Value-added Models on School Quality Measures, Qi Qin

Examination of the Development, Implementation, and Monitoring of One Instructional Coaching Program in an Urban, Title I, Elementary School, Joseph Sanfilippo

An Examination of Data Management Systems and Utilization-Focused Participatory Evaluation, Syreeta Skelton

A School Like Me: Culturally Responsive School Leadership and Organizational Learning in a Secondary School Serving Traditionally Marginalized Students, Joshua Sturtevant and Joshua Sturtevant

Structural Validity Evidence of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Fifth Edition with African-American Students who have been Referred for Evaluation, Rachel Y. Taylor

Analyzing Dimensions of Academic Persistence: A Case Study of a Transfer Student Program at a Public University in California, Bobby Thomas Tyner II

Declassification of Students With Disabilities, Kristin Willis

Examining Professional Learning Communities in a Title I High School, Ronald Scott Wynn

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Humanization in the Digital Age: A Critique of Technophilia in Education, Morgan Anderson

Teacher and Administrator Perspective of Project-Based Learning, Nicholas Boyers

"Soul In A Can": Exploring How Black Male Students And Artists Navigate The Constraints Of Urban Classrooms And The Music Industry, Garfield R. Bright Jr

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: A Case Study Analyzing Principal Leadership and Discipline Direction in One Middle School, Sonya V. Brown

An Anchor Action Research Study on Student Achievement Utilizing the Teacher-Intern-Professor Model, David Curlette

Embodied Hope in an Urban Elementary School: Stories of Veteran Educators, Martha Donovan

Examining the "Just-us" League: A Heuristic Inquiry of African American Male Teachers in a Predominantly White School District, Brian K. Harmon

Testimonios: A Twenty-First Century Colonial Project and the Closure of Historically Black High Schools in New Orleans, Elizabeth K. Jeffers

Rescuing the Individual from Neoliberalism: Education, Anarchism, and Subjectivity, Gabriel Keehn

Adolescent Economic Empowerment in a Kenyan Urban Rural Context, Amanda Lane Moll

The Practice and Challenges of Social Justice Instructional Leadership In International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme Schools, Ovura Murphy

The Principal's Influence on Teacher Efficacy to Foster Student Engagement: A Case Study of Two Elementary Schools, Emily Nelson

Implementation of Technology in the Primary Grades: Transformational Leadership and Teacher Motivation, Kristi Ryczek

"Because I'm Regular, Too": Educational-Life Narratives of Metro-Atlanta Students in Special Education, 1975-2005, Cristy Sellers Smith

Racial Injustice: A History of the Segregated School System in Jackson, Mississippi, Susan C. Thompson

Teachers' and Leaders' Perceptions of an Induction Program's Influence on Teacher Retention in a Title I School with a High Population of English Language Learners, Cynthia B. Tookes

Icing the Batter: The MYP Coordinator, Principal Leadership, and School Reform, Susan M. Waterbury and Susan M. Waterbury

Administrator Beliefs and Their Impact On One-To-One Technology Initiatives and Instructional Practices in Elementary Schools, Kena Worthy

Unheard Voices: Counterstories of Latinx Immigrant Parents? Experiences Navigating Metro Atlanta Public Schools, Michelle Yrigollen-Robbins

Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Life of a Policy: An Afrocentric Case Study Policy Analysis of Florida Statute 1003.42(h), CHIKE AKUA

Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Decision-Making, Michael C. Barr