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Dissertations from 2024
Finding Freedoms in Unfreedoms: Resisting and Disrupting Racism, Racialization, and Dehumanization via an Advisory-Based Participatory Action Research Project, Antonio Matteo Cinelli
Reimagining Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning Implementation in the Urban Setting: A Case Study of a Massachusetts Elementary School, Molly Helene Duffy
Unsettling Teacher Education: Cultivating Teaching as Resistance, Epistemic Disobedience, and Counterhegemonic Practices, Nina M. Kunimoto
How Teachers Perceive Teacher Leadership in a Massachusetts Urban Turnaround High School: A Concurrent Mixed-Methods Case Study, Matthew Lawrence McCarthy
Does the Doctrine of "Separation of Church and State" Matter?: Examining the Experiences of Black Christian Families in Massachusetts Public School System, Stephanie Denise Okwudi
Dismantling Digital Inequalities: Urban High School Students' Perspectives of Smartphones Use in Education, Artis Carneal Street
2010-2011 Equity Public Schools' School Closing and Mergers: A Phenomenological Case Study on the Purposeful Racialized Dispossession, Power, and Authority in Decision-Making, Kimberley Williams
Dissertations from 2023
Challenging Perceptions of Voice, Agency, and Empowerment Through the Lens of Current and Former High School Students, Dana Marie Brown Cincis
A History of the Boston Teachers Union, Michael James Lally
Dissertations from 2022
Schooling With Racial Equity at the Center: A Case Study Exploration of One Elementary School-Based Leadership Team, Michael L. Baulier
Substantially Silent: Exploring the Variability of “Voice” at the Intersection of Race and Dis/Ability in a Restrictive Special Education Placement, Christopher N. Hall
Dissertations from 2021
Education Inequity by Design: A Case Study of the Duval County Public School System, 1954–1964, Carolyn B. Edwards
Daring to See: White Supremacy and Gatekeeping in Music Education, Brian A. Gellerstein
Don’t Ignore My Voice: A Call to Action by and for Gender-Expansive Youth, Sam Hoyo
The Boston Opportunity Agenda: A Historic Case Study of Public-Private Partnership in Education (2007-2019), Timothy M. Lavin
A Case Study of Principal Leadership Behaviors that Lead to Urban Elementary Turnaround School Improvement, Sheneal Parker
Dissertations from 2020
The Racial Challenges Facing Black Male School Leaders Enacting Social Justice Agendas in Environments of Privilege, Jamel Adkins-Sharif
Her Seat at the Table: A Youth Participatory Examination of Food Insecurity Among Latina High School Students, Jessica Frances Arrendol-Kiely
How Do Black Mothers Navigate the Structures and Spaces of Special Education Programs to Advocate for Their Sons?, Phanenca Babio-James
Defining and Conceptualizing Disability: An Examination of How Culture Shapes the Understanding of Disability for Parents Who Immigrate to the United States, Lisa Langone Berard
Where Do We Come From? A Quantitative Study of the Backgrounds and Professional Qualities of Special Education Transition Specialists in Massachusetts, Jennifer Carr Callison
How do Emerging Bilinguals Learn Math?: The Role of Translanguaging in an English-Only Middle School Mathematics Classroom Setting, Mustapha K. Coker
"I Can't Learn That Fast." The Exclusion of Women in College Algebra, Karen Crounse
An Examination of the Factors Influencing High School Graduation Rates for Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education, Linda M. Flueckiger
Public-Private Partnerships in Education: A Vertical Case Study of the Right to Education Act (2009), India, Sheetal Gowda
Community College Non-Completion: Students' Voices and Embodiments of Stress and Healing, Tara Gully-Hightower
Educator Perspectives on English Learner Identification: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study, Rachel E. Hoffman
High School Teachers' Perceptions of Social Studies in the Context of Accountability, Kristina M. Kelleher-Bianchi
Educators Bailan with Policy et le Pouvoir in the Educação of Multicultural and Multilingual Learners (WIDA ELD Standards and the Education of English Learners), Fernanda Marinho Kray
The A/Effects of Implicit Bias on the Academic Success of Black Students Attending Urban Public Schools in the Northeastern Region of the United States, Nadine R. O'Garro
Spokespeople or Gatekeepers? A Case Study of Teacher Engagement with the Data Privacy Policy Environment in U.S. Public Schools, Amanda Potasznik
Critical Caste Theory in Education, Savitha Rajamani
An Examination of English Learner Leadership in the Massachusetts English Only Context, Teresa De Jesus Schwarz
Parents Pushing Back Against School Push Out, Erin Lindsey VandeVeer
Dissertations from 2019
Black Family Engagement Through Communication Technology: A Phenomenological Study from the Perspective Of Urban Public High Schools Parents In The Greater Boston Area, Mariette Bien-Aime Ayala
Using Currere as a Form of Self-Writing among Urban Teens, Kimberly J. Frazier-Booth
Policy Determination at the District Level: A Comparative Analysis of Community Schools in Boston and Baltimore City, Emily J. Woods
Dissertations from 2018
Reimagining the Discourse: Media Representation of Women in Boston Public Schools' Superintendency, 1991 - 2016, Lisa M. Cullington
Native Daughter: A Lived Experience of Desegregation, Kandice A. Sumner
Dissertations from 2017
Teacher Beliefs and Practices Regarding Students' Mathematics Learning in a High-Performing U.S. Urban Public Elementary School, Tamara L. Blake-Canty
A Case Study of an Exemplary Chinese Principal, Baifeng Sun Cadieux
A Case Study of an Exemplary Chinese Principal, Baifeng Sun Cadieux
The Educational Life Histories of Three 8th Grade African American Males at an Urban Alternative School, Stephanie Marson Lee
New to America: Immigrant Girls and Bullying, Vittoria Pacifco
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Common Core State Standards: Investigating a Possibly Neoliberal Ideological Field, Erik Lars Smith
Walking the Tightrope: The Tension in Math Teachers' Walk through Identity and Agency amidst Race to the Top in Cumberland County Schools, Cindy Smith Taylor
Dissertations from 2016
Transmigration Experiences of Newcomers in the Context of an English-Only Education: Sense-Making by Former Newcomer ELLs, Elizabeth Paulsen Tonogbanua
Dissertations from 2015
What Academic Grades Mean to Seventh Grade Students, Margo Joan Moore
Dissertations from 2014
Multicultural Education and Teachers' Perceptions of and Intended Responses to Students' Behavior, Malcolm J. Bryant
"We are a Democracy": Progressive-era Democratic Teaching in High School English Classrooms, 1912-1941, Nicholas J. Fitzgerald
Transformational Leadership and Student Achievement: A Case Study of Catholic Elementary Schools in the Archdiocese of Boston, Chris Flieger
The Influence of No Child Left Behind (2001) on the Leadership of Elementary School Principals in Massachusetts: Highlighted Responses from Asian American Principals, Wesley P. S. Manaday
"True, She Has the Culture You Need": A White Teacher in an Urban School Critically Reflects on the Hidden, Social, and Academic Curriculum, Mathew Arlen McLean
Beliefs and Attitudes Held By Assistant Principals in Massachusetts Public High Schools toward Student Suspensions, Samantha J. Meier
An Examination of School Committee Municipal Representation in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts, Kerry E. Mulcahy
Black Students' and Black Teachers' Self Identifications and Perceptions of One Another, Stacey Jones Mulligan
Working to Sustain Change: An Examination of Teacher Leadership and its Role in Promoting Organizational Learning in Urban Turnaround Schools, Katherine E. Petta
Does Increased Family Income Reduce Fade Out of Preschool Gains?, Colin C. Rose
Toward Professional Learning: The Convergence of Planning, Experience, and Literature in an Urban High School, Kimberly A. Talbot
Dissertations from 2013
Knowledge, Identity, & Professionalism: A Grounded Theory Analysis of How Urban Career Teachers Navigate Their Professional Lives, Lori Jean Brodeur
Power from the Margins: The Professional Identities of Three English as a Second Language Teachers in Low Incidence Districts, Tina H. Chien
From Legislation to Implementation: Distributing Leadership in Response to the Massachusetts Anti-Bullying Law of 2010, Alan H. Cron
Reconceptualizing Cultural Competence: White Placeling De-/reterritorialization within Teacher Education, Melissa Winchell
Dissertations from 2012
A Critical Study of the National Institute for School Leadership in the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, John Michael Perella
The Role of Self-Efficacy and the Effects of Situated Online Professional Development on the Competence of School-based Occupational Therapists, Yonnette Evelyn Semple-Dormer
Dissertations from 2011
Beyond Resiliency: Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Examine Alternative Education and Identity in a High Poverty Town, Susan M. Espinosa
In Students' Words: The Development of Student Attitudes toward Mathematics - A Social Perspective, Dianne Kathryn Kelly
An Exploratory Survey of the Enrollment Decisions of Parents and Guardians in Four Catholic Urban Elementary Schools, Sheila Lombard Kukstis
Inverse Operations: A Grade 8 Urban Mathematics Teacher's Response to the Achievement Gap, Kelly Ann Silva
Dissertations from 2010
A Critical Consideration of Co-Teachers' Interpretation of 21st Century Skills/Global Education, Maura Marlaine Morse
Dissertations from 2009
Bridging worlds: Advocacy stigma and the challenge of teaching writing to secondary ELL students, Laurie Zucker-Conde