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Title: EFFECTS OF TEACHER DIVERSITY AND STUDENT-TEACHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MATCHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
Author: Banerjee, Neena
Date Created: 2013
Description: This dissertation investigates the implications of student-teacher racial/ethnic matching on two educational outcomes. The fourth chapter investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students' math and reading achievement growth i...

Title: EFFECTS OF TEACHER DIVERSITY AND STUDENT-TEACHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MATCHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
Author: Banerjee, Neena
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: This dissertation investigates the implications of student-teacher racial/ethnic matching on two educational outcomes. The fourth chapter investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students' math and reading achievement growth i...

Title: Emotions, Self-Efficacy, and Opportunity Beliefs in American Neighborhoods
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: Subjective perceptions of social mobility are critical for defending societal system and maintain political stability (Day and Fiske 2017; Houle 2019). This dissertation enhances our understanding of factors that shape beliefs in opportunity for u...

Title: MEDIA TRUST IN CHINA: EXPOSURE TO INFORMATION, COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY, AND KNOWLEDGE GAP
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2018
Description: This research examines media trust in China in the new Internet era. Cognitive consistency model and the model of knowledge gap and media trust are employed to explain the public trust in different sources of media. According to the cognitive cons...

Title: MEDIA TRUST IN CHINA: EXPOSURE TO INFORMATION, COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY, AND KNOWLEDGE GAP
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This research examines media trust in China in the new Internet era. Cognitive consistency model and the model of knowledge gap and media trust are employed to explain the public trust in different sources of media. According to the cognitive cons...

Title: Policy and Parity: How gender equality and reproductive technologies influence the innovation and diffusion of marriage equality policies.
Author: Berlan, Meika
Date Created: 2016
Description: My research examines the adoption and diffusion of marriage equality policies in states across the US. I analyze how gender equality and reproductive technology reshape norms around marriage and family to foster the broad support of same sex marri...

Title: Policy and Parity: How gender equality and reproductive technologies influence the innovation and diffusion of marriage equality policies.
Author: Berlan, Meika
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: My research examines the adoption and diffusion of marriage equality policies in states across the US. I analyze how gender equality and reproductive technology reshape norms around marriage and family to foster the broad support of same sex marri...

Title: ROLES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SPENDING AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Author: Jha, Nandan
Date Created: 2013
Description: Equity in school district spending, and equity and productive efficiency in educational outcomes are of paramount importance in the literature on K-12 public education in the US. The research on the effects of school choice (operationalized as int...

Title: ROLES OF SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPETITION AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL SPENDING AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Author: Jha, Nandan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state
Description: Equity in school district spending, and equity and productive efficiency in educational outcomes are of paramount importance in the literature on K-12 public education in the US. The research on the effects of school choice (operationalized as int...