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Educational disadvantage has been a focus in the United States for decades. The primary factor behind educational disadvantage has been low-income level since Lyndon B Johnson’s War on Poverty in 1964...

Virtual education is expanding exponentially across the country while steeped in controversy. This dissertation analyzes parent and teacher perspectives on how four Idaho virtual schools educate...

In 2015, President Obama announced the America’s College Promise (ACP) initiative, which proposed making two years of community college free for qualifying students. The ACP was inspired by the...

A number of school districts throughout the nation have changed their delivery method of a five-day school week to a four-day school week. Between 2009 and 2015, 27 Idaho school districts transitioned...

Research confirms that student-centered learning and technology are beneficial to the development of a students’ academic success. Research exists that explains the need for implementing technology...

College and career readiness efforts continue to increase through secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, and stakeholders expect an educational system that truly prepares a student to...

A quantitative between-group design included two treatment groups and a control group to explore if teacher participation in critical thinking professional development impacted critical thinking...

This qualitative descriptive study investigated the learning behaviors of non-clinical healthcare employees who work in a role in which they schedule outpatient behavioral medicine patient...

Although student-centered learning and the components it promotes are increasingly accepted and found extensively nationwide, there still exists minimal academic research that explores the perceptions...

In this mixed-methods study, charter school teachers in Idaho were surveyed and interviewed regarding perceptions of job satisfaction and factors that informed their decisions to stay at or leave...

In recent years, several notable educational scholars have critiqued the traditional way that the grading of students is completed in the United States. This criticism has led many educational experts...

Creating and sustaining a supportive sociocultural institutional ethos for academic success among first-generation, underrepresented undergraduates (FGUU) is crucial to promote equity in Christian...

California graduation requirements have been largely unchanged since 2003. Within the state of California, a public-school district has to meet state requirements to offer a high school diploma, but a...

Discipleship, a primary charge of the Church, involves teaching and learning. In order to disciple well, the Church and its clergy must consider how to teach content so that adults learn effectively...

The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of six charter school principals in the Midwest of recruiting and retaining students of color and the other services that their schools...

The effects of personalized learning on the self-regulatory abilities of students has not been fully explored at the secondary level. This mixed-methods, exploratory sequential study, used a post-then...

Facing a future of rapidly changing technology, collaborative workflow, and expectations for autonomy and agility in the workplace, schools must develop non-cognitive skills for 21st-century learners...

This mixed method research study examined the extent adjunct professors teaching online have applied best online teaching practices, as defined in Laurillard’s Conversational Framework, and how they...

College and career readiness research largely focuses on the implementation of programs such as AVID, Gear Up, and TRIO in high schools and some urban middle schools. Many studies suggest the...

This qualitative study examined eight Bible colleges which have membership with regional accrediting bodies. This study explored the reasons Bible colleges seek regional accreditation as well as the...

Research indicates that teacher voices are not well represented in educational policy and change. Education has changed dramatically in a short time, and it continues to change at a fast past...

Lesson study is a model of effective professional development that originated in Japan and has become popular among math teachers worldwide in recent decades. Idaho math teachers have engaged in...

Research confirms that student engagement and motivation decline during middle school with a correlating decline in academic achievement. Adolescent students experience changes biologically, socially...

The concept of overall subjective well-being has been highlighted in recent years. As society wrestles with mental health struggles, communities often look to schools to fill in the gaps. As such...

Research confirms that Native American students struggle with graduating high school at a greater rate as their non-Native American peers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the...