The International Baccalaureate programs have demonstrated significant growth and popularity in the United States in recent years. A new school dedicated to implementing the Primary Years Program of the International Baccalaureate Organization provide . . .

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between peer perceptions and grades among Latino high school students in an urban high school in the Sacramento, California area. The study determined the nature of the relationshi . . .

Too few African American community college students in California, complete, persist or graduate and the expansion of successful programs to mitigate these conditions are cost prohibitive or programmatically restricted to small traditional student pop . . .

Statement of Problem Research has shown that school leaders’ understanding of high quality mathematics instruction and their ideas about how to support it are significantly influenced by their perceptions about the nature of mathematics, teaching, and . . .

Students in California Public Schools are increasingly failing to meet or exceed state proficiency standards found in the No Child Left Behind Accountability Act of 2002. Although there has been growth in every significant subgroup of proficiency in E . . .

The recruitment and retention of faculty of color remains one of the most difficult challenges facing American higher education (Antonio, 2002; Fenelon, 2003; Perna, Gerald & Baum, 2007; Sorcinelli & Billings, 1992; Stanley, 2006; Taylor, 2002 . . .

Educational leadership is at the forefront of school improvement and reform. Too often, only formal leadership is studied with regard to improving teaching and learning. This study is unique because the author has used an organizational theory lens in . . .

This study was an initial attempt to examine the assumption of a relationship between the subcomponent of Academic Language, Academic Vocabulary, and student and teacher knowledge as well as instruction and assessment in the fourth grade. To help inve . . .

Amidst a U.S. policy context that is ardently promoting the education of U.S. undergraduates for greater participation in world politics, trade, and cultural exchange, institutions of higher education are increasingly committing their campuses to prep . . .

Like many states in the nation, California has struggled with preparing more high school graduates to be college- or career-ready for post-secondary opportunities in the 21st-century. David Conley (2005) indicated that students are college-ready when . . .