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Selected Recent PhD Dissertation Titles

Noga Admon. Hispanic Students and the Decision to Attend a Community College.

Marci Borenstein (proposal). Organizing Immigrant Family Involvement: A Comparative Study of Two Urban Public Elementary Schools.

Erin Cocke (proposal in process).  Teachers & Accountability: Impacts on Teacher Practice and Sorting 

Jean Dauphinee. Factors Influencing the Institutionalization of Reading Recovery: A Survey of Schools in New York and New Jersey.

Karly Sarita Ford (proposal). Seeking Their Own Kind: Educational Homogamy and Social Stratification.

Jehanzaib Khan (proposal). School or Madrassa? Parents’ Choice and the Failure of State-run Education in Pakistan.

Christina López (proposal). Moving Up the Education Ladder: Second-Generation Dominicans in Higher Education.

Steven Oliver. Exploring the Utilization of Institutional Support Structures by Black Males on a Predominantly White Campus.

Catherine Wynne. An Analysis of Institutional Commitment and Goal Commitment at a Community College.