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Although postsecondary institutions have been charged with serving the public good by expanding opportunity for racial minority and low-income students, over the past few decades, state funding has shrunk while the price students pay for...
Despite the popularity of innovation adoption and diffusion research in a variety of disciplines, there has been little knowledge of innovation adoption and diffusion in the area of sport management. This study attempted to link the...
The goal of this research is to understand the role, influence, and attitudes of downtown Atlanta business elites on downtown redevelopment policies. The downtown business elites has dominated the local politics of Atlanta for decades in...
College prices have risen at a dramatic pace, with tuition increasing over 200% since 1989. Federal and state aid programs have long provided support to students' efforts to cover the costs of college; however, some argue that aid...
This dissertation presents a historical case study of Florida's property assessment limitation policy known as Save Our Homes. It traces the policy's more than 20-year development, beginning in 1986 when the architect of the policy...
The conditions under which legislators engage in idiosyncratic behavior remain poorly understood. Their personal ambitions and desires constantly confront obligations to constituents and institutional constraints. Often, lawmakers pursue...
Over the past 40 years, performance-based funding has become a common tool of state legislatures to hold institutions accountable for student outcomes. Performance funding allocates state money to institutions based on a specific set of...
The current study examined how GeoGebra contributed to middle grade Algebra I students' conceptual understanding of functions. In order to gain a deeper understanding a case study approach was utilized. Vinner (1983), and Vinner and...
This dissertation is organized around key factors that may influence students’ STEM major choices. These are: 1) individual perspective – focusing on students’ perceived mathematical and scientific abilities as well as math and science...
The current study examined (1) the characteristics of the advice networks of six Innovation schools among educators within grade-level PLCs in a city, South Korea, and (2) the extent to which these social network characteristics are...
This dissertation is composed of three distinct studies. Study 1 asks what type of 'public opinion' is most likely to influence policy. Studies arguing for a strong link between public opinion and policy outcomes have focused on purely...
The mission of the CMS experiment at the LHC is to investigate and discover unknown physics in proton-proton collision events. This thesis presents a search for new physics in final states containing a photon and missing transverse...
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