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A Bad Road Paved with Good Intentions: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Poor and Minority Students
This paper considers NCLB's [No Child Left Behind] impact on the racial and income achievement gaps the law sought to narrow. It will also explain how, in some ways, NCLB may have actually worked to harm the struggling ... -
Barbie as a Model of Gender Nontraditional Career Possible Self Content for Preschool and Kindergarten Girls (thesis)
Girls (N = 26, mean age = 4.38 years) were interviewed using Barbies dressed in gender traditional and nontraditional career outfits about their identification with the dolls and girls' own aspirations and self-efficacy ... -
Barriers of Access to Four-Year Colleges for Latinos in the United States
This paper examines and seeks to address the unique cluster of disadvantages that impair access to four-year colleges for Latino students in the United States. Latinos constitute the nation's fastest-growing minority group ... -
Battle of the Macronutrients: A Look into High Fat and High Fructose Diets and Their Impact on Physiology and Spatial Memory (thesis)
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and saturated fats are two of the main ingredients in the Western-style diet that have been implicated in the etiology of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which is associated with obesity ... -
Becoming Bengal: Understanding Islam as Political Technology in East Bengal and Bangladesh (thesis)
East Pakistan and Bangladesh's struggle to adequately understand the role that Islam plays within politics reflects this historical disconnect between the causes of Bengali Muslim political instability and potential solutions ... -
Behind Desks & Bars: The Impact of Latino Underrepresentation in the Workforce of the Criminal Justice System
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with over 2 million people incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails (Rovner, and Porter). People of color -- particularly Blacks and Latinos ...