Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Education"
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Changing Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity
Relocation programs improve the environment and opportunities of low income families, but fail to revitalize inner city, poor neighborhoods (policy option 2). In essence, mobilization efforts cause ancillary risks. In all ... -
College Retention Among Low-Income Students: Educational Barriers Associated with Low Socioeconomic Status
Taking our cue from the current poverty rates in the United States, it is naive to assume that the American Dream is still alive. Many disadvantaged people, regardless of how hard they work and how well they live, confront ... -
Decarceration: A Promising Approach to Closing the Incarcerated Youth Educational Attainment
While many juvenile detention facilities may reach the general public school standards, the education that incarcerated juveniles receive is inequitable. The centers do not provide youth with the resources that they need ... -
Foster Care Youth and Education
In my research paper I will focus on education for youth in the foster care system. First, I will discuss the history of the foster care system and outline the protocol of the child welfare system and how a child moves ... -
Hugo Chávez's Anti-Poverty Legacy: A Complicated Case
This paper aims to assess the positive and negative legacies of Chávez's anti-poverty policies and their future in a nation on the brink of resource exhaustion and political deterioration. It will first provide a review ... -
Human Capital or Human Capability: Basic Education from a Capability Perspective
This paper explores why access to quality basic education should remain an investment priority in the development field by comparing the human capital and human capability approach to education. Based on the analysis, the ... -
Invisible Harms: Barriers to Undocumented K-12 Students' Education
Approximately one-fourth of all immigrants residing in the United States are unauthorized, meaning they do not have US citizenship or official government approval to live in the US. That statistic looks like 11 million ... -
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ... -
Setting the Precedent: NYC Education Reforms 2002-2007
This paper examines the process of reform in NYC, over the past five years, to determine whether the reforms have adequately addressed the problems within the NYC school system. The paper begins by examining the conditions ... -
A Spectacular Minority: Charter Schools that Respond to the Problem of Poverty in Public Education
There are two important questions to keep in mind throughout this paper. The first of these is how "success" ought to be defined. Is it college entrance and graduation? Is it a certain type or level of occupation; that is, ...