Teacher retention has remained a severe challenge for the American educational system. Retention of literacy teachers and reduction of their turnover can be more imperative given that literacy teachers are obliged to teach ...

Decades of research have yet to provide a vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The virus sequence varies at high rates once infection occurs, but changes in the RNA ...

Immigration and foreign efficiency have increased domestic labor market competition and displaced native workers. Populist rhetoric identifies immigrants, outsourcing, and trade deficits as the causes for voter’s socioeconomic ...

Psychological skills training has been a proven coaching method used with athletes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of psychological skills training with equestrian athletes. We hypothesized that coaches ...

With traditional teaching methods prevalent in the U.S., it is crucial that science teachers understand methods that result in authentic changes in classroom instruction. Alternative conceptions that students bring to the ...

Teachers face more challenges in today’s classroom than were faced 20 years ago. The rise of English Language Learners (ELLs) in American schools continues to grow, with 21% of the K-12 student population being ELL (NYU, ...

The purpose of this study was to examine how Middle Tennessee State University’s school psychology alumni are utilizing skills related to NASP graduate training standards 2.4 and 2.6. These training standard focus on skills ...

Women are frequently under-represented at historic house museums. By quantitatively measuring how we talk about women during house tours, public historians can utilize this information to re-tool the stories they tell about ...

Personality characteristics along with acculturation factors associated with the western African American culture were examined to determine eating disorder risk for women of African American, African, Afro Caribbean, and ...

This thesis explores the challenges faced by rural county seats across the South as consumer and travel preferences have changed throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. I used the case study ...