African Americans; African American physicians; African Americans--Hospitals; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; African Americans--Medical care; Hospitals; Medical education; Race...
Oral history interview with Louisville physician Maurice Rabb. Dr. Rabb discusses his early life and education in Mississippi. He speaks of his experiences as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, comparing race relations in his...
African Americans--Education--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Education--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Louisville Public Schools (Louisville, Ky.)--History; Literacy--Social aspects--Kentucky--Louisville--History
I conducted my dissertation research in the national, state, and local archives. Using Deborah Brandt's "Sponsors of Literacy" as a conceptual framework and Critical Race Theory as a theoretical framework, I offer Louisville, Kentucky as...
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching; English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching; Community colleges--Kentucky--Louisville
The introduction to this doctoral dissertation is an argument for locating Writing Across the Curriculum programs on the community-college campus for several reasons, among them the proximity of the disciplines on the community college campus, the...
College dropouts--Prevention; Social work education--Kentucky--Louisville; Social workers--Training of--Kentucky--Louisville; Academic achievement--Kentucky--Louisville
This study tested a hypothetical model for predicting both graduate GPA and graduation of University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) students entering the program during the 2001-2005 school years....
The number of refugees being uprooted from their homes to seek refuge and resettlement in countries like the United States continues to grow, with large numbers being children. While each refugee group has its own set of challenges when adjusting...
Band directors--Attitudes; High school principals--Attitudes; Bands (Music)--Instruction and study
The purpose of this study was to survey secondary school administrator and band director perceptions regarding the implementation of Kentucky's Core Content for Assessment 4.1 (CCA 4.1) in Music in the band programs at their schools. Secondary...
Middle school education--Curricula--United States; Single-sex schools
A comparative case study focused on six mathematics teachers of all-boy classes in three middle schools. Each school chose to experiment with gendered classes to improve specific, yet somewhat different, outcomes. A purpose of this study was not to...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Allene Seaton of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing an evening dress and holding a fan in her lap. Crop marks outline her image, and the photograph is badly discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Kindergarten director, Louisville...
Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--Kentucky; Test bias--Kentucky; Academic achievement--Social aspects--Kentucky
This study investigates the progress of standards-based accountability in eliminating the effects of student background and school composition factors on student achievement and school performance in a large, urban district in Kentucky. The factors...
Educational change--Kentucky--Grant County; Student adjustment; High school students; Middle school students
This study investigated the impact of articulation activities and the extent to which the Grant County Kentucky school district operated as a learning organization during the implementation of a research-based middle to high school student...
Teacher-student relationships; Abused children--Education; Teachers of problem children; Child psychotherapy--Residential treatment
Although there is a vast body of literature to support multiple positive outcomes related to positive student-teacher relationships, no prior study has investigated student-teacher relationships within the context of a residential treatment center...
The purpose of this study was to examine common algebra-related misconceptions and errors of middle school students. In recent years, success in Algebra I is often considered the mathematics gateway to graduation from high school and success...
Archibald Dixon was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1802. He moved with his parents to Henderson, Kentucky, in 1805. Educated in the local schools, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He established a practice in Henderson....
Address: 1810 Sils Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by J. Earl Henry, the Belknap School was housed in this building until Jefferson County Public Schools closed the school in 1978. The Belknap Building, which became a condominium in 2006,...
Charles Morehead Thomas was born in 1847 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He attended the common schools of Warren County, Kentucky, but was caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War, joining the Confederate Army as a youth. After the war he returned to...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
University of Louisville purchased the old Carmichael Elementary School, which was named in honor of Omer Carmichael, superintendent of Louisville Public Schools, in 1976. Former uses: Storage, Center for Environmental Health Sciences; Liver...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, with neighborhoods Portland, West Louisville, Parkland, South Parkland, Clifton, Crescent Hill, Highlands, Audubon Park, Camp Taylor, Highland Park, Wilder Park, Beechmont, Oakdale, Southern Heights, and Jacobs Addition...
Black-and-white map, 25.1 x 11.4 cm when folded, of Jefferson County, Kentucky, compiled and published by E. J. Coleman & Co. of 615 S. Second Street, Louisville, Ky. in 1943, "Publishers also of Coleman's Jefferson County Booklet,...
Christian leadership--Case studies; Rural churches--Kentucky; Clergy; School improvement programs; Educational leadership
This qualitative study sought to illuminate successful practices of a turnaround leader in a rural church that are applicable cross-contextually, so as to inform the leadership efforts of various organizations seeking to reproduce organizational...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Cora Wilson Stewart of Morehead, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and corsage pinned to her jacket. She founded the Moonlight schools in the mountains of Kentucky, to help fight illiteracy. The background of the photograph has been...
