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Running Head: BENCHMARK ANALYSIS: HARDY BROWN COLLEGE PREP 1
A BENCHMARK ANALYSIS OF HARDY BROWN COLLEGE PREP
by
Howana Lenise Lundy
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2013
Copyright 2013 Howana Lenise Lundy
Object Description
| Title | A benchmark analysis of Hardy Brown College Prep |
| Author | Lundy, Howana Lenise |
| Author email | hlundy@live.com;hlundy30@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-05-23 |
| Date submitted | 2013-06-28 |
| Date approved | 2013-06-28 |
| Restricted until | 2013-06-28 |
| Date published | 2013-06-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hentschke, Gilbert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Escalante, Michael Fortune, Rex |
| Abstract | Student achievement data from the California Department of Education clearly show that a severe and persistent achievement gap exists for African American students across the United States. This achievement gap can be defined as the difference between African Americans’ and White students’ proficiency on the California Standards Test. Many parents and educational reformers have looked to the charter school structure as a viable alternative to the traditional public school offerings. Charter school supporters hold that charter schools can and will be the answer to the achievement gap. ❧ This study examined parent choice related to charter schools, performing a benchmark analysis of a newly formed charter school in San Bernardino County, California, to determine whether the parents’ choice of an alternative educational model for their African American children was beneficial for their children’s academic progress. School success was investigated through the lens of a heavily researched model of academic excellence that is implemented at the school. ❧ This study investigated how parents think their children are performing academically in the identified charter school setting. The researcher compared student data on standardized tests for these African American students to data for similar students throughout California. Results suggest that parents perceived high levels of each of the Five Pillars. Analysis of student achievement data indicated that levels of student proficiency in Language Arts and Mathematics were significantly higher than in matched comparison schools throughout California. |
| Keyword | African American; education; charter; five pillars |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Lundy, Howana Lenise |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-LundyHowan-1722.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-LundyHowan-1722.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | Running Head: BENCHMARK ANALYSIS: HARDY BROWN COLLEGE PREP 1 A BENCHMARK ANALYSIS OF HARDY BROWN COLLEGE PREP by Howana Lenise Lundy ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2013 Copyright 2013 Howana Lenise Lundy |
