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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are so many people who had a part in this monumental milestone in my life.
First, I would like to thank my chairs, Dr. David Marsh, Dr. Robert Rueda and Dr. Rob
Arias. To Dr. David Marsh and Dr. Robert Rueda, I would like to thank you for your
patience, advice, guidance, and understanding throughout this process. Without their
incredible organizational skills, ability to keep everyone on task, calm, and ongoing
feedback, this dissertation might still be hanging in chapter 1.
To the many professors in the doctoral program, I would like to say thank you for
helping all doctoral students to work on skills for different pieces of the dissertation with
assignments, presentations, and discussion meant to stimulate our minds and creative
processes.
To all the members of my thematic dissertation group, thank you for all the questions,
peer reviews, discussions, laughter, and support. A special thanks to the members of my
three-man group: Zim Hoang and Danny Kim, I cannot express how grateful I am for all
your e-mails, editing, Skyping, and especially your support. THANK YOU!
Finally, I could not have done this without the extraordinarily generous support of my
friends and family. Thank you to my mother, Gloria Caster to whom I owe my focus and
work ethic, my Uncle Dennis and Aunt Dorothy for always being supportive, my
stepfather Glenn Caster who always pushed me to pursue my educational goals, and my
very patient and understanding daughter, Morgan. Morgan challenged me to pursue my
goal of earning a doctorate and would not let me settle for less.
Object Description
| Title | Improving college participation success in Glendale Unified School District: An application of the gap analysis model |
| Author | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Author email | Kedwyn@aol.com; cassady@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-01-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Marsh, David D. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rueda, Robert S. Arias, Robert J. |
| Abstract | From the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the role of education has been on the forefront of our social, political and economic landscape. Legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and No Child Left Behind as well as publications like A Nation at Risk have all illustrated the lack of access, equity and achievement in American schools for the last fifty years. Currently, the United States has a 69% average high school graduation rate, which varies between subgroups and of those students only 57% continue their education in college.; Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) is a high-performing, large, urban school district that serves an economically and culturally diverse population. This project examined the root causes of the gaps in college going rates for all students as well as those of the underrepresented subgroups by applying the Clark and Estes (2005) gap analysis model. Gaps between goal achievement (college participation) and actual student performance were examined and then research-based solutions for closing the achievement gap and recommendations based on those solutions were recommended to the school district administrative team. |
| Keyword | secondary education; school reform; college access |
| Geographic subject | school districts: Glendale Unified School District |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1954/2010 |
| Language | English |
| 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-m3806 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cassady, Dawn Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Cassady-4360 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Cassady-4360.pdf |
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| Title | Page 2 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are so many people who had a part in this monumental milestone in my life. First, I would like to thank my chairs, Dr. David Marsh, Dr. Robert Rueda and Dr. Rob Arias. To Dr. David Marsh and Dr. Robert Rueda, I would like to thank you for your patience, advice, guidance, and understanding throughout this process. Without their incredible organizational skills, ability to keep everyone on task, calm, and ongoing feedback, this dissertation might still be hanging in chapter 1. To the many professors in the doctoral program, I would like to say thank you for helping all doctoral students to work on skills for different pieces of the dissertation with assignments, presentations, and discussion meant to stimulate our minds and creative processes. To all the members of my thematic dissertation group, thank you for all the questions, peer reviews, discussions, laughter, and support. A special thanks to the members of my three-man group: Zim Hoang and Danny Kim, I cannot express how grateful I am for all your e-mails, editing, Skyping, and especially your support. THANK YOU! Finally, I could not have done this without the extraordinarily generous support of my friends and family. Thank you to my mother, Gloria Caster to whom I owe my focus and work ethic, my Uncle Dennis and Aunt Dorothy for always being supportive, my stepfather Glenn Caster who always pushed me to pursue my educational goals, and my very patient and understanding daughter, Morgan. Morgan challenged me to pursue my goal of earning a doctorate and would not let me settle for less. |
