Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

First Advisor

Marnie McInnes

Second Advisor

Alicia Suarez

Third Advisor

Rebecca Alexander

Abstract

In School Smart, I cap off my career as a student asking questions many do when childhood grows distant: What happened to us and how did we get here? Fed up with a society that gives individuals all the credit (or blame) for their education outcomes, the following essays crack open the stiff binding on “education stories” with hindsight, history, and a whole bunch of data. School Smart gives six examples of different women at different schools who put faces to murky concepts like “the achievement gap,” “the accountability movement,” and “special needs education.” To reform education, we need to understand our schools.

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Honor Scholar thesis

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