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The relationship between completing the Applications of Mathematical Reasoning course and high school to community college transitions

Creator:

Hammer, Joyce D.

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In 2004, the Transition Mathematics Project (TMP), funded by the state of Washington and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was established to create projects to help high school students gain the necessary skills to become college and work-ready. Aligned to TMP's College Readiness Mathematics Standards, a fourth-year capstone mathematics...

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Dissertation

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students to take during their senior year of high school. The purpose of this study was to explore any
Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:

Barbour, Nancy Staton

Abstract:

This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...

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Masters Thesis

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, 2012. Title: Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence