Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

ESCI-335-51 Paleoclimatology: Earth's History of Climate Change

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2015-January-01
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The Pressures of the Profession: Why Do Teachers Choose to Stay or Leave

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2024-April-20
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This qualitative study examines teacher satisfaction and teacher retention, and how that
affects teachers’ reasons to stay or leave the profession. The research question that guided my
study was: “How do the pressures of the profession affect teachers’ decisions to...

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The United States Education System and Intergenerational Income Mobility

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2015-January-01
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This study intends to determine some of the avenues through which parent income affects child income and if the public education system has the potential to increase income mobility and equalize economic opportunity. I find that the income elasticity between...

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