Vassar Scholarship
"Tests and rubrics and checklists don't create good teachers" – the significance of empowering teachers
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2016-January-01
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Erin McCloskey
Erin McCloskey
Vassar Scholarship
"This week, a loving mother fatally shot her child:" The consequences of sympathetic media portrayal of parents who kill their disabled children
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2014-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
(Re)storying Pain in Educational Spaces: Familial Storytelling, Connections & Reflections Toward Interdependent Care
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2022-June-01
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Vassar Scholarship
An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future
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2023-April-24
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This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...
Vassar Scholarship
An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future
Publication Date
2023-April-24
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Department or Program
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This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...
Vassar Scholarship
Building Love Outwards: Modeling a Pedagogy of Lovingness Through Peer-to-Peer Storytelling and Artmaking
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2021-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Cellular Movements: A Critical Investigation of HIV/AIDS Through Dance
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2021-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Creating a sense of community through self-description within LD spaces
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Creating the Autistic Perspective Via the Comic Book Genre
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2021-January-01
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My senior project, "Glitch," uses the comic's medium to provide insight into the subjective side of someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The diagnosis is typically classified as a neurological disorder where the individual may feel over/under-stimulated, perform strict routines...
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Creativity In Question: The Infiltration Of The Common Core State Standards Into The Realm of Visual Arts After School Programs
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2015-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Deconstructing the Urban Achievement Gap in Poughkeepsie, NY
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2011-January-01
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Differentiating the Common Core: Establishing the importance of place, population, and politics in creating a relevant and valuable curriculum
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2014-January-01
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This thesis explores the importance of incorporating students' surrounding place, population, and politics into a relevant and valuable curriculum. I frame this analysis with an overview of the benefits and detriments of the recent Educational reform initiative known as the...
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El eterno retorno: latinx youth radicalism and resistance through art
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2018
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Vassar Scholarship
Food fight: the communal struggle for food justice in Poughkeepsie city schools
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2016-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
In this space: a critical race perspective on the career aspirations of Latinas at Vassar College
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2016-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
No School Left Behind: The Power of School-Community Partnership
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2012-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
One common picture: the politics of character development and discipline at a 'no-excuses' charter school
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Placing (in)justice: a reassertion of urbanism in the age of mass incarceration
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2018
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Vassar Scholarship
The low-income, first generation and Latinx experience: resilience at an elite predominantly white liberal arts institution
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
The Rise of Urbanization and Social Control: Secondary Schooling, the Reformatory Movement and the Realignment of Separate Spheres in the United States
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2011-January-01
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