- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- A qualitative study on the perceived impact of school/business partnerships on student academic achievement, 2004
- Creator:
- Hogan, Marshall
- Date of Original:
- 2004-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Student academic achievement in k-12 schools across America is in a state of decline. New educational initiatives are being proposed to boost and reinvigorate the present academic setting to reflect those academic standards of America's idealized past. School/business partnership is a pivotal initiative to assist schools in helping students achieve and grow. This study examined the perceived impact of school/business partnerships on student academic achievement. Emphasis was placed upon two urban high schools because of the widely publicized academic challenges of students in the urban high school. This study examined participants' perceptions to see if the school/business partnerships had an impact on student academic achievement. Selected members of two high schools leadership teams, as well as contact business partners, were interviewed to gamer their perceptions about the effectiveness of the school/business partnerships relative to student academic achievement. One significant finding from this study showed that although school/business partnerships are set up as school-wide ventures, a minority student population is truly impacted by the partnership. This and the other findings lead to the following conclusions: students' knowledge of a business partner was based upon the partner's visibility within the school; partnerships did not fully address parental or across- discipline teacher involvement; the business partner must work in concert with the local school district's Partners in Education Plan, which addresses the academic needs of all students.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2004_hogan_marshall.pdf
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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