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Alan Watkins; Matt Silver – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Educational Change, Systems Approach
Greg D. Chadwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Meeting the needs of students dealing with trauma-related behavioral challenges poses a significant challenge. Research has shown that childhood trauma affects a student's capacity to learn in academic, social, and emotional contexts and that educators are faced with significant challenges when trying to provide an educational path for each of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Trauma, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
Easaw Alemayehu Assefa – Online Submission, 2025
This article is designed to examine the current situation of urban education in the selected schools in Addis Ababa with the view of establishing specific challenges that confront the schools, as well as, to explore the perception of stakeholders such as school leaders, teachers, students and the parents. To elicit the perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Environment
John Jacobs; David Lopez – WestEd, 2023
Despite long-standing efforts to address and eliminate disproportionality in special education, inequities remain and continue to negatively impact Black, Indigenous, and other students of color with Individualized Education Programs. This brief from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) supports state education agencies, local…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education, Educational Practices
OECD Publishing, 2022
Across the OECD, enormous effort and investment has been made to reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice. Despite this, using research in education remains a challenge for many countries and systems. The OECD launched the Strengthening the Impact of Education Research project to respond to this…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
James R. Johnsen, Editor – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
American public higher education systems include the largest and most impactful colleges and universities in the nation, including 75 percent of the nation's public sector students. While their impact is enormous, they are largely neglected as an area of study and underutilized as an instrument for the improvement of postsecondary outcomes.…
Descriptors: State Universities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Evan, Aimee – WestEd, 2019
Nationally, the number of charter schools opening and the enrollment size at charters is on the rise. But what happens when charter schools are low performing? For most charter schools and their authorizers, closing low-performing schools seems inevitable. However, school closures have dramatic impacts on students, families, and communities --…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Turnaround, Systems Approach, Capacity Building
Mascareñaz, Landon; Tran, Doannie – Harvard Education Press, 2023
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing top-down, closed systems within education and other public institutions, they have also created prime opportunities to rethink and redesign those systems in ways that encourage civic participation and invigorate local democracy. In…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Policy
Pati Montgomery; Angela Hanlin – Solution Tree, 2024
Drawing on the science of reading and research on high-performing schools and effective leadership, authors Pati Montgomery and Angela Hanlin provide school and district leaders with the tools to systematically implement and create the necessary systems and structures for evidence-based literacy instruction. By focusing on the establishment of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Reading Instruction, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Toffoli, Denyze – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2020
This book takes a fresh look at both context and the language learner in an attempt to shed light on the holistic and ever-changing system of the contemporary L2 speaker's language development. Drawing on complex dynamic systems theory as a means to more fully understand the holistic nature of contemporary language learning, the author attempts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Informal Education
Marx, Teri A.; Miller, Faith G. – National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2020
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of behavioral progress monitoring and goal setting to inform data-driven decision making within tiered support models and individualized education programs (IEPs). The guide covers: (1) components of quality behavioral IEP goals; (2) how to know which behavior(s) should be addressed through an…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Decision Making, Individualized Education Programs, Behavior Problems
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Kramer, Brianne, Ed.; McKenzie, Jennifer, Ed. – Myers Education Press, 2022
According to the American Psychological Association (APA, 2015), trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event, which can lead to difficulties with emotional regulation, social relationships, and the development of physical symptoms. Traumatic experiences may include physical or sexual abuse, neglect, experiencing or witnessing violence,…
Descriptors: Children, Trauma, Emotional Response, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Myung, Jeannie; Kimner, Hayin; Cottingham, Benjamin W.; Luna, Sergio Diaz; Shiels, Socorro; Hough, Heather – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2021
When K-12 schools in California closed for in-person instruction in response to COVID-19 in March 2020, few would have predicted that most schools would remain physically closed for more than one year. Throughout this period, California's educators and students have continued teaching and learning remotely for the most part, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Improvement
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Moore, Pauline; Jackson, Brian A.; Augustine, Catherine H.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Phillips, Andrea – RAND Corporation, 2021
School leaders across the United States face the challenge of creating safe and secure environments across their campuses in a way that helps promote the achievement of schools' educational objectives. To help them meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asked the Homeland…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Safety, Public Agencies, Kindergarten
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
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