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Xu, Shuqin; Law, Wing-Wah – Global Education Review, 2015
China has adopted an unbalanced policy for economic development to improve its domestic economy and international competitiveness for more than three decades. During this process, rural education has undergone a series of reforms. With reference to compulsory education, this article argues that rural education in China is a pragmatic instrument…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Urbanization, Migration Patterns
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Jokila, Suvi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore Appadurai's ideas of global cultural flows in the context of the internationalization of higher education in China. Studies on the internationalization of higher education have increased with the expansion of international activities on university campuses; however, more theoretical analysis in the field is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Developing Nations
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Wells, Amy Stuart – National Education Policy Center, 2015
This policy brief provides a review of the social science evidence on the housing-school nexus, highlighting the problem of reoccurring racial segregation and inequality absent strong, proactive federal or state integration policies. Three areas of research are covered: (a) the nature of the housing-school nexus; (b) the impact of school…
Descriptors: Housing, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Racial Bias
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Verkhohlyad, Olga; McLean, Gary N. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This study aims to bring some additional insight into the issue of emigration by establishing a relationship between emigration and psychic return of citizens to their human capital investment in the country. Design/methodology/approach: The article adopts a quantitative research strategy. It applies organizational commitment and human…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Immigration, Human Capital, Access to Education
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Qian, Li; Anlei, Jing – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Urbanization is an issue of universal concern today distinctly affecting the supply, content, and orientation of education. Based on a field study in a city in East China, the article argues that rural-urban migration in the process of urbanization created private sectors in education enterprises that were in sync with the urban community…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Urbanization, Migration Patterns
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Rizvi, Fazal – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
In this paper, the author focuses upon the global mobility of people and considers what some of its drivers are. The author explores the consequences it has in transforming not only the demographic composition of communities, but also the ways in which global interconnectivities now define the terrain in which social, economic, political and…
Descriptors: Migration Patterns, Global Approach, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Akar, Hanife – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Turkey is a country that has experienced and continues to experience a dramatic degree of both rural-to-urban and inter-regional internal migration. Migrants tend to settle in "gecekondu" areas in either established inner-city neighborhoods or in newer squatter settlements built on undeveloped land bordering rural areas on the urban…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Economically Disadvantaged, Migration, Student Problems
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Bravo-Moreno, Ana – Comparative Education, 2009
This article uses international comparisons to examine the ways in which national differences in educational philosophies and policies have affected trajectories through education for immigrant and second generation students and their succeeding socio-economic, civic and political integration. By looking at various settings such as classrooms,…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Student Mobility, Migrants, Immigration
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Prout, Sarah – Australian Journal of Education, 2009
Indigenous academic outcomes are in many ways negotiated at the interface between student spatialities--including their residential patterns and choices--and the mainstream school system. The current model of education delivery rewards regular attendance at well resourced schools. Conversely, sporadic interactions with under-resourced schools…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Residential Patterns, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Li, Mingliang – Economics of Education Review, 2009
In the U.S., white parents may choose to send their children to private schools in response to the local concentration of minority schoolchildren, commonly referred to as "white flight". This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing new evidence on white flight from the data set High School and Beyond (HSB). I find that a…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Metropolitan Areas, Counties
Townsend, Rob – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2008
This article presents the outcomes of recent research into adult education programs and experiences in the Shire of Campaspe, a region in northern Victoria. Research data of people from diverse cultural backgrounds reveal how individuals can utilize adult education as a space to explore their own social and cultural isolation in a regional…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Cultural Isolation, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Corbett, Mike – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
A focus on rurality has been largely absent from much contemporary educational policy discussion. At best, rural education is a peripheral concern just as rural areas are increasingly considered marginal to the development of a globalized, networked, fast capitalism. In Canada rural, coastal, northern, and single-industry communities that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Urban Culture, Rural Areas
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Rose C. Amazan – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2008
The number of highly skilled Africans leaving their country of origin, many with PhDs, has reached disturbing proportions. Meanwhile, Africa spends billions per year to fill the capacity gaps that are created by the exodus of the highly skilled. In Africa, Ethiopia ranked first in terms of rate of loss of human capital. Many African governments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Human Capital, Developing Nations
Pane, John F.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Tharp-Taylor, Shannah; Asmus, Gary J.; Stokes, Billy R. – RAND Corporation, 2006
The purpose of this technical report is to provide timely documentation of many of the short-term effects of the movements of students that occurred as part of the displacement of storm victims. The report will help guide educators and policymakers in their ongoing responses to this disaster and preparations for future events. Focusing on the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Information Systems, Public Schools, Natural Disasters
Dean, Diane R.; Hunt, Erika L.; Smith, Ryan – Center for the Study of Education Policy, 2006
This report, sponsored by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University, presents in-depth multi-method research and analysis on what matters to Illinois students and their families when choosing a college, why so many students are leaving the state, where they are going, and…
Descriptors: In State Students, Higher Education, College Choice, Student Mobility