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Jim Watterston; Yong Zhao – Prospects, 2024
Is it possible to reduce the time students spend in classrooms and schools? Would such a reduction be better for learning and retaining teachers? How should learning be more flexibly enacted in the post-pandemic era? This article discusses the possibilities of rethinking school participation and calls for schools to reconsider the necessity and…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Luciane Nascimento; Andreia Cruz; Aline Moura; Igor Costa – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The article presents an analysis of Brazilian teaching work and its different expressions in the face of the neoliberal drive of the last three decades. The aim is to understand how market dynamics consolidate a new materiality through the consequences of neoliberalism on/for teaching work. The analysis is based on a Marxist perspective, through…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Hours, Commercialization, Educational Change
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Laura Louise Sarauw – Higher Education Policy, 2024
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is based on a quantitative and accumulative understanding of time, which increasingly frames academic practices and notions of learning in higher education (HE). By example of a recent Danish policy reform, the article explores the connections between the ECTS, new institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Credits, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Constance A. Lightner; Carin A. Lightner-Laws – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
As COVID-19 continues to impact various business sectors, university administrators have steadily pushed for all academic units to resume on campus operations and activities; conversely, faculty and students have expressed increased interest in continuing online teaching/learning. We aim to mitigate this "tug-of-war" between…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Flexible Scheduling, Business Administration Education, Statistics
Christy Wolfe – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2024
The impact of remote and hybrid work on American life has led to a growing interest in applying similar flexibility to education. This case study explores the concept of flex-based learning. It is a model that blends in-person and at-home instruction to provide a customizable and personalized education experience for students. Flex-based learning…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Blended Learning, Distance Education
Daniel Hamlin – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2024
The significant decrease in student achievement levels following the pandemic has become a pressing national problem, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts showed some of the sharpest academic achievement declines in the country. To assist schools in recovering from the pandemic, the federal government allocated three waves of funding through its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Trend Analysis, COVID-19, Pandemics