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Metro, Rosalie – Social Education, 2019
A textbook author reflects on the ethical and ideological choices she made in her quest to create a history book that would be relevant to demographically diverse high school students.
Descriptors: Authors, Textbook Preparation, Ideology, Ethics
Smith, Jill M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation focuses on the growing role of private, for-profit Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) in the college application process. Over the past two decades, an "admission industrial complex" of commercial enterprises designed to help students strategize about admissions and give them information about colleges has…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Bound Students, Consultants, Role
Reynolds, Cecilia; White, Robert; Brayman, Carol; Moore, Shawn – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
Our study investigated patterns of female participation as secondary principals that have varied across contexts and changed slowly. Researchers interviewed decision makers from a purposive sample of 10 urban and rural school districts in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, gathering data from structured telephone interviews,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Females, Leadership Styles, Foreign Countries