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Timothy M. Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of adult learning theory, or how adults learn, has exploded in recent years yielding increased knowledge and awareness of how adults learn. While preachers do have a wide variety of ages in their congregations, most of the people they preach to are adults. This dissertation looks at preaching and adult learning theory and what the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Barriers, Theories, Religion
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McNamara, Scott W. T.; Rizzo, Terry L. – European Physical Education Review, 2023
Public school administrators in the United States are required to supervise special education services, which include physical education and adapted physical education (APE). Although school administrators supervise and provide resources to support APE services, APE teachers have indicated that school administrators often interfere with their…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Intention, Physical Education
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Razo, Rosy; Blankenship-Knox, Ann E. – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2022
How do we ensure that all students have the tools and resources they need to succeed in today's educational context? In this article, we explore how the right to education generally and to specific educational tools and resources in California have been protected through litigation in the past; how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed technology-based…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Equal Education, Internet
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Suhrheinrich, Jessica; Melgarejo, Melina; Root, Brittney; Aarons, Gregory A; Brookman-Frazee, Lauren – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Research regarding variables influencing evidence-based practice implementation within school services for students with autism spectrum disorder is limited. Using qualitative methods, the current study applies the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment framework to characterize factors impacting the implementation of practices…
Descriptors: Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Achieve, Inc., 2013
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer unique new opportunities for educators to share quality learning resources, especially in an increasingly digital world. Forty-six states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), providing them with the unprecedented advantage of being able to share resources that are…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperation
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Smith, Joanna; Thier, Michael – NASSP Bulletin, 2017
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards has posed a number of challenges for school leaders. This study applies a policy implementation conceptual framework to analyze data gathered from 46 interviews in six states. Findings suggest the existence of multiple barriers to Common Core State Standards implementation. To promote…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation, Barriers, Educational Change
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Melguizo, Tatiana; Flores, Stella; Velasquez, David; Carroll, Tim – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Using linked, individual-level data from a large metropolitan K-12 district and a large urban community college district in California, we examine whether indicators of college-readiness for graduating high school students who were initially classified as English Learners (ELs) are honored in community college course placement. In particular, we…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Students, High School Graduates, English Language Learners
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Kouyoumdjian, Claudia; Guzmán, Bianca L.; Garcia, Nichole M.; Talavera-Bustillos, Valerie – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
Growth of Latino students in postsecondary education merits an examination of their resources/challenges. A community cultural wealth model provided a framework to examine unacknowledged student resources and challenges. A mixed method approach found that first- and second-generation college students report equal numbers of sources of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Mixed Methods Research, Hispanic American Students, Guidelines
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Mimura, Yoko; Koonce, Joan; Plunkett, Scott W.; Pleskus, Lindsey – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2015
Using cross-sectional data, we examined the financial information sources, financial knowledge, and financial practices of young adults, many of whom are first generation college students, ethnic minorities, and immigrants or children of immigrants. Participants (n = 1,249) were undergraduate students at a large regional comprehensive university.…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Knowledge Level, Student Diversity, Financial Services
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2014
Educators nationwide confront a troubling phenomenon: Increasingly, students leave high school unready for college, as evidenced by high rates of placement into remedial courses and low rates of college completion. Many students also lack either the attitudes or skills essential to succeed in a postsecondary setting, or knowledge of how to apply…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Educational Indicators, Predictor Variables, College Bound Students
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Sanchez, Patricia – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
The author is grateful that this journal has taken on the production of a special theme issue entitled "Immigration and Teacher Education: The Crisis and the Opportunity." In her estimation, the "crisis" is not so much that the United States may indeed continue to enroll more immigrant children and youth in its schooling system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Jones, Anna Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The nutrition environment in schools can influence the risk for childhood overweight and obesity, which in turn can have life-long implications for risk of chronic disease. This dissertation aimed to examine the nutrition environment in primary public schools in California with regards to the amount of nutrition education provided in the…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Educational Environment, Child Health, Risk Management
Silander, Megan; Chavez-Reilly, Michael; Weinstein, Meryle – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2015
Teaching entrepreneurship--how to create, grow and run a business or organization--is one potential means to increase college and career readiness skills. Learning how to start a business can improve critical thinking, communication and collaboration (Gallagher, Stepien, & Rosenthal, 1992; Hmelo, 1998), which are key qualities for academic as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Business Skills