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Brian Dauenhauer; Jaimie McMullen; Jennifer Krause; Taemin Ha; Lisa Paulson; Veronica Becerrra; Jessica Pena; Bryanna Mieles – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Within a whole-of-school approach to student wellness, comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) offer opportunities for physical activity before, during, and after the school day. However, to successfully influence behavior and fully reap the physical, cognitive, and psychological benefits of an active lifestyle, schools must…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Change, Wellness, Physical Activities
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Grunwald, Sandra; Vianden, Becky; Morgan, Betsy – Assessment Update, 2023
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL), as a public comprehensive regional university of approximately 10,500 students, utilized National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data regarding advising to jumpstart several key advancements that have yielded positive improvements as indicated in the most recent NSSE assessment data. Despite strong…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Academic Advising, Comprehensive Programs, College Freshmen
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Pring, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
This article sifts the historical and philosophical soil out of which the comprehensive ideal in education has sprung. England's national school system emerged in the nineteenth century imbued with ruling-class assumptions about the education required for each supposed type of child destined to take his or her place in one of the three broad…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Comprehensive Programs, Foreign Countries
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Hill, Dave – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
There are lines of demarcation between the political left and right, and also within the left, as regards central matters of education policy and how the purpose and value of education may be understood. This article details and distinguishes what is at stake, in particular between a revolutionary Marxist left and other currents, as regards a…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
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Ranson, Stewart – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
The post-war consensus has been dismantled in favour of a culture that rewards and empowers a small acquisitive elite at the expense of the great majority. This culture actively prevents the creation of a society of mutual recognition and respect. But without just such a society there can be no true comprehensive education. Where it exists,…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Democratic Values, Political Issues, Holistic Approach
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Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article reflects on the two subsequent articles--the first by Mike Davies and the second by David Taylor--that provide exhilarating challenges to the diminishing and demeaning status quo of current education policy and practice in England.
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert – Education Economics, 2020
We present a theory explaining the impact of ability tracking on academic performance based on grading policies. Our model distinguishes between initial ability, which is mainly determined by parental background, and eagerness to learn. We show that achievements of low ability students may be higher in a comprehensive school system, even if there…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Ability, Grading, Models
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Jenny, Seth; Becker, Andrew; Armstrong, Tess – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2016
The lack of physical activity is an epidemic problem among American youth today. In order to combat this, many schools are incorporating youth running programs as a part of their comprehensive school physical activity programs. These youth running programs are being implemented before or after school, at school during recess at the elementary…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Youth Programs, Comprehensive Programs, Track and Field
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Deering, Paul D.; Martin, Kathryn L.; Buelow, Stephanie M.; Hoffman, Jennifer T.; Cameli, Sandy; Martin, Matt; Walker, Robert E.; O'Neill, Tara B. – Middle School Journal, 2016
We must prepare young adolescents for a bright future by examining all of our educational practices in terms of their current and future relevance. The education we provide our students must prepare them to address enormously complex issues involving demographics and international relations, environmental and human health, and the development and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Educational Practices, Readiness
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Webster-Stratton, Carolyn; McCoy, Kathleen P. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The Incredible Years® (IY) program series is a set of interlocking and comprehensive training programs for parents, teachers, and children. This article briefly reviews the theoretical foundations, goals, and research underlying these programs. The main purpose of the paper is to describe how the IY programs have been scaled up slowly and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Family Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Research
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Zhang, Xiaoxia; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Tao; Keller, Jean; Chen, Senlin – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2018
Comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) aim to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles among school-age children and adolescents. Physical educators are highly qualified individuals taking on the role of certified physical activity leaders. Physical education teacher education (PETE) programs should consider preparing…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Comprehensive Programs, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education
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Harris, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This reflection does not pretend to be a scientific survey of curriculum trends but is, as the title suggests, a personal reminiscence of governorship across different phases of education, with snippets about the curriculum that my memory recalls.
Descriptors: Reflection, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Admission Criteria
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Martin, Jane – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This article is based on an inaugural professorial lecture given by Jane Martin at the University of Birmingham on 3 December 2014. It grew out of research in progress on the life and work of the leading educational reformer, Caroline Benn, wife of one of the most prominent and controversial post-war socialists in Britain, Tony Benn.
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Martínez Morales, Ignacio; Bernad i Garcia, Joan Carles; Molpeceres Pastor, Mariángeles; López, Míriam Abiétar; Navas Saurin, Almudena; Marhuenda Fluixá, Fernando; Giménez Urraco, Elena – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
Throughout the history of education different conceptions have been developed about the role and the function that education has in society as a whole. Such conceptions have been constructed around different discourses that show underlying social conflicts. The different educational practices acquire their legitimacy through such discourses, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
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Hayton, Carol – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
The author is a long-time advocate inside the Labour Party for ending selective education and the 11-plus. She outlines how Labour Party frontbenchers routinely ignore or deflect calls from Party members to stand up for comprehensive education in both word and deed. As UKIP, whose policy is to extend selective education more widely, rises in the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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