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Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, 2019
Substitute Senate Bill (SSB) 5357, laws of 2017, required the Washington State Department of Early Learning, now the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), to establish a four-year pilot project to license "outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs," otherwise known as "outdoor preschools." As…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Outdoor Education, Preschool Education, Preschools
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Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
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Glover, Alison; Jones, Yvonne; Claricoates, Jane; Morgan, Jan; Peters, Carl – Innovative Higher Education, 2013
Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development in higher education is vital if graduates are to possess the abilities, skills, and knowledge needed to tackle the sustainability issues of the future. In this article we explain the development and piloting of a baselining tool, the Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Citizenship Education, Global Approach
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Xiaobing, Sun – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
This paper starts out by describing the research and drafting processes of the "National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Guideline" (2010-20) (hereafter abbreviated as the "Guideline") and analyzes a series of core concepts that ran through the entire process of researching and drafting the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Jinqiu, He – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
This paper presents the main content of the portion on "increasing the openness of China's education" in the "National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Guideline (2010-20)" (hereafter abbreviated as the "Guideline") and the key issues studied and discussed in the formulation process. Issues…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Resources
Rieh, Sun-Young; Kim, Jin-Wook; Yu, Woong-Sang – CELE Exchange, 2011
The Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) has recently initiated a pilot project to develop a new prototype school, involving users in the design phase. This is the first time in Korea that users have been consulted on issues relating to school design. One of KEDI's objectives is to integrate specific elements into school design such as…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Facilities Design, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
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Young, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) were launched in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) in 1987 as a framework for rationalising what was described at the time as the "jungle" of existing vocational qualifications. They were never intended to be the basis for a comprehensive NQF for all qualifications; however, successive…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, National Standards
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England-Siegerdt, Christy; Andreas, Michelle – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
President Obama is calling for an increase in educational attainment among citizens of the United States (Obama, 2009). Prior to this national call, Washington State recognized the need to increase the educational attainment of its residents to maintain a globally competitive economy. By 2018, 67 percent of jobs in Washington will require a…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, State Action, State Programs, Educational Demand
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Resinger, Paul – Improving Schools, 2008
After providing some insight into the historical background of school evaluation in Austria, this report introduces a possible reform model, and then describes the development processes, drawing on the example of a two-year pilot project, before evaluating its advantages and limitations.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation, Educational Development, Pilot Projects
van der Gaag, Jacques; Abetti, Pauline – Brookings Institution, 2011
This policy brief outlines how national education accounts (NEAs) are created, and why they are a vast improvement over current financial tracking systems in the education sector. Examples from the health sector illustrate the benefits of national accounts for improving public services, and their ubiquity highlights the poor state of affairs of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Health Services
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Curry, Dale; Eckles, Frank; Stuart, Carol; Qaqish, Basil – Child Welfare, 2010
This article provides an overview of the history, development, and conceptual framework guiding a national certification initiative for child and youth care workers. Summarized are descriptions of three certification assessment measures (supervisor assessment, situational judgment certification exam, and portfolio assessment), integrated with…
Descriptors: Caring, Portfolio Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
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Bunnell, Tristan – Journal of Research in International Education, 2008
The International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2008. Following almost four decades of rapid growth the IBO embarked on a strategic planning exercise in 2004. One outcome is that the IBO seeks to widen access to its Diploma Programme (IBDP), and one avenue being followed is online provision. There have been…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Opportunities, Advanced Placement Programs, Online Courses
Sales, Gregory C.; Al-Rahbi, Fathiya – Educational Technology, 2008
The Sultanate of Oman recently investigated the viability of online teacher training through a joint project funded by the U.S. Middle East Partnership Initiative and the Oman Ministry of Education. One aspect of the project was to build sufficient capacity within the Ministry to enable Oman to produce online training in the future. This article…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Partnerships in Education
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Mooij, Ton – Research Papers in Education, 2008
Gifted pupils differ from their age-mates with respect to development potential, actual competencies, self-regulatory capabilities, and learning styles in one or more domains of competence. The question is how to design and develop education that fits and further supports such characteristics and competencies of gifted pupils. Analysis of various…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Guidelines, Gifted, Formative Evaluation
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2010
The American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Plus 50 Initiative (2008-2011), funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, was created to build the capacity of community colleges nationwide to develop programming that engages the plus 50 learner. The Initiative supported a pilot group of 13 two-year institutions to develop or expand college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
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