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Direct linkDabby, Dia – University of British Columbia Press, 2022
Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with the mandate of socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases involving religion in schools, "Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools" reveals legal processes that are…
Descriptors: Religion, Diversity, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
Woods, Emily Lubin – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2022
Drawing on rich case studies of Baltimore City and Boston, this volume identifies policy factors and processes critical to the successful district-wide adoption of community schools. By applying the Multiple Streams Model (Kingdon) to comparative analysis of policy determination and the narratives of local stakeholders across a 16-year period,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Urban Education, Educational Change
Download full textOregon Department of Education, 2017
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Oregon Department of Education, 2016
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, Trend Analysis, School Districts
Beasley, Maya A. – University of Chicago Press, 2011
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and finance? A sophisticated study of racial…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Racial Composition, Economic Status, Disproportionate Representation
National Academies Press, 2008
What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master's degree level? How do master's level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master's programs meet or support educational and career goals? "Science Professionals: Master's Education for a Competitive World" examines the answers to…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Public Agencies, Higher Education, Natural Sciences
Orfield, Gary; Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 "Dowell" decision, which authorized a return to neighborhood schools, even if that would create segregation, through the 2001-2002 school year. It goes beyond previous reports by Harvard's Civil Rights Project to study the impact of resegregation in…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Race, Poverty
Kim, Jimmy; Sunderman, Gail L. – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
Expanded schooling options for disadvantaged children is one of the four major principles of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), representing the theory that competition will produce better educational opportunities for disadvantaged students and improve the performance of low-performing schools. Under NCLB, school choice is the first in a series…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Minority Groups, Educational Improvement, Disadvantaged Youth
Education Trust, 2003
Implementation of the "No Child Left Behind Act" for the first time, required states to hold every school and district accountable to the same standards of academic performance, standards that apply to all students, including the low-income and minority students who have been traditionally underserved. Because states must report their progress to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Education
Wechsler, Henry; Moeykens, Barbara A.; DeJong, William – 1995
This bulletin reviews the results of a survey of college administrators and security officials by the Harvard School of Public Health concerning their schools' policies regarding alcohol problems on campus. A total of 529 respondents from 347 public and private four-year institutions were asked to complete a mailed questionnaire which examined…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Discipline Policy, Drinking
