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Samantha Nousak; Leanne Barry; Susan R. Fisk – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Statistical literacy is critical for all sociology students because it facilitates academic and professional success, high-paying jobs, and informed citizenship. Most students, however, lack adequate statistical literacy to engage with sociological research. Within that general deficit, there are gender, racial, and social-class differences, with…
Descriptors: Sociology, Statistics, Literacy, Social Science Research
Candal, Cara Stillings – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2023
In Spring 2022, Pioneer Institute published "The Boston Publics Schools' Road to Receivership," which detailed the findings of the 2019 state-commissioned, third-party report evaluating outcomes and operations in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). The report was scathing, citing years of declining enrollment, low test scores, financial…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Educational Change
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Khan, Kamran – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This article will focus on inequalities for migrants which are (re)produced by the promise of equality through citizenship and settlement test regimes. I theorize the links between language and borders by drawing on scholarship on security before offering an analysis of language border proliferation. Drawing on other studies and my own work, I…
Descriptors: National Security, Citizenship, Immigrants, Social Differences
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Lee, Jack T. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Recent calls for the decolonization of the academy demand recognition for diverse canons of knowledge. Asia's economic ascent also imparts rising confidence among Asian scholars and institutions to promote indigenous knowledge. While these global calls for emancipation are invigorating, decolonial scholarship is prone to sterile theorization,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge, Economic Development, Asians
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2022
"A college degree can be a ticket out of poverty." Yet, only 22% of the country's Black population and 15% of the Hispanic population have a minimum of a bachelor's degree, compared with over one-half of Asians and about one-third of whites. Strong academic success in foundation courses and courses that fulfill general education…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Grade Point Average, Minority Group Students, College Students
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Martinez, César Augusto Ferrari – Gender and Education, 2023
This article investigates the production of neoliberal subjectivities in Latin American international students in Chilean universities. In last years, Chile have registered plenty political uprisings regarding its economic, social and gender inequalities. The premise is that Chile is a country where Neoliberalism is rooted not only in the form of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Bravo-Moreno, Ana – Power and Education, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine academia and the abuse of power based on auto-ethnographic research. I draw on my experiences across 12 universities in different locations in Spain, the UK and the USA that expose the way power is embedded in institutions of higher education and how it is maintained. This article analyses the exploration…
Descriptors: Ethics, Power Structure, Guidelines, Gender Differences
Vilsack, Rachel; LaPrad, Jeannine – National Skills Coalition, 2022
Public data and accountability are key to an inclusive economic recovery. We need data on how different workers and businesses are faring in the recovery, so we can hold policymakers accountable to equitable outcomes for those most impacted. Disparities and inequities in skills training programs can only be eliminated if there is high-quality…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Labor Force Development, Public Policy, Accountability
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Sahlberg, Pasi; Cobbold, Trevor – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Equity has become a central principle in educational policy and leadership around the world. However, there is a wide range of interpretations of equity and what it means in education. In this article we explore different definitions of educational equity from policy and leadership perspectives. Our aim is to give an operational definition of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement
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Khandal, Urvashi; Das, Saurabh; Gaur, Rajshri – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Education acts as an important catalyst for socioeconomic and democratic evolution in society and is a critical tool for building an equitable system. In our paper, we have historicized one of the most important educational policies, viz. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SAMSA) in India that carries large expectations to minimize the educational divide.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Criticism, Educational Policy, Educational History
Clark, Christina; Teravainen-Goff, Anne – National Literacy Trust, 2020
This report outlines findings from our ninth Annual Literacy Survey relating to children and young people's reading. 56,906 children and young people aged nine to 18 in the UK participated in our survey between January to March 2019. For the first time we also had information from 3,748 children aged 5 to 8 who completed a similar survey designed…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Reading, Foreign Countries
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Mukhopadhyay, Averi – SAGE Open, 2019
University campuses serve as second homes for students, teachers, administrators, and parents coming from diverse regions, religions, classes, castes, and different genders. Interaction and camaraderie between the major characters in the academe develop. The bonhomie that exists between the stakeholders of the academe has its own rules, rules that…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Social Class, Gender Differences, Speech Communication
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Bruce, Bertram C. – Educational Theory, 2017
Jane Addams's "Democracy and Social Ethics" is more than a historical artifact describing the work of a prominent social reformer. It is also a significant contribution to philosophy, especially in the area of social ethics. Moreover, though less widely acknowledged, Addams's work is essential for anyone who seeks an ethical vision for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Social Differences
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Morrice, Linda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Debates about integration, British values and identity, who can belong and who can become a citizen, have been fuelled by concerns about growing cultural diversity in the United Kingdom. To promote a shared sense of national identity and claim a universal and normative citizen subject, the UK government, along with many other western nations, has…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Gender Differences, Tests, Language Tests
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Grant, Alphonso Walter – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2020
In this article, I build on previous scholarship about Black identities, masculinities, and sexualities within Black visual culture and how their content and concepts reverberate within a larger white-dominant culture as viewed phenomenologically through Black lived experiences. This manuscript is a first-person, focused effort toward…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Blacks, Masculinity, Sexuality
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