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Emily V. Saland – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This single site case study investigated the phenomenon of narrowly missed on-time graduation (bachelor's degree completion within four years rather than five) among first-time, full-time undergraduate students at one private residential college in the Northeastern United States. Lengthening time to an undergraduate degree is a national trend; the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment, Time to Degree
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Abdelnasser Hosni Hussein – School Leadership Review, 2025
This qualitative cross-case study aimed to explore effective communication in suburban and urban schools. The study investigated K-12 leaders' perceptions of effective communication with parents in suburban and urban school districts. Three open-ended questions guided the research: 1) What are principals' perceptions of effective communication…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Organizational Communication, Parent School Relationship
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Mart, Mehmet; Waite, Sue – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Intentional approaches to designing and structuring learning environments apply outdoors as well as indoors, but the value of freedom and unrestricted play outside is well known. However, several factors influence teachers' provision of freedom within outdoor activities, and it is important to reflect on these variables and appropriate degrees of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Cultural Differences, Public Policy
Bozkus, Kivanc – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this research is to identify the problems experienced by teachers. The research was carried out with a survey pattern. Data were collected online from 4657 teachers working in Sanliurfa province. According to the results of the research, teachers often experience problems related to their personal rights, workload and education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Rights, Teaching Load, Problems
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Aiello, Paola; Pace, Erika Marie; Sharma, Umesh; Rangarajan, Rashmi; Sokal, Laura; May, Fiona; Gonzalez Gil, Francisca; Loreman, Tim; Malak, Saiful; Martín, Elena; McIlroy, Anne-Marie; Schwab, Susanne – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
An appreciative inquiry approach oriented eight semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers from Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Italy, Spain, Canada, Bangladesh and India to identify their intrinsic and extrinsic strengths and understand how they were able to translate them into practice during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, COVID-19, Pandemics
Donna Elam; Jill Feldman; Shauna Harps; Clarissa McKithen – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Tennessee's State Board of Education developed Educator Diversity Policy 5.700 to promote the recruitment and retention of educators from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Accordingly, districts throughout the state develop annual diversity goals that reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of their student population and strategies for…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Educational Policy, Diversity (Faculty), Employment Practices
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Meader, Kurt; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Education, 2022
There is a shortage of male elementary school teachers in the United States. Men who choose careers as elementary school teachers must be confident and ignore social barriers that keep other men from considering the profession. The current investigation seeks to understand the viewpoints of men who teach elementary school, a career predominated by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Males, Teacher Shortage
Gault, Barbara; Holtzman, Tessa; Reichlin Cruse, Lindsey – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2020
College students who are parents or caregivers of dependent children make up more than one in five U.S. undergraduates. Colleges need basic information about the experiences and outcomes of the student parents they serve, since these students face distinct challenges, including high rates of economic insecurity and significant time and caregiving…
Descriptors: College Students, Parents, Child Rearing, Student Needs
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Dodourova, Mariana; Clarkin, John E.; Lenkei, Balint – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Brexit, Britain's referendum to leave the European Union (EU), provided the backdrop for this study, although how or even if it will be implemented is uncertain. Most UK voters supported leaving the EU, yet an overwhelming majority of young people voted to remain. In an environment of economic and labor market ambiguity, we sampled 304 UK…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Career Choice, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Freiermuth, Mark R.; Tsunoda, Angela Karsten; Oliveira, Diego; Muramoto, Erica Maria; Nagatani, Luzinete; Nakajima, Yukiko – School Psychology International, 2023
This study discusses the disparity in numbers between Japanese children and their Brazilian immigrant peers concerning placement in Japanese special education classes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 stakeholders including Japanese nationals and Brazilian immigrants to see if there were any ways to explain the larger numbers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
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Naylor, Ryan; Mifsud, Nathan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
University campuses are increasingly diverse, reflecting substantial growth in student enrolments, but this has not translated to equitable outcomes for all students. While much attention has been focused on student retention and success, particularly for those from non-traditional backgrounds, dominant theoretical models rest on a limited notion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Cultural Capital, Social Differences
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Bishop, Elizabeth – Educational & Child Psychology, 2020
Aim(s): This research explored perspectives of play according to parents of Somali heritage and primary school practitioners, in an English primary school. At its core, it aimed to investigate the frequently overlooked cultural dimension of play and how this affects the education of Somali heritage children. The broader contentious concern of the…
Descriptors: Play, Cross Cultural Studies, Child Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Reyes, Marcela; Domina, Thurston – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
California state policy requires English language learners (ELL) to pass the California English Language Development Test and the California Standards Test in English Language Arts to be Reclassified Fluent English Proficient (RFEP). However, most districts make it more difficult for ELL students to reclassify by setting reclassification…
Descriptors: State Policy, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, School Districts
Eyre, Jan; Hipkins, Rosemary – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2019
This research, which is the second part of a two-part study, was commissioned by the New Zealand Productivity Commission to inform their study of the future of work in New Zealand. The main research question asks, in essence: In what ways are secondary school subject-choice systems, and students' subject choices, positioned to respond to future of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Course Selection (Students), Secondary School Students
Pearson, Denise; Heckert, Kelsey – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2020
The United States leads the world in the number of incarcerated persons per 100,000. In today's global economy, these numbers represent huge wastes in human capital, especially when you consider the inequitable nature of the American criminal justice system, as witnessed by the disproportionate racial and ethnic composition, types of crimes, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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