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Hilarius Kofi Kofinti – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
While many scholars recognize and criticize the politicization of education policies, scholarly attention to the strategies politicians utilize to politicize educational policy discourses remains limited. Focusing on the officials of Ghana's two major political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, High School Students, Political Attitudes
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Khalid, Aliya – Comparative Education, 2023
Through a comparative analysis of policy texts from UN organisations and scholarly work since the 1990s this paper examines how mothers are portrayed in simplistic terms, as educated thus beneficial for their daughters' schooling, or deprived of education causing detriment to their daughters' future prospects. Drawing on semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Daughters, Access to Education
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Hollingshead, Aleksandra; Lowrey, K. Alisa; Howery, Kathy – Educational Policy, 2022
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a scientifically validated framework that has been included in policy like the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 and the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. However, studies have pointed out the variability in definitions and implementation surrounding UDL. In order to clarify this conversation,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Specialists, Policy Analysis, Educational Legislation
National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 2021
The need for more quality public schools for U.S. children is as great as ever. One policy solution to help meet this demand is to grow more of what is already working. To expand access to existing high-quality charter schools, policymakers and authorizers remove barriers and make it easier to grow enrollment and expand locations. Behind every…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Achievement, State Policy, Institutional Characteristics
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Brooks, Rachel – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Comparative studies of European social policy have pointed to significant differences with respect to the way in which diversity is valued and understood, contrasting nations that have adopted strongly compulsory and integrationist policies with others that have pursued more voluntary and pluralistic approaches. Within the higher education sector…
Descriptors: Diversity, Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Policy
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Rainford, Jon – Educational Review, 2023
Widening participation in England has been framed around two primary needs; raising attainment and raising aspiration. Whilst aspiration is complex, policy definitions often frame it in narrow economic terms and see access to higher education as primarily about developing a workforce, the underlying logic being that to improve social mobility that…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Higher Education, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
Tareena Musaddiq; Farah Said – Grantee Submission, 2023
In 2004, the government of Punjab, Pakistan introduced a conditional cash assistance program for girls attending secondary schools. We exploit variations in exposure to the program across cohorts and regions to estimate the long run effects of the program on women's marriage and fertility decisions, maternal healthcare utilization and the health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Education, Secondary School Students
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Ridge, Natasha Y.; Shami, Soha; Kippels, Susan M. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2016
In the face of rising demand for private schooling in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar, a lack of affordable schooling options, monopolistic behavior of private education providers, and unpredictable government regulations have created a complex and unequal education sector. This research employs a mixed methods comparative approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Mixed Methods Research, Comparative Education
OECD Publishing, 2018
Taking the students' perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2017) with various education policies adopted…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
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Callahan, Rebecca M.; Shifrer, Dara – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: English learner (EL) education policy has long directed schools to address EL students' linguistic "and" academic development without furthering inequity or segregation. The recent Every Student Succeeds Act reauthorization expresses a renewed focus on evidence of equity, effectiveness, and opportunity to learn. We propose that…
Descriptors: Equal Education, High School Students, English Language Learners, Course Selection (Students)
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Jamshidi, Laleh; Arasteh, Hamidreza; NavehEbrahim, Abdolrahim; Zeinabadi, Hassanreza; Rasmussen, Palle Damkjaer – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
In most developing countries, as the young population increase in number and consequently, the demands for higher education rise, the governments cannot respond to all demands. Accordingly, they develop private higher education sectors as an alternative solution. In developed countries, some moving factors are influential in creation and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Privatization, Private Colleges
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Anglin-Jaffe, Hannah – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
This article explores the role of the Deaf child as peer educator. In schools where sign languages were banned, Deaf children became the educators of their Deaf peers in a number of contexts worldwide. This paper analyses how this peer education of sign language worked in context by drawing on two examples from boarding schools for the deaf in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Boarding Schools
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Pechar, Hans; Andres, Lesley – Higher Education Policy, 2011
All Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have experienced an unprecedented expansion in higher education during the second half of the twentieth century. This was only possible because higher education became part of national welfare policies. OECD countries differ, however, with respect to the significance of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Student Financial Aid, Welfare Services
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Weinstock, Daniel M. – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
In thinking about how a just state should assess and respond to inequalities in the distribution of particular goods, such as health and education, attention should be paid, first, to the causes of inequality with respect to these goods, and second, to the question of whether it is possible, and, if possible, morally appropriate, to enact policy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Wang, Xiaobing; Rozelle, Scott; Sharbono, Brian; Adams, Jennifer; Shi, Yaojiang; Yue, Ai; Li, Hongbin; Glauben, Thomas – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Many educational systems have struggled with the question about how best to give out financial aid. In particular, if students do not know the amount of financial aid that they can receive before they make a decision about where to go to college and what major to study, it may distort their decision. This study utilizes an experiment (implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Decision Making, Student Financial Aid
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