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Direct linkEmily Winchip – Educational Review, 2024
The global education reform movement has led to the development of quasi-markets and the promotion of business-like operation of schools with the goal of improving education for students and opportunities for teachers. While many types of schools have been influenced by marketisation, the international school market is a prime example of how such…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Commercialization, International Schools
Rankin, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Doctoral education is an expensive and difficult endeavor. Program faculty are interested in finding students who will be successful in completing their courses and obtaining employment. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is often used to assess a student's readiness for the rigors of graduate education. A student's readiness for doctoral…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, College Entrance Examinations, Student Diversity, Doctoral Students
Download full textHänni, Miriam; Kriesi, Irene; Neumann, Jörg – Education Sciences, 2022
Upper secondary education in Switzerland is divided into a general and a vocational path. Approximately two thirds of adolescents attend the vocational path. The initial vocational education and training (IVET) can be combined with a federal vocational baccalaureate (FVB), which enables graduates to enter universities of applied sciences. The…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Leemann, Regula Julia; Pfeifer Brändli, Andrea; Imdorf, Christian – Education Sciences, 2022
In Switzerland, baccalaureate school is still considered to be the royal road to a university education and the elite path for the social reproduction of the upper class. However, cantonal enrollment to baccalaureate school varies widely due to Swiss federalism. There is a recurring debate on whether access to baccalaureate school is fair and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Academic Education, College Preparation, Foreign Countries
Steven M. Urdegar; Kareem D. Piper – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2023
Charter schools have continued to draw an increasingly larger share of the students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), such that as of October 2022, 24.6% (n=82,635) of the District's students attended a charter school (Urdegar, 2022). This growth can be accounted for by examining changes to the proportion of the students enrolled at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Student Mobility, Enrollment Trends
Sheryl MacMath; Barbara Salingré; Awneet Sivia – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Regardless of the commitments that universities and teacher education programs (TEPs) have publicly stated regarding equity, diversity, inclusion, or decolonization (EDID), rarely do these commitments impact their admission policies or practices. Through examining a small program's efforts at implementing EDID change over a three-year period, this…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Equal Education
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Hajar, Anas – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
England has experienced recent growth in the prevalence of private tutoring (PT). The qualitative study reported in this article aims to explore the perceptions of 14 Year 6 pupils and their teachers from three state-maintained primary schools in East Kent on PT participation and its impact on grammar school admissions. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Tutoring, Tutors
Darrell Lovell; Daniel J. Mallinson – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
Test-optional admissions policies have been steadily, though slowly, expanding throughout higher education institutions for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, sparked a rapid expansion of institutions adopting test-optional policy. Using a diffusion of innovations framework, this study assesses the institutional characteristics that shaped…
Descriptors: Testing, Higher Education, Alternative Assessment, COVID-19
Pao-Yin Lin; Pei-Yu Chen; Yuan-Chen Liu; Hsiao-Ching Yang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
In Taiwan, the education system places a strong emphasis on higher education. Students who perform well in the National High School Entrance Examination are given priority admission to public high schools, while those with lower scores tend to enroll in vocational schools. It's worth noting that students with low scores in this examination often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational High Schools, High School Students
Yuzhou Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation studies a few topics in industrial organization. In the first two chapters, I study the education market from the perspective of industrial organization. Chapter 3 studies second-price auctions with participation costs. Chapters 1 and 2 study the high school market of a large city in China that introduced a policy allowing public…
Descriptors: Industrial Education, Administrative Organization, Public Schools, High Schools
Sissing, Shelby; Boterman, Willem R. – Comparative Education, 2023
In 2015, Amsterdam implemented a centralised primary school admissions policy, constraining school choice after a long history of highly autonomous schools and free parental choice which has resulted, in part, in the city's segregated schooling environment. Introduced out of concerns of inequality for parents and disorganisation by schools, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, School Segregation, Admission (School)
Talia Gerstle; Amanda Schmidt – Blueprint Labs, 2023
This publication summarizes an academic review paper on preschool effectiveness, "Lottery Evidence on the Impact of Preschool in the United States: A Review and Meta-Analysis" by Jesse Bruhn and Emily Emick. The 44 papers summarized fall into three categories: studies of three model preschool programs begun in the 1960s known as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation
David Grissmer; Thomas White; Richard Buddin; Mark Berends; Daniel Willingham; Jamie DeCoster; Chelsea Duran; Chris Hulleman; William Murrah; Tanya Evans – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Core Knowledge curriculum is a K-8 curriculum focused on building students General Knowledge about the world they live in that is hypothesized to increase reading comprehension and Reading/English-LA achievement. This study utilizes an experimental design to evaluate the long term effects of attending Charter schools teaching the Core…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Core Curriculum, General Education
Amy Roth McDuffie; David Slavit; Dan Goldhaber; Roddy Theobald; Nicole Griggs – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This study investigated the underexplored topic of teacher preparation program admissions processes by interviewing faculty and analyzing program documents. We investigated how 31 K-12 mathematics and science teacher preparation programs (MSTPPs) and faculty attend to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and racial justice (DEIJ). Specific…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Access to Education
