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Direct linkLucy Bailey – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This article employs critical discourse analysis of the Spear's Schools Index of 'the best private schools in the world', the first such global ranking of schools, to understand representations of elite education in globalised societies. It argues that the Index is a powerful text that exemplifies a global gaze -- an imagined perspective from…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
Markus Seyfried; Stefan Hollenberg; Judith Heße-Husain – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Research on student selection mostly focuses on accepted applicants and the effects of selection procedures. In this sense, most samples seem to be biased, which is well-reflected in the literature. The present study investigates student selection regarding students who had been initially de-selected but finally succeeded in the admission process.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Selective Admission, Stakeholders, Technology
Moosung Lee; Namsik Kim – Multicultural Education Review, 2024
This study examines the perceptions of university students from inter-ethnic marriage families (hereafter as multicultural students) on their experiences with affirmative action policy. Ten university multicultural students who entered leading universities through affirmative action amidst the highly competitive higher education entrance exams in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Affirmative Action, College Admission
Sahil Verma; Gurvinder Kaur – SAGE Open, 2024
With economies and business becoming knowledge intensive, the role of education industry has immensely risen in significance. This has given rise to a highly competitive landscape in higher education, with faculty retention as a major challenge for the institutions leading to negative consequences in terms of education quality, stakeholder…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Persistence, Barriers
Alberto Barea Vera; Fernando Gordillo Leon; Miguel Angel Perez Nieto – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: In the educational context, emotional and personality factors have been related to students' academic performance and quality of life; however, few studies have studied this relationship in depth in educational contexts where students have a high level of demand and competitiveness, as is the case of the students of the National…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Jennifer Feldman; Jennifer Wallace – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scholarships, Disadvantaged Environment
Download full textChristina 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)
Michael D. Bloem; Xiaowen Hu; Michael Hurwitz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Using the detailed college level data from the College Scorecard on students' post-college earnings from the near universe of four-year colleges, we assess the usefulness of going beyond comparing colleges based only on median earnings and analyze the descriptive relationship between college selectivity and earnings outcomes and how this…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Admission, Selective Admission, Salary Wage Differentials
Michael T. Albano – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Higher education in the United States has evolved to expand its reach to various diverse student populations. The student cohort in higher education that has seen exponential growth over the past few decades at elite liberal arts colleges are students who served in the military. Veteran students can contribute greatly to communities of elite…
Descriptors: College Students, Veterans, Liberal Arts, Group Membership
Stentiford, Lauren; Koutsouris, George; Allan, Alexandra – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Research has long demonstrated the exclusion and Othering experienced by young people with disabilities in education. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study conducted in an 'elite' sixth-form college in England, set against the backdrop of a shifting social, political, and cultural landscape, where neo-liberal discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics
Gross, Nora; Jacobs, Charlotte E.; Marar, Rekha; Lewis, Adam – Whiteness and Education, 2023
As U.S. elite independent schools become more racially inclusive, white students may perceive a shift in their social position. Using qualitative data from school climate surveys at 10 such schools, 2014-2018, we explore how white adolescent boys experience these shifts emotionally. We find that a subset of particularly vocal white boys express…
Descriptors: Whites, Males, Adolescents, Private Schools
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
Herbaut, Estelle – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Inequalities in access to elite higher education institutions are central in the horizontal dimension of social stratification in higher education. Previous studies have consistently shown large social inequalities in access from French "grandes écoles" (GE), but there is limited empirical evidence on the effect of alternative admission…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
Rachel Louise Stenhouse; Nicola Ingram – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In this article we make an argument for the importance of embodied cultural capital in the generation of class advantage through private school students' access to Oxbridge. Private schools in England continue to reproduce advantage (Variyan 2019), however, establishing exactly how students are advantaged through private schooling is not…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Advantaged, Social Class, Private Schools
