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Education Resource Strategies, 2024
The pandemic brought new attention to the challenges high schools face, and, concurrently, communities are raising their expectations for graduates and demanding that high schools set students up to succeed and persist with college and career. While districts are creating inspiring visions for high school graduates and aspirational descriptions of…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, High Schools, Academic Persistence
Pizarro Milian, Roger – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Conventional scholarship within the sociology of education and organizations posits that schools achieve legitimacy by virtue of conforming to normative standards, abiding by government regulations and mimicking the forms of successful peers. Through this study, an examination of a sample of 751 Canadian for-profit colleges (FPCs) is performed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Advancement, Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges
Baker, Vicki L.; Greer, Jane; Lunsford, Laura G.; Pifer, Meghan J.; Ihas, Dijana – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
We conducted a content-analysis of the websites of 100 institutional members of the Council of Undergraduate Research in order to examine the relationship between messages communicated on websites as compared to messages expressed within institutional procedures and policies. Findings show that public research institutions were more likely than…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Content Analysis, Web Sites, Administrative Principles
Coates, Margaret Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore the cultural manifestation of grit in two freshman academy environments and describe factors of grit that support student success. This study used purposeful sampling to select sites and participants. Data were collected through: administration of Douglas' (1982) grid and group 24-question…
Descriptors: School Culture, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Success
McIsaac, Jessie-Lee; Storey, Kate; Veugelers, Paul J.; Kirk, Sara F. L. – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: Health-promoting schools (HPS) constitute an internationally recognised approach that connects health and education in a planned, integrated and holistic way. There is considerable variability, however, in how HPS is implemented and recent research has attempted to clarify the key functions of implementation. A provincial HPS strategy…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Education, Program Implementation, Case Studies
Gannon, Susanne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
This paper explores the effects of audit cultures on school education through a highly personal reading of the My School website, launched in Australia in 2010. It situates two personal narratives, from the points of view of student and teacher, alongside the other stories available about two of the secondary schools listed on the website.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Web Sites, Story Telling
James, Chris; Connolly, Michael; Brammer, Steve; Fertig, Mike; James, Jane; Jones, Jeff – School Leadership & Management, 2014
In England, governing bodies continue to be responsible for the conduct of publicly funded schools. This article compares the governing of publicly funded primary schools (for 5-11 year olds) and secondary schools (for 11-18 year olds). The research analysed policy documents and the governing of 16 primary and 14 secondary schools. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration
Frost, Melanie; Little, Angela W. – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper explores questions of relevance to Ethiopian primary education policy. It examines (i) the match/mismatch between government-prescribed pedagogy and actual student learning practices and (ii) the relationship between those practices and school, class and teacher level factors. The paper employs evidence from government documents on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Alignment (Education)
Lambright, Kristina T.; Alden, Allison F. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
Using data collected from three colleges, the authors examine how faculty members view the level of support for service-learning at their respective institutions. There is variation among the institutions in perceived instructor and administrator support for service-learning, availability of support services, and attitudes regarding consideration…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Service Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Sustainability
Neault, Lynn Ceresino; Piland, William E. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Lower division transfer preparation for the university has been the primary mission of community colleges since their inception creating an important pathway to baccalaureate degree attainment for many students who may not otherwise have the opportunity for higher education. Once considered fairly straightforward, the transfer pathway has become…
Descriptors: State Policy, Local Government, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Morris, Rebecca – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper presents the results of an analysis of the admissions criteria used by the first two waves of secondary Free Schools in England. The type of criteria and their ranked order is explored and their potential impact on the school composition is considered. The findings demonstrate the diversity of criteria being used by this new type of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Admission Criteria, Access to Education, Educational Policy
Stoten, David William – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the changing nature of quality assurance systems within the sixth form college sector. Design/methodology/approach: Ten sixth form colleges were surveyed across England and staff from varying levels within college hierarchies questioned about how quality assurance systems were implemented. Research involved…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance
Drame, Elizabeth R.; Frattura, Elise – Urban Education, 2011
Public charter schools across the country are struggling to better serve a range of students with disabilities. Using the approach of a participatory evaluation, a K-8 college preparatory school community of teachers, administrators, parents, and students were better able to define those practices that impeded or supported a high-quality proactive…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Charter Schools, Position Papers, Case Studies
Jahan, Monira; Akhter, Selina; Habib, Rakib – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Distance education has emerged out of social compulsion, the dynamics of change and new cultures. It was the failure of traditional systems to be able to meet the demand in countries, where the resources available for tertiary education are limited, which basically gave birth to the new trend of education known as open and distance education. This…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Needs, Open Universities, Distance Education
Leihy, Peodair; Salazar, Jose – Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2011
Education for sustainability (EfS) refers to education that builds the knowledge, skills and dispositions for living sustainably. It is bringing sustainability--for some time a prominent concern within higher education--firmly within the fold of teaching and learning, a key aspect of universities' core business. Is EfS an unstoppable juggernaut in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Agencies, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
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