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Howard, Frances – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2020
Art education is often praised for its engaging programmes and inclusive pedagogies, with many initiatives created with the intention of widening access for those who are deemed to be lacking. This article investigates one such programme -- the young people's Arts Award, which is a nationally recognised qualification for young people aged 11-25. I…
Descriptors: Art Education, Awards, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Araya, Pablo; Dussaillant, Francisca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
We investigate the effect of attending selective secondary schools belonging to the "Bicentenario" schools program in Chile, a free education option that is intended to give vulnerable students everywhere in Chile a unique educational opportunity, in the period from 2011 to 2014. By using propensity score methods, we find that attending…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Secondary School Students, Educational Opportunities, Educational History
Smith, Michelle C. Howell; Stevens, Jared – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, 2019
High-quality afterschool and summer programming serve an important role in Nebraska communities. They engage students emotionally, intellectually, and socially (National Research Council, 2015). They provide safe and caring supervision for children who might otherwise be unsupervised outside of school hours, they also discourage negative…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Attendance
Global Partnership for Education, 2017
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the only multilateral partnership and fund dedicated exclusively to education in the world's poorest countries. The partnership includes developing country partners, donor countries, multilateral agencies, civil society, teachers, philanthropic foundations and the private sector. GPE brings together…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Global Education
Friedlaender, Diane – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2019
What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? This report and the accompanying research brief endeavor to answer that question by examining a humanistic and systems thinking approach to cultural change that took…
Descriptors: Humanism, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach
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Liu, Meredith – Education Next, 2013
Teachers are increasingly recognized as the most important in-school factor in student achievement, yet the quality of the country's K-12 teaching force is not up to snuff. Much of the blame has been placed on education schools, which have come under fire for failing to produce enough high-performing teachers. Both initial certification programs,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Quality, Schools of Education, Program Costs
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Farooq, Muhammad Sabil; Kai, Yuan Tong – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2016
Education means all round development, this all round development means intellectual, social and emotional development. It is only education that can mould the behavior of an individual. READ (Rural Education and Development) Foundation is notfor-profit organization established in 1994 to address the dire need for education and literacy in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
Bartolomei, Mercedes Ramirez – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Higher education institutions are well positioned to provide students with meaningful educational opportunities, to prepare them for lives of impact and service to their communities by investing their acquired knowledge to address critical societal needs. Furthermore, a sound college education is particularly important to students' personal,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Experience, Educational Quality
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Surr, Wendy – Afterschool Matters, 2012
This article describes a new paradigm for accountability that envisions afterschool programs as learning organizations continually engaged in improving quality. Nearly 20 years into the era of results-based accountability, a new generation of afterschool accountability systems is emerging. Rather than aiming to test whether programs have produced…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Environment, After School Education, After School Programs
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O'Dwyer, John; Aksit, Necmi; Sands, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
The Eastern Anatolian project extends opportunity and access to quality education. The study examines the selection and learning systems adopted within the framework of gender equity, family background and higher order skills. Performance data on a range of selection measures and the initial programme are analysed. Results show that selection was…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness
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Islam, Tofazzal – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This paper examines how this mega-university offers increasing access to cost-effective, equitable and flexible higher education by analyzing data from primary and secondary sources, identifies challenges impacting the continued growth of enrollment in distance education, and outlines opportunities for increasing access to higher education through…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2009
In this article, the author talks about "the Harlem miracle" described by "New York Times" columnist David Brooks and the big effects produced by no-excuses schools. The author first examines "economic inequality" in Berliner's (2009) more specific terms--seven out-of-school factors that affect achievement. These are:…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Body Weight, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Silver, Harold – Tech Educ Ind Training, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
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McBay, Shirley M. – Issues in Science and Technology, 1989
Presented are nine principles which could be used to promote an increase in minority representation in the educational pipeline. Examples of programs which employ these principles are given. (CW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Educational Supply
Middlehurst, Robin; Woodfield, Steve – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2004
This is a report on the quality review of distance learning in a sample of five countries. The report was commissioned by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's (CHEA's) International Commission in order to understand better the nature of existing regulatory arrangements in the context of growth in electronically supported learning and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Quality Control, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
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