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Knutsson, Beniamin – Environmental Education Research, 2020
The extreme inequality in South African education is well-documented by researchers. There is also a rich literature concerned with education for sustainable development (ESD) in the country. The relationship between these two phenomena has, however, been sparsely investigated. Drawing on biopolitical theory and fieldwork conducted in South…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Living Standards, Foreign Countries
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Tao, Xin; Chunhua, Kang – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
Basic education is universal education, which aims to improve the basic quality of a nation's people. In the three decades since reform and opening up, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the quality of China's basic education. This article describes the path of development and changes in China's basic education over the past thirty years…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Educational Change
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Hatcher, Richard – Educational Review, 2011
Free schools are new state-funded but privately-run schools set up under the academies legislation. Free schools represent the most overtly market-oriented policy within the Conservative-led Coalition government's school reform programme in England and have provoked intense controversy, centering on issues of pupil attainment, social equality,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Free Schools, Democracy
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Ainscow, Mel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
As education systems in many countries respond to demands for higher standards, they face the challenge of how to achieve equity. Put simply, how can systems continue to raise overall levels of achievement whilst reducing the gap between higher and lower performing groups of learners? This paper reflects on evidence collected as a result of a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Access to Education
European Students' Union (NJ1), 2011
Following signals across Europe the European Students' Union (ESU) will focus its next working year on defending education as a public good, and a public responsibility. Since the very start of the new ESU team in July 2010 the ESU elected representatives have been working to develop a new political vision for the next ESU working year, that both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Economic Climate
European Students' Union (NJ1), 2010
The European Students' Union's (ESU's) vision regarding the Student Centered Learning concept stems from the fundamental belief that the learning process should have at its core learning objectives as they are prioritized by each individual students, also that each (potential) student should be empowered to define those objectives and progress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Organizations, College Students, Higher Education
European Students' Union (NJ1), 2011
The European Students' Union (ESU) feels the need to face the current crisis and to foster the student voice of all students across Europe. In this context its main priorities for 2012 will be: (1) Education as a public good; (2) Internal development; (3) Social dimension; and (4) Bologna and European cooperation. It is of great importance for ESU…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Organizations, College Students, Higher Education
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Colclough, Christopher; De, Anuradha – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In the early 1990s, large numbers of children in India remained out of school. International commitments to achieve education for all (EFA) globally meant that India was an important case for donors. India was pressed to accept aid for primary education, and agreed with some reluctance. Although subsequent donor involvement was substantial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Elementary Education, Access to Education
Ready, Douglas D. – Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers, politicians, and corporate leaders have focused reform efforts on the size of educational contexts. Hundreds of billions of public and private dollars have been invested to reduce the size and scope of both classrooms and schools (Lee & Ready, 2007). Unlike many education reforms, these downsizing…
Descriptors: Class Size, Equal Education, Minority Group Children, Educational Change
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Tracy, Stephen C. – Clearing House, 1992
Promotes and describes the notion of "charter schools" that would be organized by any qualified party, recognized by the state, and open to all comers. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Politics of Education
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Blank, Rolf K.; Archbald, Douglas A. – Clearing House, 1992
Discusses the record of magnet schools in increasing and equalizing student opportunity, building educational quality, and improving student learning. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Equal Education, Magnet Schools, Politics of Education
Jones, Narelle; Maxwell, Bev; Palmer, Bill – Online Submission, 1996
The People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic growth in its economy in recent years. It has a rapidly increasing population of approximately 1.2 billion people, though the population is still largely rural with about 80% of people living outside urban areas. China in its Education Law (1995) restated its commitment to universal education. In…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Enrollment Trends
Smoke, Trudy, Ed. – 1998
The collection of essays on the politics of adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction includes: "The Politics of Adult ESL literacy: Becoming Politically Visible" (Pamela Ferguson); "Learning To Be Legal: Unintended Meanings for Adult Schools" (Pia Moriarty); "The Relationship Between Knowing Our Students' Real…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anorexia Nervosa, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques