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Donna M. Mertens; Bagele Chilisa – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2024
The international development community made a commitment to transformative goals related to social, economic, and environmental justice that requires them to leave no one behind. We argue that the use of transformative and indigenous frameworks for evaluation provide guidance towards achieving those goals. We provide a rationale for inclusion of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Global Approach, Transformative Learning, Social Justice
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Travis R. Moore; Luke Carmichael Valmadrid; Robyn Baragwanath; Nathaniel Haack; Lori Bakken – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
The ethical guidelines for the American Evaluation Association and the principles of community-based participatory evaluation both state the importance of equitable stakeholder involvement. Regardless of the evaluation approach, however, evaluators are often confronted with gatekeepers, or those who control the access to stakeholders, information,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Evaluators, Ethics, Community Involvement
Lucie Cerna; Luka Boeskens; Cecilia Mezzanotte; Samo Varsik; Ides Nicaise – OECD Publishing, 2024
The "OECD Review of Resourcing Schools to Address Educational Disadvantage in Ireland" provides an independent analysis meant to support Irish authorities in identifying ways to strengthen the resources and supports provided to students at risk of educational disadvantage in both DEIS and non-DEIS schools. The report serves three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educationally Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
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Almeida, Shamika; Ranabahu, Nadeera; Verma, Reetu – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: Much of the existing literature note how students' academic difficulties result from their background and lack of cultural capital. This paper aims to focus on internal structural inequality where people with particular backgrounds are disadvantaged within an institution. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use a case study approach…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Institutional Environment, Disadvantaged, Transitional Programs
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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
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Therese N. Hopfenbeck; Samantha-Kaye Johnston; Caroline Cresswell; Kit Double; Joshua McGrane – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This study evaluates the implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Career-Programme (CP) in secondary schools in Kent, United Kingdom. Launched by the IB and Kent County Council in 2012, the initiative offered students from disadvantaged areas the opportunity to participate in a programme to prepare them for future careers and/or…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Citizenship Responsibility, Capacity Building
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Rose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo; Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Ben – Comparative Education Review, 2022
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, key barriers to girls' secondary school access and learning include poverty, school inaccessibility, poor school quality, and lack of gender-sensitive practices in the classroom. The nongovernmental organization, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), provides a range of financial, pedagogical, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Equal Education
Scott Davies; Janice Aurini; Cathlene Hillier – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Can summer programs, as remedial supplements to regular schooling, extend learning opportunities and other benefits to disadvantaged students? To frame this question, we compare logics from "social reproduction" and "partial compensation" perspectives, and then apply them to a large mixed method study of four kinds of summer…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Summer Programs, Remedial Programs, Foreign Countries
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Erin K. Sullivan; Adam E. Ali – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Institutionalized oppression experienced by marginalized groups is central to post-secondary education and, if left unchallenged, will remain pervasive within academia (Lincoln, Y. S., & Stanley, C. A. (2021). The faces of institutionalized discrimination and systemic oppression in higher education: Uncovering the lived experience of bias and…
Descriptors: Kinesiology, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Power Structure
Morticia Brooks-Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Summer learning for many students in a large urban school district in Tennessee is an inequitable experience. Academic learning gaps in reading and mathematics may expand over the summer for economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minorities. One school district, recognizing an opportunity to narrow the gap, launched its Superintendent's…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Urban Areas, Attendance, Equal Education
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Kretchmar, Kerry; Sondel, Beth; Ferrare, Joseph J. – Educational Policy, 2018
In this article, we illustrate the relationships between Teach For America (TFA) and the deregulation of university-based teacher education programs. We use policy network analysis to create a visual representation of TFA's connections to individuals, organizations, and private corporations who are working to shift the way teachers are prepared.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Daniel Sparks; Christine Mulhern – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Counselors are a common school resource for students navigating complicated and consequential education choices. However, most students have limited access to school counselors. We study one of the largest U.S. policies to increase access to school counselors -- California's Supplemental School Counseling Program. The program increased the average…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Educational Policy, Program Evaluation
Institute for College Access & Success, 2023
State need-based financial aid programs are a key driver of college access and completion for lower-income students and racially marginalized students in California, most of whom attend public two- and four-year colleges and universities and come from families with annual incomes of less than $40,000. As the state's largest need-based financial…
Descriptors: State Programs, Access to Education, Minority Group Students, Student Financial Aid
Katie Taylor; Sheila Wilson – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
In 2022, the Washington State Legislature passed Second Substitute House Bill 2078 (SHB 2078) to establish the Outdoor Learning Grant Program. This initiative aims to enhance outdoor educational experiences for students in Washington public schools, particularly those historically underserved in science, thereby increasing equity and opportunity…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Equal Education, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
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Marsha L. Rutledge; Melanie Burgess; Kenya G. Bledsoe; Jaimie Stickl Haugen – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2023
In the age of accountability, school counselors are responsible for ensuring that their services are effective for all students by providing evidence of the impact of comprehensive school counseling programs (CSCPs) on student academic outcomes. Numerous studies provide empirical evidence of the impact of RAMP on student outcomes; however, none…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Training, School Counseling, Outcomes of Education
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