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Jim Watterston; Yong Zhao – Prospects, 2024
Is it possible to reduce the time students spend in classrooms and schools? Would such a reduction be better for learning and retaining teachers? How should learning be more flexibly enacted in the post-pandemic era? This article discusses the possibilities of rethinking school participation and calls for schools to reconsider the necessity and…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Luciane Nascimento; Andreia Cruz; Aline Moura; Igor Costa – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The article presents an analysis of Brazilian teaching work and its different expressions in the face of the neoliberal drive of the last three decades. The aim is to understand how market dynamics consolidate a new materiality through the consequences of neoliberalism on/for teaching work. The analysis is based on a Marxist perspective, through…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Hours, Commercialization, Educational Change
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Constance A. Lightner; Carin A. Lightner-Laws – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
As COVID-19 continues to impact various business sectors, university administrators have steadily pushed for all academic units to resume on campus operations and activities; conversely, faculty and students have expressed increased interest in continuing online teaching/learning. We aim to mitigate this "tug-of-war" between…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Flexible Scheduling, Business Administration Education, Statistics
Nores, Milagros; Friedman-Krauss, Allison; Barnett, W. Steven – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
To understand the use of early care and education (ECE) programs in New Jersey, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducted a representative survey of parents of children under age 5 (not yet in kindergarten) about their use of (non-parental) child care. The survey was conducted between May 25th and June 13rd, 2022, with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Care, Infants
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Houlden, Shandell; Veletsianos, George – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Flexible approaches to online learning are gaining renewed interest in some part due to their capacity to address emergent opportunities and concerns facing higher education. Importantly, flexible approaches to online learning are purported to be democratizing and liberatory, broadening access to higher education and enabling learners to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Access to Education, Criticism
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Cacicio, Sarah; Shell, Alison R.; Tare, Medha – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
In the hours following the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent shutdown, educators across the nation were suddenly tasked with teaching online. As Jen Vanek describes in "Supporting Quality Instruction: Building Teacher Capacity as Instructional Designers (Part 1 of 3)" (EJ1344704), the majority of educators had to quickly learn and…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Education, Teaching Methods, COVID-19
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Coleman, David; Patton, Katie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
The authors of this article concede that Annmarie Guzy's lead article for this volume of "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council" speaks of a familiar challenge in the Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program. The nearly universal and dramatic increase in the number of AP, IB, and/or Dual Enrollment credit hours among their…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Dual Enrollment, Educational Innovation, Educational Change
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Tremp, Peter; Hildbrand, Thomas – Higher Education Forum, 2015
The 1999 European Bologna Declaration aims to create a European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Structural elements of the study programs as well as content-related guidelines are defined. The Bologna Process has frequently been criticized for over-standardizing comparable structures, standards, and processes, and thus for not sufficiently taking…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Universities, Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation
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Saltmarsh, Sue; Randell-Moon, Holly – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
University work-life balance policies increasingly offer academic workers a range of possible options for managing the competing demands of work, family, and community obligations. Flexible work arrangements, family-friendly hours and campus facilities, physical well-being and mental health programs typify strategies for formally acknowledging the…
Descriptors: Risk, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty, Well Being
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Flannery, Marie; McGarr, Oliver – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
Irish public policy strongly promotes greater flexibility in higher education. This review paper examines Irish policy conceptualisations of flexible learning. The review finds that the promotion of flexible learning is positioned within strongly economistic discourses of lifelong learning, and primarily in human capital terms of meeting the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Flexible Scheduling, Lifelong Learning
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Blair, Randee – Gifted Child Today, 2011
Online courses specifically designed for gifted students allow these students the chance to work with others who are their intellectual peers. Additionally, the teachers of these online courses for the gifted generally have greater background knowledge in current best practice for gifted students and more substantial experience working with this…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academically Gifted, Online Courses, Interaction
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Case-Smith, Jane; Holland, Terri – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This article presents a rationale for specialized services personnel to use fluid models of service delivery and explains how specialized services personnel make decisions about the blend of service delivery methods that will best serve a child. Method: The literature on occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Speech Language Pathology
Ableidinger, Joe; Kowal, Julie – Public Impact, 2010
As the United States continues to grapple with unacceptable education results, "a great teacher for every student" has risen to a national imperative. In response, many districts have increased retention efforts through teacher induction programs, professional development, mentoring, and other strategies. But education actually has lower…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Teacher Effectiveness, Incentives
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Shortt, Thomas L.; Thayer, Yvonne V. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
High school block scheduling is in its earliest stages. Although time structures have changed, usage has not. Block schedules are threatened when curriculum standards and student mobility are ignored, courses are improperly sequenced, funding for increased personnel needs is inadequate, performing-arts instruction is not accommodated, and…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Flexible Scheduling, High Schools, Principals
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Dalton, Dan R.; Mesch, Debra J. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1990
Implementation of an experimental flexible scheduling program was basis for a naturally occurring field experiment. Results of a six-year assessment indicate significant reductions in employee absenteeism in a large subunit of a public utility company after the flexible scheduling intervention for the experimental group. No such changes were…
Descriptors: Employee Absenteeism, Flexible Scheduling, Labor Turnover, Program Evaluation
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