Alternative provision (AP), in particular Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), have been criticised as a forgotten part of the education system, side-lined and stigmatised as somewhere only the very worst behaved pupils go. In response to this criticism, PRUs have now been academised to become AP Academies and new AP schools have been set up--AP Free…

The conceptual framework in this brief provides an overview of the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance/retention (ERSEA) strategies Head Start may use to engage families with a spectrum of needs, adversities, and strengths. The examples and practices highlighted in this brief illustrate ways programs have approached a…

Background: The equality of mental health care must be improved for Australian youth who experience disadvantage (YED). The unique needs of YED means that it is essential mental health help-seeking is understood through their lens. Objective: This systematic review aimed to understand (1) what is currently known about mental health literacy (MHL)…

While the issue of advancing equity occupies the pages of many education journals across the world and pursuing it in schools and classrooms is a common instructional goal, there is an obvious absence of established school policies combined with pedagogies on how to achieve educational equity. Therefore, equity solution driven by inclusion,…

We collected field observation notes, accessed student demographic data, and interviewed sixteen Black high school youth (50% male; M[subscript age] = 16.1) to explore experiences that contributed to their personal agency within a supportive school. Students were recruited from a public academy school that was designed to support youth who are…

Many factors contribute to the academic success of elementary age students, but one must not overlook the importance of the classroom teacher. Measuring teacher absenteeism is difficult as it is not factored into local, state, or federal accountability requirements and teacher attendance policies are created locally through collective bargaining…

Managing behavior is a challenge at home and school for many families in disadvantaged areas. When students get to school, it can become an increased or heightened problem due to the school managing hundreds and in many cases thousands of students per day and teachers managing on average between 25-30 students during every part of their day. The…

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…

Recruiting career changers into teaching has emerged as a part of a strategy by governments worldwide to address complex teacher shortage problems in hard-to-staff schools. In this paper, we present a case study of two career change teachers and trace their career journey into Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and the teaching profession in two…

This study explored the lived experiences of 21 graduate students in counselor education programs in talking about race, racism, oppression, and privilege in the classroom. We identified four themes from the data that will be shared in the study findings with implications for counselor education, counselor training, and research.

The present study examines the effectiveness of an After-School Life Skills (ASLS) intervention to improve the life skills of 110 students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds at public schools of urban Bangalore in south India. These students completed ASLS intervention from 2014 to 2018 during which the life skills were assessed on a yearly…

Introduction: Post-secondary institutions are increasingly promoting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in health professions education. Yet, institutions continue to be spaces of exclusion and marginalization for health professional students from marginalized groups. Purpose: To explore the education experiences of health professionals from…

How could assessment inclusively consider the diversity of students? In higher education, the most common answer is: through individual assessment accommodations. Inclusive assessment design has also been promoted to foster accessibility for all students. However, both of these approaches have largely drawn on the procedural understanding of…

The number of schools delivering a curriculum in English outside an English-speaking nation is growing both in scale and importance, reaching 12,000 by 2021. Such schools are traditionally staffed by expatriate teachers and mainly from Britain and North America. In recent years, a newer arena of commercially driven "non-traditional"…

The problem that was addressed in this study is the high rate of teacher attrition at a K--8 Title I school in Arizona. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of the teachers who have chosen to remain at this school rather than leave. The theoretical framework of the study was based on Herzog's motivational…