This qualitative case study was conducted to develop an understanding of professional learning communities and other types of professional development and their impact on building educator capacity on student outcomes in Allendale County School District. This is a small rural underperforming district in which student performance has not improved…

Teacher leadership development receives considerable attention in many educational reforms across the globe. This article reports on a unique partnership in Jerusalem that brings Israeli and Palestinian educators together to cultivate teacher leaders who facilitate professional communities and support continual improvement in teaching and…

In the digital age, academic libraries are increasingly spending more money on online resources and less on print materials (Wolff-Eisenberg, 2017). The decrease in print resources in libraries has led to available space for libraries to repurpose. As this trend continues, and more and more students bring their own individual electronic devices…

What is the role of the facilities organization in meeting today's challenges? In part, facilities ex­perts will continue the essential work they have done since the start of the pandemic: They will keep the campus safe and operational. But the fa­cilities organization can do more--more, in fact, than most institutions realize. They can help their…

One of the reasons attributed to the continuous decline in student performance and low educational outcomes in public schools is the poor leadership displayed by many principals. Despite the fact that there are no stringent criteria for the appointment of school principals or prerequisite qualifications, principals do have the potential to lead…

This research aims to reveal the education values of teachers; where they recognized the values, the importance of the values for teachers in performing their duties, the effects on their teaching methods, and how well the undergraduate program has equipped them with the competence of values education. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 56…

In the paper there are presented results of a research inquiry of current state and perspectives of primary and lower level of secondary school teachers' professional development (ISCED1-ISCED3) in Slovakia with a focus on improvement and further development of their didactic technological competences. In frame of the presented research…

The schools in the United States undergo reforms that involve the integration of data-intensive improvement process known as strategic improvement plans (SIPs). This process requires digital systems to set goals, create interventions, use and analyse student data, monitor and report SIPs. A challenge with digital systems is the integration of a…

On November 7, 2016, the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revisions to the 'Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Private Education'" was passed at the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th People's Congress. The decision included revisions to a total of 16…

Pakistan's Punjab province has witnessed numerous education reforms in recent years. Many of these reforms have been aimed at improving the well-documented low levels of learning by focusing on improving teaching quality. The rhetoric suggests that government schools, particularly those in rural areas with a more disadvantaged pupil base, are…

The relationship between input and output is one of the leading topics in modern educational discourse. In the current study, we focus on the GEMS (Growth and Effectiveness Measures for Schools) exams in Israel, which constitute a measure of a school's scholastic achievements and its academic-social climate. The GEMS is the equivalent of exams…

Low-fee private schools (LFPS) educate some of India's poorest children. They have grown dramatically over the last decade in India and have changed the country's educational landscape (Srivastava, 2016), yet there is little conclusive evidence that the schools significantly help their students. Our study aims to better understand why and how the…

The University of South Africa (UNISA) is one of the distance education universities that is shifting from open distance learning (ODL) to open distance e-learning (ODeL). UNISA started as a correspondence institution in the 1950s and it has since evolved into an ODeL university. The aim of this research was to assess and determine the maturity…

As a consequence of increasing pressures to enhance assessment and feedback in response to the National Student Satisfaction (NSS) and Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), universities continue to invest significant time and resources in making improvements to this area of practice. Since 2013 the University of Greenwich has adapted, enhanced and…

In Russian National Security Doctrine 2020, one of the improvements of higher education is the development of "interaction of educational organizations and research centers with industrial enterprises". The document "development of secondary vocational education system in order to prepare qualified workers in accordance with the…