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Collins, Jonathan; Hernandez, Jimmy; Horsley, Erica; Throndsen, Jennifer – Utah State Board of Education, 2020
During the 2017 General Session, the Legislature passed House Bill 212, "Incentive for Effective Teachers in High Poverty Schools," which provides an annual salary bonus to eligible teachers in high poverty schools. This report is provided to the Education Interim Committee to evaluate the extent to which a salary bonus improves…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Poverty, Incentives, Program Evaluation
Danielle Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation uses qualitative research to examine the contextual factors that affect high poverty urban school districts and what successful district leadership looks like in these spaces. Using the lens of Critical Race Theory the stories of six successful urban district leaders is examined to determine the dispositions and characteristics…
Descriptors: Poverty Areas, Urban Schools, School Districts, Context Effect
Plamen Nikolov; Nusrat Jimi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Evidence on educational returns and the factors that determine the demand for schooling in developing countries is extremely scarce. We use two surveys from Tanzania to estimate both the actual and perceived schooling returns and subsequently examine what factors drive individual misperceptions regarding actual returns. Using ordinary least…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Outcomes of Education, Income
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Maila, Kodi Sannie; Mabasa, Layane Thomas – Youth & Society, 2023
The article focuses on the school-based support that youths who are heading households get from public schools in South Africa. It is based on the study that was conducted focusing on the extent to which schools support youths who head households. The study adopted the qualitative research methodological approach where three methods were used to…
Descriptors: Youth, Heads of Households, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
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Aliaga-Linares, Lissette; Romero, Troy – Teaching Sociology, 2023
International travel has long been considered a key pedagogical strategy for global learning. Yet very little is known about whether study-abroad experiences increase students' awareness of the impact of tourism as a global phenomenon. In this study, we assessed students' learning through a content analysis of their journals and final essays from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Tourism, Foreign Countries, Social Responsibility
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Mason-Williams, Loretta; Bettini, Elizabeth; Morris Mathews, Hannah; Boveda, Mildred; Rodgers, Wendy – Remedial and Special Education, 2023
A schools' collective social assets (i.e., school culture, administrative support, and satisfied colleagues) are especially important for beginning teachers at higher risk of attrition, including special educators, teachers of color, teachers in high-poverty schools, and teachers in schools serving predominantly students of color. These teachers…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Minority Group Teachers
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Lee, Supawadee Cindy – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2023
The Developmental Screening, Monitoring, and Enrichment (DSME) program for low-income children and families is an initiative developed to support the goal of the Healthy People 2020 and 2030 that aims to increase the number of healthy young children to be ready for school. The 8-week DSME program focuses on reducing health disparities and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Enrichment Activities, Early Intervention, Access to Health Care
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Ochieng, Vollan Okoth; Waithanji Ngware, Moses – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2023
The onset of COVID-19 made governments and other education actors prioritize distance learning, particularly through education technologies (EdTechs). Most sub-Saharan African countries adopted and adapted this approach. This paper examines the extent of EdTechs' deployment in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic among marginalized and vulnerable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology
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Caylee J. Cook; Steven Howard; Gaia Scerif; Rhian Twine; Kathleen Kahn; Shane Norris; Catherine Draper – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: While there is now considerable evidence in support of a relationship between executive function (EF) and academic success, these findings almost uniformly derive from Western and high-income countries. Yet, recent findings from low- to -middle-income countries have suggested that patterns of EF and academic skills differ in these…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Academic Ability, School Readiness
Freidenbloom, David Carl – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological study sought to examine the lived experiences of Pennsylvania school leaders in elementary or middle schools with an economically disadvantaged student population of 50% or greater and English Language Arts proficiency exceeding 60% as measured by the 2021-2022 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment. Across the Commonwealth…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
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Gomes Junior, José Carmino; Dalila Corbari, Sandra; Kniess, Cláudia Terezinha; Nogueira da Silva, Gérsica Moraes; Piontkewicz, Simone Caroline; de Souza Melo, Maiara; Silveira Carbone, Amanda; Mantovaneli, Oklinger, Jr.; Martins Sobral, Maria do Carmo; Philippi Junior, Arlindo; Fernandez, Felipe; de Aguiar Dutra, Ana Regina; Birch, Robert Samuel; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aim to propose a methodological mapping approach for the evaluation of dissertations and theses of graduate programs in the area of environmental sciences in Brazil in relation to the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach: The research is characterized as exploratory with qualitative/quantitative…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Well Being, Correlation
Christopher A. Candelaria; Ishtiaque Fazlul; Cory Koedel; Kenneth A. Shores – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
We study the progressivity of state funding of school districts under Tennessee's weighted student funding formula. We propose a simple definition of progressivity based on the difference in exposure to district per-pupil funding between poor and non-poor students. The realized progressivity of district funding in Tennessee is much smaller--only…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Equalization Aid, State Aid, Educational Finance
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Enslin, Penny; Tjiattas, Mary – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
Although measurement is widely misused in education, it is indispensable in addressing the problems of injustice in global educational opportunity. Considering how the case can be made for legitimate use of measurement in normative analysis and argument, we explore ways in which metrics have featured in the formulation of theories of justice, with…
Descriptors: Measurement, Educational Opportunities, Social Justice, Global Approach
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Erin Ruth Baker; Rong Huang; Qingyang Liu; Carmela Battista; Jamie Gahtan – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Research with older children and adults reliably demonstrates that individuals raised in poverty tend to evaluate concerns related to moral concerns (i.e., related to harm, welfare, and justice) differently than do wealthier individuals. However, little work has examined these patterns in young children. Children (N=214, Mage =…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Preschool Children, Poverty, Social Differences
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Hani Yousef Jarrah – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The pandemic brought a massive shift in traditional education strategies. Educational literature is focusing on case studies for online-learning platforms. This research aims to break down the adaptations in teaching styles and curriculums across different countries due to the worldwide shift towards newer technology and learning mediums to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty, College Students
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