Despite notable progress in narrowing the global gender gap in education, women's participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields remains disproportionately low. This study investigates the substantial impact of parental, particularly maternal, gender role attitudes on their children's major choices in China. To…

Despite great progress, attaining the goal of universal primary education (UPE) has stalled, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This study critically examines how UPE is experienced by out-of-school children and families in three rural villages in Sierra Leone. Drawing on data from 101 qualitative interviews, this study applies relational…

Sense of belonging entails students' comfort level in the classroom and experienced faculty and peer support. A diminished sense of belonging can hamper academic performance. Therefore, it is important to know which student groups may experience weaker belonging and whether these disparities extend to students' authenticity, or perception they can…

This report examines how enrolled undergraduate students and parents of undergraduates view higher education and how they pay for it. The report considers education funding sources--from parent and student income and savings to scholarships, grants, and borrowed funds--and evaluates trends in payment strategies over time. This 18th edition builds…

This research aimed to (1) develop interventions for enhancing executive functions (EFs) and (2) examine the effects of participatory EF enhancement in ethnic preschool children. The researchers sampled 197 preschool teachers and parents from 7 Border Patrol Police Schools in northern Thailand using simple random sampling. The research instruments…

Background/purpose: Rural schools present unique challenges for School Management Teams, as most learners only attend school occasionally due to cultural obligations and household chores, resulting in low attendance rates. The study aimed to explore the challenges that school management teams faced while managing rural schools, which negatively…

The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has created a fast-moving, real-time social experiment at scale. AI uses for school are numerous, with some students using AI for their homework and some teachers using AI to create lesson plans, receive feedback on their instruction, or complete such administrative tasks as…

This Handbook focuses on the implications and strategies for educating students with disabilities. Covering diverse populations from an academic, behavioral, and international standpoint, it is a comprehensive resource spanning elementary to high school. In the first section, the Handbook delves into students with learning disabilities, autism,…

Accessible and practical, the sixth edition of "School-Community Relations" provides aspiring educational leaders with the skills to establish strong systems for communicating with their various school constituencies and to improve public relations at all levels. This textbook uses real-life examples to illustrate the ways in which…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore media's discursive strategies that shaped public narratives related to the National School Boards Association's (NSBA) 2021 letter to the Biden administration ("The Letter" hereafter) and the NSBA's response following media coverage. The Letter requested federal support to address the…

The home environment typically offers the first setting for literacy development. However, inherent Down Syndrome (DS) phenotype characteristics, individual attributes, or caregiver influences can impact literacy growth. This study investigates the Home Literacy Environment (HLE) of children and adolescents with DS compared to their typically…

Background: It is documented that children who stutter, as well as children with autism, may experience diminished well-being relative to children without these conditions. In contrast, almost nothing is documented about well-being of children living with both conditions, most likely because such children are relatively rare and thus challenging…

This study explores the gaps in educational aspirations in a sample of public high school students in Ecuador and runs a randomized controlled trial to investigate the impact of information about the returns and costs of education on their aspirations to high school, technical training, and university. The results show that the gaps in university…

Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) inclusive of cultural values and viewpoints is vital for promoting healthy sexual behaviour among adolescents. Although culture forms a huge part of the adolescent's external environment and influences sexual behaviour, it is not always clear how culture has been conceptualised and integrated into CSE. We…

Students with disabilities attain a 4-year college degree at only 12.5% of the national average. By studying the intersection of inclusion, higher education, and disability studies, my capstone explored a subset of this dilemma to focus on wheelchair users' decision-making process about where to attend college and their subsequent time at college.…