The state of California has the largest community college system in the United States with 1.8 million students from diverse backgrounds and 64% percent of students who are economically disadvantaged (California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, 2022; Felix & Castro, 2018). California community colleges also experience inequitable…

Socioeconomic status (SES), home language, and parent education level play a significant role in student academic achievement and the involvement of parents, including Latino parents, in schools. The purpose of this study was to understand Latino parent involvement at one southern California elementary school. The Latino critical race theory…

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted teaching and learning, causing schools to close and to move students to remote learning. Many principals sidestepped the guiding principle for schools, the mission statement, and were instead on a mission to salvage teaching and learning. Environmental entities became crucial to school survival. The open system…

Total enrollment at Wisconsin's public and charter schools declined by 25,000 students from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and has continued to fall in the years since then. While declining birth rates and apparent movement of some students to private or home schools likely account for at least two thirds of the decline, somewhere between 0.5% and 1.2% of…

This research aimed to (1) study the factors affecting the development of mathematics achievement of second-grade students in Qinhuang Town Primary School, (2) develop an instructional model based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory, (3) compare the mathematics achievement of second-grade students before and after using an instructional…

The purposes of this research were to study the level of participation in the environmental conservation of undergraduate students and to study and compare the factors affecting participation in the environmental conservation of students of different genders and academic years. The sample used in the research were 231 undergraduate students of 1-4…

Idioms are unique linguistic expressions that contain cultural elements of a nation, and a rich worldview of different ethnic groups belonging to different cultures this study aimed to investigate superlative degrees in Vietnamese perceptions of humans through idioms with comparisons. A descriptive research study method with a comparative approach…

To address the challenges of sustainability in rural areas of Mexico, it must be considered that globalization opened the way to a new conception of rural development and consequently to a change of strategies aimed at achieving higher levels of productivity, often unrelated to social welfare. This widened poverty in the countryside and forced the…

Online offerings provide increased student access and aid students in achieving their educational goals, while also promising higher education institutions access to new revenue streams. As demand for online offerings increase and institutions move to include online offerings in their long-term strategies, researchers have not documented how…

One of the most popular topics is education, and this study will also focus on this area. In this research, we will examine examples of social innovation in education and the impact of these practices, with a particular focus on social sustainability. Our aim is to present social innovation programmes and good practices in the national and…

This paper builds its arguments on the (re)interpretation of 'human' and its entanglements with nonhumans in the digital age. Since the concept of humanness has prominently transformed into something innovative because of immense improvements in science and technology, and thereby society, terms such as human, nonhuman, posthuman, and transhuman…

In a Kimberley place-based cultural story, Dangaba is a woman whose Country holds poison gas. Her story shows the importance of cultural ways of understanding and caring for Country, especially hazardous places. The authors contrast this with a corporate story of fossil fuel, illustrating the divergent discourses and approaches to place.…

Homeschooling has become an educational trend in Indonesia since the early 2000s, not long after Suharto stepped down from power. The homeschool parents grew up within the highly centralized, hegemonic education system of his New Order regime. Their decision to homeschool is an embodiment of the courage to question and resist the hegemony,…

'Research is a major aspect and fundamental component of many social struggles and movements for change' [Choudry, A. 2013a. "Activist Research Practice: Exploring Research and Knowledge Production for Social Action." Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 9 (1): 128 151. doi:10.18740/S4G01K, 128]. For Palestinians, research and knowledge…

Television production plays a significant role in shaping and exposing cultures around the globe. This paper is an attempt to address multiple fundamental concerns and challenges underlying TV production in the Middle East and the perception towards women in the region. The study population consists of a sample of 1010 college students at Al-Najah…