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Direct linkFrolich, Nicoline; Waagene, Erica; Aamodt, Per Olaf – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
Performance indicators and performance-based funding are becoming integral components of higher education (HE) policy around the globe. We explore some of the implications of this type of policy on Norwegian HE. We believe the case will be of significant interest to policy-makers, stakeholders and academics alike, not least because our empirical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Educational Demand, Foreign Countries
Figlio, David; Hart, Cassandra M. D. – Education Next, 2011
Programs that enable students to attend private schools, including both vouchers and scholarships funded with tax credits, have become increasingly common in recent years. This study examines the impact of the nation's largest private school scholarship program on the performance of students who remain in the public schools. The Florida Tax Credit…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tax Credits, Competition, Program Effectiveness
Lupton, Ruth – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2011
This article reviews Bernard Barker's claims that "the pendulum is swinging", in relation to school markets and competition. Barker's arguments are complex in this regard. He rejects markets and competition as a means of improving outcomes and equity, but supports some of the system features that are often associated with marketisation,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Social Justice, Competition
Eisenchlas, Susana A.; Tsurutani, Chiharu – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Sociolinguistic research on attitudes towards language has revealed that native speakers of English are drawn towards those who share their native accent and respond cautiously, perhaps negatively, towards those speaking in "accented" English (Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner & Fillenbaum, 1960; Rubin, 1992). These perceptions greatly…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Personality
Vopat, Mark C. – Theory and Research in Education, 2011
Beginning in the 1970s, many school US school districts reallocated their already scarce resources from local schools to specially created magnet schools. Many of these magnet schools have some sort of entrance exam, portfolio, or audition requirement that students must pass in order to gain admission. These selective magnet schools are predicated…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Magnet Schools, Access to Education, Competition
Download full textZainuddin, Zaharatul Akmar Ahmad; Selamat, Suzanah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Every year polytechnics in Malaysia produce thousands of graduates in vocational areas, however, these graduates have to strive in a competitive job market against graduates from other tertiary institutions. This study aims to investigate polytechnic students efficacy on their communication skills. These skills are crucial in determining their…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Competition
Taft, Mary Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers working with increasingly diverse student populations are expected, for the first time in American history, to bring all students to high levels of proficiency. American graduates must compete with graduates from other nations, given the realities of the 21st century global economy. American teachers must possess 21st century skills in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Discourse Analysis, State Policy
Buddin, Richard – Cato Institute, 2012
Charter schools are publicly funded schools that have considerable independence from public school districts in their curriculum development and staffing decisions, and their enrollments have increased substantially over the past two decades. Charter schools are changing public and private school enrollment patterns across the United States. This…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Schools, Catholic Schools, Private Education
Epstein, Diana – Center for American Progress, 2012
Education is the key to American competitiveness and a strong economy, and continued federal investment in education is needed in order to support improvements in student achievement and put American economy on the path to sustained growth. The United States must continue to invest in education in order to create a system that is more equitable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Finance, Middle Class, Investment
Paprota, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Entry into a career in law enforcement is most often dependent upon the aspiring candidate's relative success on a competitive, written, multiple-choice examination. In the state of New Jersey, as in many states, civil service laws preclude consideration of formal educational attainment when establishing the ordinal, eligibles lists for law…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Law Enforcement, Career Choice, Competition
Lewis, Scott; O'Brien, George E. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
There has been an increased use of authentic practices in both science and environmental education in recent years. Such practices can utilize social constructivist frameworks to consider the learning that may be taking place as students become engaged in tool use. The current study focuses on a group of elementary school students studying the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Elementary School Students, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Science
Yu, Chong Ho – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
Many American authors expressed their concern that US competitiveness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is losing ground. Using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 data, this study investigated how academic self-concept and instrumental motivation influence science test performance among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Tests, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Nora, Julie – Voices in Urban Education, 2013
Improving the education of a growing sector of the school population--English language learners (ELLs)--is a pressing unmet need in the nation's current public education system (Gándara 1994; Genesee et al. 2006; Hood 2003). Another urgent educational need is to prepare students to live and work in an increasingly globally connected world.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Global Approach, Competition, Native Speakers
Bae, So Hee – Language and Education, 2013
"Jogi yuhak" (early study abroad) has become a prominent educational and linguistic investment strategy for middle-class Korean families to raise their children as global elites, allowing them to attain multilingual competence through transnational educational migration. Singapore, a newly emerging center of "jogi yuhak",…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Study Abroad
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
