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Kaitlyn O'Hagan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
There is growing evidence that investment in school facilities, and new school construction in particular, can improve K-12 student outcomes, particularly for low-income students. Funding for school infrastructure, however, is inequitably distributed. Moreover, given a lack of national data on school facilities, researchers have focused on…
Descriptors: School Construction, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Gains
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Clarke, Simon – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
The study of disadvantages in education at all levels in Ireland is a well-researched field (Doyle and Keane 2019; Fleming and Harford 2021; Kellaghan 1995; Skerritt 2017; Tormey 2010). A variety of research approaches have been used by those involved in the endeavour to provide a range of valuable associated insights. We offer this paper at a…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Conflict
Brandy S. González – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The availability of early childhood education to students in poverty continues to grow across the United States. Pre-kindergarten programs provide intervention for four-year-old students to close early learning gaps and prepare students for kindergarten. Little research exists to show if pre-kindergarten programs in Texas achieve this goal. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Kindergarten
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Goriot, Claire; van Hout, Roeland – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
We investigated whether primary-school teachers' beliefs towards early-English education are related to the type of English education they are involved in (early- or later-English schools), their English language skills and whether they teach English. Ninety-nine Dutch teachers filled in a questionnaire with 25 statements about early-English…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Foreign Countries
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Stephen Gorard; Nadia Siddiqui; Beng Huat See – Cogent Education, 2023
Governments and education systems worldwide have tried using additional cash transfers to encourage school enrolment and attendance, and to reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers. There are now many strands of evidence on the success of such schemes. This paper presents the results of international structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evidence, Success
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Maneka Deanna Brooks – AERA Open, 2023
A portion of EL-identified youth want to exit the EL instructional services to which they are legally entitled. Moreover, institutionalized adultism within EL policy does not provide youths a role in decision-making about these services. As a result, little is known about how individuals who attempt unsanctioned exits conceptualize EL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Adults, Student Experience, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rajan, Vijitha – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2021
This article emphasises the discord between 'mobile childhoods' and 'immobile schools' as the fundamental problematic of educational inclusion of migrant children in India. Formal schooling system predicated upon static ideals of age, grade, learning, curriculum and language, fails to accommodate the lived realities of migrant children. By drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Educationally Disadvantaged, Traditional Schools
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Gerry Jeffers; Carmel Lillis – Educational Studies, 2024
Aspirations to combat educational inequality and disadvantage in Ireland feature strongly in policy documents of recent decades. Teachers and their concerns are not always to the forefront in such publications or, indeed, in associated research. For this study, 20 teachers and school principals who work in schools located in communities with…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged
Fatima K. Babih – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the dispositions of Sierra Leone's higher education stakeholders toward using a community college system as an alternative model for expanding postsecondary accessibility in Sierra Leone. The study was prompted by a high number of students failing to gain admissions into universities in Sierra Leone every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Stakeholders, Achievement Gap
Zierer, Klaus – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
The COVID pandemic has caused massive disruption in the education system. The consequences for the education of the next generation are now clearly visible: a decline in learning performance, problems in psycho-social development, and a deterioration in physical condition. Although all children and young people are affected, those from…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Social Development
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Don Zoellner – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Describing various demographic characteristics of disadvantaged students, the programs they study and their employment outcomes is a significant area of research interest in the vocational education and training (VET) sector. This article offers a preliminary exploration of how groups are problematised and the consequent influence on VET research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Vocational Education, Publications
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Dhiraj Kumar Nite; Anjali Kumari; Shuchi Agrawal; Gaurav Setty – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article advances an explanation for the dynamics of agencies and institutions responsible for the formation of skills in nineteenth-century western India. It shows that multiple agencies - artisanal apprenticeship, indigenous schools, new "bazar" schools, modern vernacular and English schools, and institutes for technical,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Skilled Workers, Skill Development
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Willy Kauai; Brandi Jean Nalani Balutski – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2024
Prior to the United States' (U.S.) illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom government in 1893 and illegal annexation in 1898, literacy rates and educational attainment in the Hawaiian Kingdom were amongst the highest in the world. In contrast to the educational history of the 19th century, the usurpation of the Hawaiian educational system…
Descriptors: Educational History, Time Perspective, Literacy, Educational Attainment
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Susana Sánchez Castro; María Ángeles Pascual Sevillano; Javier Fombona Cadavieco – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
The planned systematized design of the use of serious games in the classroom is presented as a strategy to optimize learning. In this framework, Learning Analytics represents stealth assessment and follow-up method, and a way to personalize such games by simplifying their application for teachers. The aim of this research was to analyze the impact…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Linguistic Competence, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods
Uloma Agada-Achinanya – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Grade placement of newcomer immigrants into U.S. High schools continues to challenge many educators. This becomes even more significant when newcomer immigrants come from countries where education systems are different; or in some cases, their educational development is completely disrupted. Also, curriculum analyses have suggested math concepts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Immigrants, Mathematics Education, High School Teachers
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