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Walker, Susan K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Employees who choose to leave employment cause significant challenges for organizations. Compounded challenges exist when employee retention strategies are not effective, affecting job satisfaction and personnel replacement costs as the organization continues to lose qualified and valuable staff. This single case study, built on a psychological…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, School Holding Power
Siekmann, Gitta – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. The Organisation for works with countries to develop skills strategies tailored to specific needs and contexts. The Organisation prepared a global…
Descriptors: International Studies, Position Papers, Case Studies, Job Skills
Bobo, Nichole; Garrett, Jennifer; Teskey, Carmen; Duncan, Kay; Strasser, Kathy; Burrows-Mezu, Alicia L. – National Association of School Nurses (NASN), 2015
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that immunizations are essential to primary prevention of disease from infancy through adulthood. Promotion of immunizations by the registered professional school nurse (hereinafter referred to as school nurse) is central to the public health focus of school nursing practice…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Staff Role, Immunization Programs, Disease Control
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Social Education, 2014
This position statement is aimed at informing the general public, the K-12 community, and all educators, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school, about the importance of addressing study about religions in the social studies curriculum in ways that are constitutionally and academically sound. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Social Studies, Literacy, Stereotypes
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Shah, Mahsood; Richardson, John T. E. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Universities in many countries are developing strategies to enhance the student experience. This focus has never been so important since the development of rankings and the use of student experience measures in institutional performance assessment. Australian government policies to link student experience measures to performance funding were a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Strategic Planning, College Planning
Iden, Ronald – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The multigenerational workforce presents a critical challenge for business managers, and each generation has different expectations. A human resource management study of organizations with more than 500 employees reported 58% of the managers experiencing conflict between younger and older workers. The purpose of this single case study was to…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture, Generational Differences, Manufacturing Industry
Lumina Foundation, 2018
This brief tells the story of Lumina Foundation's and states' efforts to promote an equity agenda for higher education, featuring the 2015 Equity Policy Academy-- which focused on improving educational equity for students from historically underserved groups--as a turning point. Based primarily on interviews with Lumina staff and key state leaders…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Disproportionate Representation
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Macheridis, Nikos – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
This article focuses on coordination between governance actors in higher education. The object of the study is a department at a public university, seen as a multi-project environment. The purpose of this article is to illustrate and analyze project governance as a tool that allows departmental management to coordinate with the authorities, the…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Program Implementation, Coordination
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Arshad-Ayaz, Adeela; Andreotti, Vanessa; Sutherland, Ali – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2017
In the recent "National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship" (2015), a selection of Canadian youth identified their vision for global citizenship education (GCE). The document articulates the Canadian youths' vision for global citizenship and outlines changes that need to be implemented in order for that vision to be achieved.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Position Papers, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Dervin, Fred – Educational Practice and Theory, 2015
In this article I use the current (r)evolution of interculturality to examine the logics, discourses and situated practices of internationalization in Finnish Higher Education. Based on a case study in Finland, different policies are analysed to see if and how the construction of internationalization takes place in these documents and what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Case Studies
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Gysling, Jacqueline – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
This article examines the historical development of the state's actions in educational assessment in Chile from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the analysis of governmental decrees and regulations related to assessment, and their variability over time. The research identifies six distinctive periods, each of which expresses a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Legislation
Petrilli, Michael J.; Griffith, David; Wright, Brandon L.; Kim, Audrey – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
In this report, the authors examine the extent to which states' current (or planned) accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high-achieving students, and how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to better serve all students. In their view, states can and should take…
Descriptors: Accountability, High Achievement, Student Needs, Needs Assessment
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McCarthy-Brown, Nyama – Journal of Dance Education, 2014
Most dance departments in the United States require rigorous study of traditional Western dance forms. This is common; many developed countries cultivate the art forms that reflect the aesthetics and philosophies of the majority culture in that nation. However, demographics in the United States have changed greatly over the past 50 years, with…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Higher Education, Dance, Aesthetics
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Adelman, Clifford – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2014
This essay is an empirical account of English language use, across three continents, in 40 Tuning and analogous discipline-based statements of desired demonstrated competences and learning outcomes in higher education. It is primarily concerned with lexical and semantic matters, takes the perspective of the student as the primary reader and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Qualifications, Alignment (Education), Behavioral Objectives
Tuck, Christine M.; Haynie, Kathey; Davis, Catherine – National Association of School Nurses (NASN), 2014
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that the registered professional school nurse (hereinafter referred to as school nurse) provides leadership in all phases of emergency preparedness and response. School nurses are a vital part of the school team responsible for developing emergency response procedures for the…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Emergency Programs, Allied Health Personnel, Staff Role
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