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Zigler, Richard; Sellah, Lusweti; Vincent, Macmbinji; Vivian, Jumba; Brown, Kaggi; Bernadette, Namirembe – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2017
Education for all children is a fundamental right enshrined in national and international regulatory frameworks. Yet, the right to education does not necessarily imply inclusion. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF, 2014), a large segment of children are not in school and have long remained invisible, hidden, and forgotten:…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Hall, Marva M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Scholarly community engagement in higher education historically focused on the 4-year university, as a result there is limited research on how community colleges engage with their communities. In 2006, The Carnegie Foundation established a new Elective Community Engagement classification for higher education institutions. Research on Carnegie…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Soto, Sebastián; Cordero, Juan Luis – Online Submission, 2017
Education has been regarded as one important aspect to reach human capital development. Several aspects of education have been researched, and an important part of them have focused on the effectiveness that teachers training programmes have over improving students' learning outcomes and improving teachers' pedagogical and methodological skills.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Teaching Methods
Nelson-Dusek, Stephanie; Gehrig, Sarah; Pittman, Brian – Wilder Research, 2017
Over the past four years, through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the 360 Manufacturing and Applied Engineering ATE Regional Center of Excellence (360) has been working collaboratively to recruit, educate, and train workers for careers in manufacturing. 360 works with partner institutions in the Minnesota State colleges and…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Labor Force Development, Grants, National Organizations
Russell Poulin; Terri Taylor Straut – WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET), 2017
The issue of the price and cost of distance education courses has been discussed in the past in numerous publications including the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education. There is a long-held belief among legislators, governors, and other leaders that distance courses should cost less to produce and deliver. To evaluate the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Baye, Ariane; Monseur, Christian – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
This study examines gender differences in the variability of student performance in reading, mathematics and science. Twelve databases from IEA and PISA were used to analyze gender differences within an international perspective from 1995 to 2015. Effect sizes and variance ratios were computed. The main results are as follows. (1) Gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Scores, Databases, Academic Achievement
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Peters, Michael A.; Jandric, Petar; Irwin, Ruth; Locke, Kirsten; Devine, Nesta; Heraud, Richard; Gibbons, Andrew; Besley, Tina; White, Jayne; Forster, Daniella; Jackson, Liz; Grierson, Elizabeth; Mika, Carl; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Brighouse, Susanne; Arndt, Sonja; Lazaroiu, George; Mihaila, Ramona; Legg, Catherine; Benade, Leon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication.…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Organizations (Groups), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing
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Reddy, Sarasvathie; McKenna, Sioux – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Participants in a study on learning the clinical aspects of medicine in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum repeatedly referred to themselves as "Guinea pigs" at the mercy of a curriculum experiment. This article interrogates and problematises the "Guinea pig" identity ascribed to and assumed by the first cohort of…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Clinical Experience, Cohort Analysis, Labeling (of Persons)
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Vakil, Sepehr; McKinney de Royston, Maxine; Suad Nasir, Na'ilah; Kirshner, Ben – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
Participatory design-based research continues to expand and challenge the "researcher" and "researched" paradigm by incorporating teachers, administrators, community members, and youth throughout the research process. Yet, greater clarity is needed about the racial and political dimensions of these collaborative research…
Descriptors: Race, Power Structure, Participatory Research, Trust (Psychology)
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between interfaith engagement and self-authored worldview commitment among 13,776 students enrolled at one of 52 institutions. Results indicated an association between formal and informal interfaith engagement and that this relationship was conditioned upon self-identified worldview.…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Religion, Individual Development, Religious Factors
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Basar, Gulsun; Altinay, Zehra; Dagli, Gokmen; Altinay, Fahriye – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
This study involves the assessment of the quality management models in Higher Education by explaining the importance of quality in higher education and by examining the higher education quality assurance system practices in other countries. The qualitative study was carried out with the members of the Higher Education Planning, Evaluation,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Models
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Torres, A. Chris – Journal of School Choice, 2016
Much scholarly work describes a culture of low expectations in low-income, urban schools, the challenges these teachers face managing student behavior, and why these problems so strongly influence teacher turnover. By contrast, some urban charter schools, particularly those associated with high achieving Charter Management Organizations (CMOs),…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Student Behavior, Organizations (Groups)
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Hodgson, Ann; Spours, Ken – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This article examines the challenges and possibilities for UK policy learning in relation to upper secondary education (USE) across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (NI) within current national and global policy contexts. Drawing on a range of international literature, the article explores the concepts of "restrictive" and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, International Education
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Benoliel, Pascale; Somech, Anit – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: There has been an increasing trend toward the creation of senior management teams (SMTs) which are characterized by a high degree of functional heterogeneity. Although such teams may create better linkages to information, along with the benefits of functional heterogeneity comes the potential for conflicts that stem from the value…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrator Effectiveness
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Schirmer, Eleni B.; Apple, Michael W. – Educational Forum, 2016
This article examines national conservative political advocacy groups' growing interest in local politics, and analyzes how they form alliances and gain political power. Following efforts to restrict collective bargaining for Wisconsin public employees, Kenosha school board members' attempts to legally protect teachers' rights provoked concern…
Descriptors: Local Issues, Politics of Education, National Organizations, Advocacy
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