Schools self-identify as caring communities and teach young children to be caring for each other. But schools also teach other contradictory and competing messages, such as individualism and self-reliance, rationalist concepts of justice and meritocracy, and other neoliberal approaches to life and community. Furthermore, while endorsements of care…

Even though quality management initiatives are crucial for enhancing the performance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), there is a lack of research on how the academic accreditation process influences it. This study aims to assess the impact of quality management initiatives on HEI performance, in addition to exploring the mediating role of…

This practical book shares key lessons learned from highly effective, award-winning National Blue Ribbon Schools. "Teacher Leadership Practice in High-Performing Schools" explores the important role teachers have in leading schools, the balance administrators must strike between providing teachers with support and trusting them as…

Many people around the globe are aiming to learn the Arabic language, even though it is difficult to learn. Therefore, many online institutions are offering the service of teaching Arabic as a second language to non-native speakers, but these institutions always encounter different issues in enhancing their performance. Thus, this study aimed to…

This paper develops a model of education production and uses it to study optimal school system and curriculum design. Curriculum design is modeled as a time-allocation problem. A school teaches students many skills and allocates time to different skills based on student characteristics. Our framework provides a novel interpretation of studies that…

This study aims to explore the impact of empowerment on school effectiveness and examine more broadly the findings of early research. This mixed study used an exploratory sequential design. The initial stage of research uses qualitative methods followed by the quantitative stage. In the qualitative stage, research data were collected through…

Chronic absenteeism rates have become an increasing problem after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (U.S Department of Education, 2022). There is a need to identify interventions to effectively target the heightened rates of student absences. This study examined the effectiveness of the Dine and Doodle intervention in increasing attendance in a…

Evaluation is an important tool for facilitating and promoting the growth of school members and improving the quality of schooling. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) claimed that effective school evaluation involves continuously using the results of such evaluations in school operations (2019). Based on the…

This study explores the influence of schools' general characteristics, and their information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities on students' computational thinking. The computational thinking achievements of 31,823 students who participated in a large-scale comparative study in 1412 schools and across nine countries/regions were…

This study examined a differentiated, bottom-up approach to school improvement planning through exploration of the qualities that make up a highly effective school department team as it related to their ability to create and meet a student-centered, data driven high achievement goal. While there are a multitude of factors that affect the ability…

This study utilizes the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to evaluate the operating performance of technology universities in Taiwan. The bootstrap method is employed to analyze MPI sensitivity to verify the index's stability. Our results suggest that the universities demonstrate an adequate level of performance with little improvement required.…

While the topic of college and university mergers has become more relevant in the United States in recent years, there is still very little research and systematic tracking of college merger data (Kurzweil et al., 2021). However, the existing research has shown that many institutions that went through mergers were able to better serve their…

Since the 1980s, neoliberal reforms in Higher Education (HE) have been widely adopted by governments around the globe because HE was seen as central to knowledge creation, national prosperity and competitiveness. Although the rate of adoption of these reforms varied due to differences in historical and political contexts, they have had a…

As student outcomes affect the entire society, the effectiveness of schools has been a subject of significant debate for more than half a century. Another issue of vital importance for societies is peace. Although peace is given the importance that it deserves in many disciplines, it has remained a neglected concept for organizations. This study…

Research on school improvement has accumulated an extensive list of factors that facilitate turnarounds at underperforming schools. Given that context or resource constraints may limit the possibilities of putting all of these factors in place, an important question is what is necessary and sufficient to turn a school around. We use qualitative…