This study approaches teacher attrition as a dynamic process that develops over time and in which teachers play an active role and enact their agencies in the light of their identity tensions and craft conscience. In this sense, this narrative inquiry explored how two long-serving teachers make sense of their experiences to quit teaching after…

The purpose of this study was to investigate students' perceptions of their learning experience through engagement in an active learning strategy termed "deliberative activity," designed to foster the development of moral reasoning. This strategy was implemented in an elective ethics course within a higher education setting. To evaluate…

This article discusses the supervision experiences of two social work academics who placed and supervised students for fieldwork in the same organization during the pandemic. The authors are linked with specific thematic centers within the School of Social Work in a higher educational setting in India. This paper highlights the importance of…

Instructional materials, such as printed textbooks and digital resources, are a cornerstone of education in kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) education and represent a powerful lever for improving classroom instruction. Historically, the selection of instructional materials in the United States has been predominantly led by local school…

This study explored the intersection of participation rights, politics, and culture in youth councils operating in a polarized socio-political climate. It drew on the case of youth councils integrating Jewish and Palestinian-Arab youth in Israel. Based on interviews with youth council members, adult leaders, and Ministry of Education officials,…

This article introduces current initiatives in moral education and discusses the future direction of its practice. Moral education has recently been designated in the Japanese curriculum as a 'special subject,' prompted by increasing school crises such as bullying. However, practices in moral education instruction lack an evidence-based approach.…

Real-time and traditional labor market information (LMI) should inform all facets of the state Career Technical Education (CTE) policymaking process. Subsequently, national LMI was the foundation of the process to update the modernized National Career Clusters® Framework. Intentionality when incorporating elements of LMI into supported CTE…

This paper explores the challenge of achieving consistent effectiveness in integrating Mathematics Education Technology (MET) in K-12 classrooms, focusing on factors such as technology type, timing, and instructional strategies. It highlights the difficulties novice teachers face in optimizing MET compared to experienced educators, emphasizing the…

Physical activity and healthy eating are instrumental to a child's overall healthy development, resulting in a number of positive outcomes, like better academic performance and lower risk of depression. Yet, most young people are not meeting the recommended daily amount of physical activity, are not eating enough vegetables or fruits, and are…

In this paper, we show how positionality shapes caregivers' decisions about children's schooling, by expanding on research on Black families' educational decision-making (Cooper, 2025; Posey-Maddox et al., 2021) to examine the positions from which families of disabled and multiply-marginalized children make educational choices. The families of…

Modern society is structured as a social hierarchy, with individuals of higher status enjoying various privileges. Many theorists have attempted to quantify this hierarchy, and one contemporary theorist, Pierre Bourdieu, proposed viewing hierarchy through an individual's possession of three intertwined forms of capital: economic capital (material…

This study draws upon anonymous survey responses from 122 full-time, public-school teachers in a Northeastern U.S. state to examine their perceptions of the level of support and decisions made by the state educational agency (SEA) within their state as they navigated teaching during the pandemic. Findings indicate teachers' widespread perception…

Background: Although parents play an instrumental role in youth concussion management, few studies have qualitatively explored youth concussion recovery from the parents' perspective. This study explored parents' experiences with and perceptions of their child's recovery from concussion, particularly with regards to the return-to-school process.…

While the close relationship between the brain system for speech processing and reading development is well-documented in alphabetic languages, whether and how such a link exists in children in a language without systematic grapheme-phoneme correspondence has not been directly investigated. In the present study, we measured Chinese children's…

This phenomenological qualitative study explored how eight speech-language pathology specialists in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) (who self-identified as adult-focused) would approach the AAC assessment process when presented with a case study of an adult with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The general research questions…