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Direct linkBerry, David – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2010
Education is considered to be one of the most important activities children, adolescents, and adults will ever engage in during one's lifetime. Not only does education, particularly higher education, prepare an individual for a professional career, it is also designed for personal, civic, and cultural development. Research has demonstrated the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Baby Boomers, Accountability, Athletics
Samier, Eugenie; Lumby, Jacky – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
This article explores the insights literature can bring to administrative and bureaucratic critique, focusing on the work of Nikolai Gogol. Gogol's satire of bureaucracy presages many subsequent social science analyses. These encompass the fundamental ruptures in society caused by a surfeit of bureaucracy in "The Nose" and, on a more psychological…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Industrial Psychology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Administration
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
Perhaps at no other time in the history of American education has there been more publicly available information about what teachers think about their profession, their students, and the conditions under which they work. As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys, Teaching Conditions, Federal Legislation
de Boer, Harry; Huisman, Jeroen; Meister-Scheytt, Claudia – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
One element of the recent reforms of higher education sectors across Europe is the formation of new governance structures in universities. Supervisory boards are part of these reform processes. However, despite the importance of these boards, surprisingly little is known about their actual work. This article discusses the situation of boards in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Governance, Foreign Countries
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
Most experts in the testing community have presumed that the $350 million promised by the U.S. Department of Education to support common assessments would promote those that made greater use of open-ended items capable of measuring higher-order critical-thinking skills. But as measurement experts consider the multitude of possibilities for an…
Descriptors: Test Items, Federal Legislation, Scoring, Accountability
Chan, Jacqueline Kin-Sang – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2010
A new approach to curriculum and implementation in a new era normally requires schools and teachers to take more responsibility for student learning. This might present a challenge at any time, particularly when teachers have been used to more directives and less professional approaches to curriculum implementation. In order to meet such a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Accountability
Anderson, Stephen; Leithwood, Kenneth; Strauss, Tiiu – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2010
This study examined data use and conditions influencing data use by typical principals and teachers, as well as the relationship between data use and student performance. The analysis drew upon a multi-method investigation of leadership at the school, district, and state levels. The findings emphasize the leadership of principals in establishing…
Descriptors: Data, Evidence, Decision Making, Information Utilization
Long, Brad – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2010
Over the last 35 years Australian higher education policy, like that of most countries, has undergone radical changes. This article reviews these changes in terms of four key periods, beginning with the abolition of student fees, through to the recent unprecedented levels of government control and intervention. Policies are compared with each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Intervention, Foreign Countries
Bagnall, Richard G. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
Citizenship and belonging was identified as one of the nine progressive themes of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the United Kingdom. It was used to inform the inquiry's recommendations on the desired form of that future. This paper articulates a critique of the report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Role of Education
Schraw, Gregory – Educational Psychologist, 2010
The goal of this special issue of "Educational Psychologist" is to consider the challenges of schooling in the age of accountability. Four experts were invited to review and evaluate the relationship between school accountability and school improvement, professional development, assessment, and student motivation. Each article provides…
Descriptors: Accountability, Professional Development, Educational Assessment, Student Motivation
Judson, Eugene – Science Education, 2013
In the United States, student achievement results from mathematics and reading are always included in high-stakes accountability calculations. Because of this, it has been argued that other subjects have been minimized due to assessment and accountability policies. In this study, the accountability practices of states were differentiated into…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, National Competency Tests, Science Achievement
Download full textRussell, Jennifer Lin; Bray, Laura E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Federal special education and accountability policies requires that educators individualize instruction for students with disabilities, while simultaneously ensuring that the vast majority of these students meet age-based grade-level standards and assessment targets. In this paper, we examine this dynamic interplay between policies through…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Special Education, Accountability, Individualized Education Programs
Carrier, Sarah J.; Tugurian, Linda P.; Thomson, Margareta M. – Research in Science Education, 2013
In this article, we present the results from a mixed-methods research study aimed to document indoor and outdoor fifth grade science experiences in one school in the USA in the context of accountability and standardized testing. We used quantitative measures to explore students' science knowledge, environmental attitudes, and outdoor comfort…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mixed Methods Research, Outdoor Education, Grade 5
Principal Leadership, 2013
Christel House, a public school charter approved through the office of the mayor of Indianapolis, was founded in 2002 and continues to be supported by the children's charity Christel House International. To support the high expectations asked of students, Christel House recognizes the importance of motivating students and providing a program that…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Expectation, Cooperative Learning, Faculty Development
Sayed, Yusuf; Sprague, Terra; Turner, David; Smith, Alan; Paulson, Julia; Shields, Robin; Shrestha, Purna Kumar; Unterhalter, Elaine; Vaughan, Rosie Peppin; Smail, Amy; Tungaraza, Frida; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamah; Barrett, Angeline M.; Bunwaree, Vasant K.; Alhawsawi, Sajjad; Hanna, Helen; Soudien, Crain; Motivans, Albert – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (as chaired by the United Nations Development Programme) is leading the planning of efforts…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education
