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Ahn, June; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Berland, Matthew; Chase, Catherine; Enyedy, Noel; Fusco, Judith; Gardner, Shari; Grover, Shuchi; Halverson, Erica; Jona, Kemi; Lane, H. Chad; Martin, Wendy; Mercier, Emma; Moher, Tom; Ogan, Amy; Pinkard, Nichole; Polman, Joseph; Roschelle, Jeremy; Schank, Patricia; Taylor, Katie Headrick; Wilkerson, Michelle; Worsley, Marcelo – Grantee Submission, 2017
Cyberlearning researchers envision and investigate the future of learning with technology. As of summer 2017, the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFTL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) had made 279 research grant awards. In addition, several hundred other NSF research projects have cyberlearning themes. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Instructional Design, Research Projects
OECD Publishing, 2017
Globally, enrolment in secondary education has expanded dramatically over the past decades. This expansion is also reflected in PISA data, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. Between 2003 and 2015, Indonesia added more than 1.1 million students, Turkey and Brazil more than 400,000 students, and Mexico more than 300,000 students, to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Wise, Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2017
English learners (EL) account for approximately 10 percent of American public school students and a quarter of all public school students in the state of California. This student group, while already a sizable minority, is also the fastest growing group of students across the state and nation. Therefore, ways that public school systems meet, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Social Justice, Instructional Leadership, English Language Learners
Vasquez, Rita M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to understand how two high school principals purposely worked to disrupt the inequities in educational opportunities and outcomes that had previously existed for marginalized students in their schools. Committed to a social justice agenda, the two principals systematically changed the culture, structures, and processes…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Fox, Christine; Cougan, Monica; Little, Rachel – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2017
Providing access to robust connectivity is critical to ensuring today's students are college and career ready. As such, federal, state, and district-level leaders have dedicated a significant amount of time, effort, and resources toward improving our schools' external broadband access, including both Internet access and wide area network (WAN).…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Networks, Educational Planning, Telecommunications
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; Sapienza, Paola – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2017
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from countries with long-term oriented attitudes perform better…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Attainment, Delay of Gratification, Reading Achievement
Posselt, Julie; Venegas, Kristan; Ward, James Dean; Hernandez, Theresa; DePaola, Thomas – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2017
The federal government's role in supporting higher education touches nearly every aspect of the work performed by American colleges and universities. Federal authorities control an immense amount of public resources that are used to strategically exert influence across a complex and differentiated postsecondary system. This report is intended to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Sex Fairness
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Viera, Julian; Kosheleva, Olga M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Studies which investigate "translanguaging," best practices, and literacy in teaching mathematics for English Language Learners (ELLs) is common in the educational literature. Studies on how ELLs self-efficacy are affected by online cognitive tutors are not common, and there is even less research on how ELLs engage with technology in an…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2017
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department continues to face significant challenges in FY 2018 that impact its…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Strategic Planning, Financial Audits, Compliance (Legal)
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Palaigeorgiou, George; Grammatikopoulou, Athina – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to identify the learning benefits and the challenges of Web 2.0 educational activities when applied in typical learning settings and as perceived by pioneer educators with extensive Web 2.0 experience. Design/Methodology/Approach: The testimonies of 26 Greek primary and secondary education teachers were collected. All…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Grooms, Ain A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
A dual transfer program was created in 1983 in the St. Louis metropolitan area following a 1972 lawsuit brought upon the city, charging it with withholding an equal educational opportunity for Black students. Through this program, Black students from St. Louis City are provided with free transportation to one of 15 suburban school districts, and…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Transportation
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Lopes Cardozo, Mieke T. A.; Shah, Ritesh – Comparative Education, 2016
A critical and more nuanced understanding of the multifaceted relationship between projects of peacebuilding and educational provision is starting to develop. Drawing on an epistemological and ontological anchor of critical realism, and a methodology informed by the application of cultural political economy analysis and the strategic relational…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Peace, Politics of Education, Epistemology
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Nkuyubwatsi, Bernard – Journal of Learning for Development, 2016
Policies play a critical role in the implementation of open, distance education and opening up higher education. To encourage participation of different stakeholders in related practices, policies may need to embody values and benefits for those stakeholders. It is in this perspective that this study was conducted to investigate the policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Access to Education
Neri, Rebecca; Lozano, Maritza; Chang, Sandy; Herman, Joan – Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2016
New college and career ready standards (CCRS) have established more rigorous expectations of learning for all learners, including English learner (EL) students, than what was expected in previous standards. A common feature in these new content-area standards, such as the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics and the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Educational Principles
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Abruquah, Emmanuel; Dosa, Ildiko; Duda, Grazyna – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This article discusses some practical ideas associated with a pilot intercultural telecollaboration project. The aim of the project was to connect students from five countries: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Spain, and to make them interact using social media, such as Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc. There were success stories…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Intercultural Programs, Student Exchange Programs
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