Teacher turnover imposes a significant negative impact on the education system as a whole, much to the detriment of student achievement. The Learning Policy Institute (2021) suggests this problem was exacerbated in all school settings by the global COVID-19 pandemic in which growing disparities between children and uncertainty about the future of…

The problem this research study investigated was the readiness of the selected district's administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers in implementing a standards-based grading (SBG) initiative. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine the district's elementary administration, instructional coaches, and teachers' perceptions…

Cybersecurity systems are crucial for safeguarding information assets across various sectors, including government, military, and commercial domains. In Saudi Arabia, cybersecurity has gained significant importance within the national security strategy, resulting in substantial investments in technologies to protect information assets, combat…

Thomas Munro, a Scottish highlander, came to the Madras Presidency in South India as a soldier in the army of the East India Company in 1780. He rose to the position of its governor 40 years later in 1820 and died in India in 1827. His rise was not through military campaigns but peaceful administrative policies. During his stay in India, he…

Business simulation games (BSG) have become a very popular pedagogical tool in university courses and programmes all around the world. Their immense popularity has been a subject of research and academic discourse, especially the past couple of decades when many experts have called for more student-centric and reality based pedagogical approaches.…

The purpose of this action research study was to explore how peer-led virtual environments could help doctoral students of Northern New England University's accelerated online doctoral program in Educational Leadership to increase writing productivity and overcome writing blocks. A goal of this research project was to create and implement a…

This quantitative-correlational study aimed to assess to which extent the higher education institutions in West Bank- Palestine practice e-leadership during crises. The researcher mainly evaluated the relationship between leader personality and skills, leader social awareness, resources availability and e-leadership. For data collection, the…

This paper addresses the issues of managerialism and collegiality in universities in times of change. It is based on a case study of a New Zealand university from 1985 to 2010 using interviews with key participants and documentary evidence from the public and private domains. The study concludes that views of university staff about the concepts of…

The nation's leading academic hospitals aspire to being the leader in medical research, but as the role of medical research grows in size and complexity, many departments are left without proper research support or oversight. This research explored the need for a research administrative support program to resolve many of the issues facing faculty…

Business ethics are moral values and principles that guide the conduct of business toward promotion of the common good. This simple explanation of business ethics belies a deeper and broader understanding of how business ethics evolves. Law and ethics, which some see as distinct fields, are deeply connected and mutually reinforcing. Laws are…

The current movement toward increasing privatization in general and market education in particular has been extensively examined in terms of its neoliberal roots and incompatibility with the aims of public, democratic education. This analysis presents a different critique, one that draws upon current economic theory and research to challenge the…

College officials across the United States struggle with how to prevent and effectively respond to incidents of academic dishonesty. In this chapter, we propose alternative practices that support student development and learning.

This study examined the teacher evaluation process that exists within virtual schools. Teachers who serve learners in virtual settings utilize a myriad of technology to provide students with learning environments. There is limited research regarding the teacher evaluation process that exists within virtual schools. Current research does not show…

This series of essays written for trustees and administrative leaders of universities and colleges draws on the authors' extensive consulting experience, research into the dynamics of boards, and service as trustees, to focus on practical insights that will help readers improve governance. The authors have contributed a series of essays on…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the phenomenon of school counselors as leaders, who work in school districts in the state of Arizona. The American School Counselor National Model and the Distributed Leadership Model served as the conceptual framework for this study. The three research questions of…