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Download full textvan Poortvliet, Matthew; Axford, Nick; Lloyd, Jenny – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This EEF guidance report reviews the best available research to offer schools and teachers four recommendations to support parental engagement in children's learning. Parents play a crucial role in supporting their children's learning, and levels of parental engagement are consistently associated with better academic outcomes. Evidence from our…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
Direct linkSafwat Y. M. Diab; Marja Guillaume; Raija-Leena Punamäki – Elementary School Journal, 2018
Based on the ecological-transactional model by Bronfenbrenner, this study tested the mediating roles of school, family, and child characteristics between academic achievement and both traumatic war experiences and stressful life events. It further examined which of these characteristics could protect academic achievement from negative trauma…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Peer Relationship
Powell, Darren; Gard, Michael – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome--a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating childhood obesity, operating as an officially sanctioned driver of anti-obesity initiatives in primary schools across the globe. We draw on Foucault's notion of governmentality to examine…
Descriptors: Obesity, Nutrition, Child Health, Corporations
Smyth, John; Wrigley, Terry – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
This book confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education--the nexus between poverty and underachievement. The topic has become a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. "Living on the Edge" maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit accounts,…
Descriptors: Poverty, Underachievement, Correlation, Environmental Influences
Moore, Graham F.; Littlecott, Hannah J.; Evans, Rhiannon; Murphy, Simon; Hewitt, Gillian; Fletcher, Adam – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Culture, Educational Environment, Socioeconomic Influences
De Freitas, Xavier – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the US recovering from a recession, a college diploma has become more valuable to avoid unemployment. Despite a college degree's importance, the access to higher education is a challenge for lower income Pell-Eligible Vermont students. For the past three decades, higher education continues to rise in cost faster than family income. Cost is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Low Income Groups, Barriers
Commonwealth of Learning, 2017
Access to quality educational materials is a challenge in many parts of the world, including in some developed countries. The emergence of open educational resources (OER) is a landmark development in the history of education. OER support the notion of knowledge as a social product and education for all as a human right. The Commonwealth of…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Instructional Materials
Islahuddin; Tolla, Ismail; Mansyur – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This research aims at describing the functions of education played by the family, school, community, and government in education partnerships in Makassar. It is also explaining the holistic model of education partnerships in Makassar. This study used a qualitative approach with a case study. The data were collected through interviews, observation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Models, Partnerships in Education
Schmidt, William H.; Burroughs, Nathan A.; Zoido, Pablo; Houang, Richard T. – Educational Researcher, 2015
In this paper, student-level indicators of opportunity to learn (OTL) included in the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment are used to explore the joint relationship of OTL and socioeconomic status (SES) to student mathematics literacy. Using multiple methods, we find consistent evidence that (a) OTL has a significant relationship…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Role, Educational Opportunities, Educational Indicators
Gonzales, Roberto G.; Heredia, Luisa L.; Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve – Harvard Educational Review, 2015
In this article, Roberto G. Gonzales, Luisa L. Heredia, and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales present a nuanced assessment of how undocumented immigrant students in the United States experience the public educational system. Though the landmark 1982 Supreme Court ruling "Plyler v. Doe" has resulted in hundreds of thousands of undocumented…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Undocumented Immigrants, Student Experience, Public Education
Huang, Haigen; Sebastian, James – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
Since the publication of the Coleman report in 1966, research on the role of schools in influencing student achievement relative to the role of family background has generated considerable interest and controversy. A large volume of international and comparative research has also been devoted to studying school effects on student achievement.…
Descriptors: School Role, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status
Koskimaa, Vesa; Rapeli, Lauri – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
There is a growing concern about the lack of political interest and engagement among Western youth. This has led to a revival of political socialization studies. One recent finding is that (late) adolescence is key to understanding the development of interest for politics. This study builds on this finding by examining political interest among…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Political Attitudes, School Role, Late Adolescents
Pang, Ming Fai; Go, Luis – Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
Parents in dysfunctional family situations and those in intact well-functioning families have distinct requirements for parental learning and parent education. For intact well-functioning families, a developmental-educational paradigm for parent education is more appropriate. Although school-based parent education is ideal for well-functioning…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Family Environment, Semi Structured Interviews, Workshops
Julie Rust – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to delve deeply into the sometimes clashing interplays in English classrooms to explore the ways in which new media makes visible long-existing discourses and assumptions about the purpose of schools and the roles of teachers and students. Design/methodology/approach: This piece draws upon discourse analysis and utilizes…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Arts
Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah R.; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Olcott, Don, Jr.; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; Bali, Maha; Alvarez, Abel V., Jr.; Roberts, Jennifer; Pazurek, Angelica; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Panagiotou, Nikos; de Coëtlogon, Perrine; Shahadu, Sadik; Brown, Mark; Asino, Tutaleni I.; Tumwesige, Josephine; Reyes, Tzinti Ramírez; Ipenza, Emma Barrios; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Bond, Melissa; Belhamel, Kamel; Irvine, Valerie; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Adam, Taskeen; Janssen, Ben; Sklyarova, Tatiana; Olcott, Nicoleta; Ambrosino, Alejandra; Lazou, Chrysoula; Mocquet, Bertrand; Mano, Mattias; Paskevicius, Michael – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary Secondary Education
