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Villavicencio, Adriana; Hill, Kathryn; Klevan, Sarah – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2020
Like other institutions, the country's education system is challenged by systemic racism. Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools remain largely segregated by race. Predominantly White school districts receive far more funding compared with districts that serve mostly students of color. Black and Brown children are more likely…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Racial Bias, School Districts, Teacher Expectations of Students
Temkin, Deborah; Fulks, Emily – Child Trends, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the ways schools and other youth-serving agencies are operating. To prevent the continued spread of the virus, many schools and agencies have moved to virtual only or hybrid virtual/in-person activities. Along with adapting many other activities, schools and agencies' approaches to bullying…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Legislation, Board of Education Policy
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Hinnant-Crawford, Brandi – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2016
Guided by Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) this study sought to understand how teachers view themselves as educational policy actors and to construct an instrument that measures teacher beliefs about their aptitude to advocate for changes in educational policy. This study employed a sequential explanatory design, characterized by quantitative data…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Policy, Social Cognition, Advocacy
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Rasyad, Ach. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
This research is aiming at describing: (1) the implementation of community empowerment training of PKH companions, (2) types of participative evaluation used in the PKH companion training, and (3) obstacles and supporting factors in PKH companion training using the participative evaluation. The study employed qualitative approach with case study…
Descriptors: Community Education, Empowerment, Training Methods, Program Implementation
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Casanovas-Rubio, Maria del Mar; Ahearn, Alison; Ramos, Gonzalo; Popo-Ola, Sunday – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
In principle, the research-teaching nexus should be seen as a two-way link, showing not only ways in which research supports teaching but also ways in which teaching supports research. In reality, the discussion has been limited almost entirely to the first of these practices. This paper presents a case study in which some student field-trip…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Case Studies, Field Trips
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Runge, Timothy J.; Longwill, Douglas A.; Staszkiewicz, Mark J.; Palmiero, James; Lawson, Tina M. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
Pennsylvania began scaling up high-fidelity implementation of SchoolWide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) in 2006-2007 due to converging regulatory, legal, ethical, and practical influences. The Pennsylvania Community of Practice on School-Based Behavioral Health adopted Algozzine et al.'s (2010) blueprint to describe and…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Social Networks, Positive Behavior Supports, Fidelity
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Chapman, Jared R.; Seeley, Eugene L.; Wright, Norman S.; Glenn, Lowell M.; Adams, Lynn L. – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
Electronic course materials have several advantages over printed materials. While these advantages create an enticing argument for the adoption of electronic textbooks, there are disadvantages that may hobble e-text adoption. This case study investigates the e-text adoption process for 50 class sections across 8 business disciplines with 27…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Business Administration Education, Intervention, Electronic Learning
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Robertson, Rachel E. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
No studies of parent-implemented behavior interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have purposefully examined their effectiveness and acceptability with African American families. The present study used a multiple baseline across participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of parent-implemented differential…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, African Americans, Program Effectiveness
DiCicco, Marzia Cozzolino – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
This article addresses the present gap in empirical research on the possibilities and challenges of global citizenship education in U.S. public schools by presenting findings from a five-year, ethnographic case study. The setting for this study is Olympus High School, a small, suburban public high school in Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 2009-2010…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Education, Global Approach, Accountability
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Hariadi, Bambang; Dewiyani Sunarto, M. J.; Sudarmaningtyas, Pantjawati – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
This study aimed to develop a web-based learning application as a form of learning revolution. The form of learning revolution includes the provision of unlimited teaching materials, real time class organization, and is not limited by time or place. The implementation of this application is in the form of hybrid learning by using Google Apps for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Web Based Instruction, Blended Learning
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Cunningham, Charles E.; Rimas, Heather; Mielko, Stephanie; Mapp, Cailin; Cunningham, Lesley; Buchanan, Don; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Chen, Yvonne; Deal, Ken; Marcus, Madalyn – Journal of School Violence, 2016
Prevention programs yield modest reductions in bullying in North American schools. This study explored the perspective of educators regarding factors limiting the impact of these initiatives. Transcripts from nineteen 90-min focus groups with 103 educators were coded thematically. Educators felt that off-site incidents, cyberbullying, and the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Crime Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Thematic Approach
Fenton-Smith, Ben; Gurney, Laura – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nearly two decades have passed since Kaplan and Baldauf [1997. "Language planning from practice to theory." Clevedon: Multilingual Matters] drew attention to the dearth of language policy and planning (LPP) in higher education. Despite the continuing inflow of English as an additional language students into Anglophone universities, and a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Academic Discourse, Educational Policy, Higher Education
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Ward, S. C.; Bagley, C.; Lumby, J.; Hamilton, T.; Woods, P.; Roberts, A. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This article examines "policy" and "policy response" through documentary analysis and an illustrative study of policy implementation. Our approach is informed by Foucault's (2009) theory that power relations in society are conditioned by a culturally generated set of ideas, and that these relations contain the space for both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Leadership
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Rocha, Ana Cristina; Leal, Cláudia; Duarte, Cidália – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Portugal, like many other countries, faces obstacles regarding school-based sexuality education. This paper explores Portuguese schools' approaches to implementing sexuality education at a local level, and provides a critical analysis of potential strengths and weaknesses. Documents related to sexuality education in a convenience sample of 89…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Educational Practices, Educational Methods
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Acosta, Imee C.; Acosta, Alexander S. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The focus of this study is on the readiness of higher education institutions in the Philippines to the implementation of the Senior High School program of the new K-12 curriculum. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire. The findings reveal five predisposing factors, namely: eligibility, staffing guidelines, course streamlining,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Program Implementation
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