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What Comes after Lunch? Alternative Measures of Economic and Social Disadvantage and Their Implications for Education Research. Research in Education Fiscal Policy and Practice
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Thomas Downes Ed.; Kieran M. Killeen Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
Faced with the problem of how to measure the magnitude of economic disadvantage in the populations served by schools or districts, researchers addressing school finance topics have invariably turned to the fraction of students eligible for free- or reduced-lunches (FRPL). But the facile dependence on FRPL may be problematic. A large and growing…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Measurement Techniques, Lunch Programs
National and Transnational Elite Influences on Education: A Comparative Perspective on Shaping and Justifying Reforms. Educational Governance Research. Volume 27
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Romuald Normand, Editor; Lejf Moos, Editor; Luís Miguel Carvalho, Editor – Educational Governance Research, 2025
This collection focuses on transformations in the governance of education, paying attention to the trans-nationalisation of educational policies and the emergence of new actors in education. It focuses on the knowledge and instruments of government that shape education systems at different scales of governance. The book is a contribution to this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Educational Policy
Faculty Work and the Public Good: Philanthropy Engagement and Academic Professionalism
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Shaker, Genevieve G., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2015
At a time when faculty roles are under great scrutiny and faculty work itself has an uncertain future, this book offers a new approach to examining academic professionalism. This collection of essays applies a philanthropic lens to contemporary debates and considers academic work completed out of a moral responsibility to the public good. It…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, College Faculty, Professionalism, Higher Education
Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry. Third Edition
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Denzin, Norman K., Ed.; Lincoln, Yvonna S., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
"Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition," the second volume in the paperback version of "The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition," consists of Part III of the handbook ("Strategies of Inquiry"). "Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition" presents the major tactics--historically, the research methods--that…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Action Research, Research Methodology, Social Action
New Ways of Paying for College.
Hauptman, Arthur – 1991
This monograph investigates and discusses the various approaches of innovative financing initiatives in higher education which have developed over the last few years. The 16 chapters and authors are as follows: "Stresses in the Student Financial Aid System" (Martin Kramer); "Evolution and Prospects of Financing Alternatives for…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Corporate Support, Economically Disadvantaged
New Labour's Policies for Schools: Raising the Standard?
Docking, Jim, Ed. – 2000
This book, which is designed primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of education, contains 12 papers devoted the New Labour's policies for schools in the United Kingdom. "Introduction" (Jim Docking) presents an overview of the book's contents and lists questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of New Labour's educational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Comparative Analysis