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Brian Dauenhauer; Jaimie McMullen; Jennifer Krause; Taemin Ha; Lisa Paulson; Veronica Becerrra; Jessica Pena; Bryanna Mieles – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Within a whole-of-school approach to student wellness, comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) offer opportunities for physical activity before, during, and after the school day. However, to successfully influence behavior and fully reap the physical, cognitive, and psychological benefits of an active lifestyle, schools must…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Change, Wellness, Physical Activities
Grunwald, Sandra; Vianden, Becky; Morgan, Betsy – Assessment Update, 2023
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL), as a public comprehensive regional university of approximately 10,500 students, utilized National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data regarding advising to jumpstart several key advancements that have yielded positive improvements as indicated in the most recent NSSE assessment data. Despite strong…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Academic Advising, Comprehensive Programs, College Freshmen
Hill, Dave – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
There are lines of demarcation between the political left and right, and also within the left, as regards central matters of education policy and how the purpose and value of education may be understood. This article details and distinguishes what is at stake, in particular between a revolutionary Marxist left and other currents, as regards a…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
Ranson, Stewart – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
The post-war consensus has been dismantled in favour of a culture that rewards and empowers a small acquisitive elite at the expense of the great majority. This culture actively prevents the creation of a society of mutual recognition and respect. But without just such a society there can be no true comprehensive education. Where it exists,…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Democratic Values, Political Issues, Holistic Approach
Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article reflects on the two subsequent articles--the first by Mike Davies and the second by David Taylor--that provide exhilarating challenges to the diminishing and demeaning status quo of current education policy and practice in England.
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Harris, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This reflection does not pretend to be a scientific survey of curriculum trends but is, as the title suggests, a personal reminiscence of governorship across different phases of education, with snippets about the curriculum that my memory recalls.
Descriptors: Reflection, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Admission Criteria
Martin, Jane – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This article is based on an inaugural professorial lecture given by Jane Martin at the University of Birmingham on 3 December 2014. It grew out of research in progress on the life and work of the leading educational reformer, Caroline Benn, wife of one of the most prominent and controversial post-war socialists in Britain, Tony Benn.
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Martínez Morales, Ignacio; Bernad i Garcia, Joan Carles; Molpeceres Pastor, Mariángeles; López, Míriam Abiétar; Navas Saurin, Almudena; Marhuenda Fluixá, Fernando; Giménez Urraco, Elena – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
Throughout the history of education different conceptions have been developed about the role and the function that education has in society as a whole. Such conceptions have been constructed around different discourses that show underlying social conflicts. The different educational practices acquire their legitimacy through such discourses, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
Hayton, Carol – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
The author is a long-time advocate inside the Labour Party for ending selective education and the 11-plus. She outlines how Labour Party frontbenchers routinely ignore or deflect calls from Party members to stand up for comprehensive education in both word and deed. As UKIP, whose policy is to extend selective education more widely, rises in the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Imison, Tamsyn, Ed.; Heilbronn, Ruth, Ed.; Williams, Liz, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2013
Schools in England are radically changing their organization and governance, casting aside the founding principle of the 1944 Education Act that education is a public service and abandoning the ideal of education as nurturing a sense of community. This book presents a portrait of a successful comprehensive school, between the years 1980 and 2000.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Ratzer, Mary Boyd – Knowledge Quest, 2014
To be recognized and adopted, the promise and potential of national standards must validate the instructional role of the school librarian and build formative knowledge through authentic process and products. Inquiry is a direct link to those dimensions. Standards that are rigorous and relevant optimize the developing brain's affinity for building…
Descriptors: State Standards, School Libraries, Library Role, Social Studies
Ranson, Stewart – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
Behind the thin veil of the Conservative regime's rationale of deficit reduction hides the final demolition of public comprehensive education and Raymond Williams's more expansive long revolution unfolding over a century of creating a democratic state that affords opportunity, voice and justice for all. Restoring the politics of a pre-war or…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Democracy, Democratic Values, Change Strategies
Lazarus, Joan – University of Chicago Press, 2012
There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting students and those who educate them. That's why Joan Lazarus has gathered here the insights of hundreds of theater teachers and teaching artists on how they have responded to the shifting demands of theater education in today's schools. She paints a portrait of active,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Best Practices, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change
Wyner, Josh – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In the United States, people think of elementary and secondary education as fundamentally different from higher education. The first two levels are where students are expected to learn the building blocks for lifelong learning, while college is meant to confer higher-order thinking and more-specialized skills. How students are treated flows…
Descriptors: Tenure, Community Colleges, Educational Change, College Students
Rance-Roney, Judith – Educational Leadership, 2011
For many English language learners, the endgame isn't passing state exams--it's attending and graduating from college. Yet schools often focus on a lower target: proficiency. To support the transition of English language learners to postsecondary success, schools should create formal transition plans, provide differentiated guidance, focus on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English, Language Proficiency