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Andrew Walker – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2024
Graduate business school programs have become increasingly reliant on international students to fill their classrooms. Because the United States is a top destination for candidates looking to pursue graduate management education (GME) abroad, understanding their views of the U.S. political and policy environment is crucial for business schools as…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Business Education, Foreign Students, Political Influences
Rotherham, Andrew J.; Foster, Kelly Robson; Corral, Michael D. – Bellwether, 2023
This document is the first of a semi-annual "stocktaking" publication to analyze various political trends impacting education and young people. Bellwether hopes to help the field separate signal from noise and provide context around various issues and trends affecting the sector. The impact of COVID-19 school closures on schools and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Political Influences, Enrollment
Universities UK, 2012
Higher education in the United Kingdom is undergoing a period of significant change. This is being driven by a number of factors: political, cultural, economic, and technological. The trends are global in their scope, and far reaching in their impact. They affect every aspect of university provision, the environment in which universities operate,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries, Teacher Role
McCubbin, Hamilton I., Ed.; Thompson, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Thompson, Anne I., Ed.; Fromer, Julie E., Ed. – 1998
This book is the first part of a two-volume collection devoted to issues facing racial and ethnic minority families. These chapters grew out of a conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which focused on the strengths and resources of minority families. They represent an effort to share knowledge that can be used for the design of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups
Kohn, Laura – 1996
Focusing on the experience of Seattle (Washington), this paper attempts to determine why school districts across the country have recently sought to de-emphasize segregation. Concerns about the validity of pursuing integration, particularly through busing, have been present throughout the history of school desegregation, but only recently is there…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Court Litigation, Desegregation Plans
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1997
This report presents conclusions and recommendations of a study of possible criteria to define educationally underserved populations in Texas in light of the 1994 Court decision (Hopwood v. Texas) ending the use of racial quotas. The study identified qualitative variables related to social and cultural factors and 10 quantitative criteria (such as…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Admission