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Direct linkTaylor, Henry Louis; McGlynn, Linda; Luter, D. Gavin – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Where you find distressed neighborhoods, you will also find poorly performing public schools. Yet many contemporary school reform efforts ignore neighborhood-level factors that undeniably impact school performance. The purpose of this study is to use a case study approach with social institutional and urban school reform regime frameworks to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Role, Neighborhood Improvement, Case Studies
Saunders, Danny; Marshall, Helen; Cowe, Francis; Payne, Robert; Rogers, Andrew – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This case study outlines the emergence of a large higher education partnership in a sub-region of Wales which has for many years been associated with a low skills stereotype involving unemployment, poverty and deprivation. It contextualises the difficulties and challenges of 2008--the time when the Universities Heads of the Valleys Institute…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Case Studies, Lifelong Learning
Maringe, Felix; Masinire, Alfred; Nkambule, Thabisile – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Multiple deprivation affects a large proportion of schools in South Africa. The past 20 years of democracy have tended to focus on reforming education through curricula revision and a raft of redress-directed interventions, through the application of what we call a broad-brush policy approach. The paper argues that a broad-brush policy application…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Schools
Welton, Anjale; Williams, Montrischa – High School Journal, 2015
Currently school reform discourse encourages states to adopt college readiness standards. Meanwhile, federal and state accountability and related mandated reforms remain a policy concern. As such, it is important to examine the interplay between accountability and the establishment of a college-going culture in high "minority", high…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Readiness, College Bound Students, High School Students
Alsop, Steve; Ames, Patricia; Arroyo, Graciela Cordero; Dippo, Don – International Review of Education, 2010
This article explores distinctive features of a 5-year international education development project set in rural northern Peru (PROMEB, the "Proyecto de Mejoramiento de la Educacion Basica"). Grounded within a partnership between teacher educators from Peru, Mexico and Canada, and rural Peruvian teachers, students and their communities,…
Descriptors: Community Development, International Education, Demonstration Programs, Foreign Countries
Download full textLumadi, Mutendwahothe Walter – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2008
African teachers in general and South Africans in particular face tremendous challenges, several of which are curriculum related. These challenges manifest themselves at various levels and in various areas, that is, from national level to within the classroom. There are various role players who may make a contribution towards overcoming these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Mobility, Educational Change, Disadvantaged Schools
