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Munje, Paul N.; Jita, Loyiso C. – Educational Practice and Theory, 2019
In this paper the authors use the collaboration framework to explore the implementation of the School Feeding Scheme (SFS) in two primary schools within South Africa. The authors use a qualitative approach to gather data through individual and focus group interviews with two principals and eight teachers respectively. The feeding process was also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Disadvantaged Schools
Shuzhen Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study explores U.S. principals' challenges, successes, and best practices in leading Mandarin Chinese immersion programs in high-need rural schools in a Midwestern state. The study addresses cultural efficiency, increasing student enrollment through principalship preparation, and attracting the interest of parents…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
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Tosh, Katie; Schwartz, Heather L.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The Wallace Foundation's Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI) is a six-year initiative that The Wallace Foundation launched in 2017 to explore whether and how children benefit when schools and their out-of-school-time programs partner to improve social and emotional learning (SEL), as well as what it takes to do this…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Program Implementation
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Mihai, Maryke; Nieuwenhuis, Jan – South African Journal of Education, 2015
This study concerns the management of an interactive whiteboard (IWB) network started in April 2008 in Mpumalanga, with a leading school partnered with several disadvantaged schools, transmitting lessons in Mathematics and Science. Many educational institutions try to provide learners with better learning opportunities by equipping schools with…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Rural Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Mathematics Instruction
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Cook, Paul G. – Across the Disciplines, 2014
This institutional autoethnography (IAE) explores the political and pedagogical dynamics of WPA and WAC/WID work within an exceedingly small, resolutely single-sex, and assuredly rural liberal arts campus ecology. Working within a theoretical framework informed by WAC/WID's historical commitment to increasing literacy in students from diverse…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Program Administration, Ethnography, Institutional Characteristics
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Wang, Jianjun – Grantee Submission, 2014
Over the past five years, California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) recruited 39 Noyce Scholars for STEM teacher preparation in high-needs schools. As of April 1, 2014, the program has saved approximate $150,000 of NSF funding for this grant. In this summative report, program effectiveness has been examined in three aspects, "Noyce…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Research Reports, STEM Education, Teacher Education Programs
National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, IL. – 1977
Eighteen case studies which supplement the National Survey of Compensatory Education are presented. This survey evaluated Title I-funded special services to low achieving students in poor schools, and was conducted by the National Institute of Education. The case studies describe health, guidance, psychological, social work, and other…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Services, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Schools