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Holbert, Nathan; DiSalvo, Betsy; Berland, Matthew – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: CS4All is an $81 million private-public investment aimed at creating the necessary infrastructure to provide computer science experiences to all New York City public-school students by 2025. Purpose: In this paper, we examine the history of the CS4All initiative and document the network of actors and their relationships in the system…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Access to Education
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Bryan Powell; Donna Hewitt; Gareth Dylan Smith; Beatrice Olesko; Virginia Davis – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2020
Despite decades of discussion, debate, and incremental gains, acceptance of popular music education in collegiate institutions is still in its inception. Higher education (and indeed, education in general) in the United States is rife with pervasive inequality and injustice, excluding large numbers of potential students on the basis of race,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Music Education, Inclusion
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Schmid, Evi – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in reducing early leaving from education and training, and integrating youth at risk in upper secondary education. To ensure that more young people complete upper secondary education, the OECD suggests designing interventions that address the specific needs of youth at risk such as…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, At Risk Persons, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Abeywardena, Ishan Sudeera; Uys, Philip; Fifita, Seilosehina – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
In the race towards achieving the Education 2030 agenda, open educational resources (OER) act as a key enabler for sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4). Leading to the 2014 Regional Focal Points Meeting, Commonwealth of Learning's (COL) Focal Point for Tonga had identified top priorities for the country where COL can further support the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shared Resources and Services, Sustainability, Career Readiness
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Telsey, Alison; Levine, Laurie – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
In April 2011, the Journal of Staff Development (JSD) published "Lessons from Bhutan: Embrace cultural differences to effect change" (Levine, Telsey, & McCormack, 2011), which described the experiences of several U.S. educators who learned their own transformative lessons while leading professional learning in special education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Change, Disabilities
National College Access Network, 2013
Preparing to Dream (PTD)--a 4-year initiative (2007-2011)-created a college-going culture in five Houston-area school districts in Texas's Education Service Center (ESC) Region 4. National College Access Network (NCAN) and Houston A+ Challenge (Houston A+) partnered with the schools to transform both their campus/district priorities and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Readiness, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Traphagen, Kathleen – Grantmakers for Education, 2014
It is often noted that children spend most of their waking hours out of school. What they do during non-school hours is important, because access to high-quality learning, both in and out-of-school, is key to cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development. In the United States today, demand for after-school programs outstrips supply: 8.4…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Youth Programs, Surveys, Interviews
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Robinson, David W. – Christian Higher Education, 2012
The movement of the Germanic peoples from the barbaric state that the Romans found them in during the days of Julius Caesar to the highly civilized and educated condition of today is a long and complex history. At the heart of that development over the centuries was first the shift to Roman culture; then the slow adoption of Roman Catholicism and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Protestants, Role
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Carson, Steve – Open Learning, 2009
This article traces the development of the OpenCourseWare movement, including the origin of the concept at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the implementation of the MIT OpenCourseWare project, and the idea's spread into the global educational community, ultimately resulting in the formation of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Consortia, Educational Resources, Educational History
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Kinsella, William; Senior, Joyce – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2008
This paper emerges from an ongoing study which involved, firstly, key informant interviews with strategic personnel within the Irish education system, such personnel representing both service providers and service users. The first part of this paper provides a brief summary of the findings of that aspect of the study in relation to the key…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Educational Change, Psychology, School Personnel
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Muse, Charles T.; And Others – Community College Review, 1993
Discusses the decision by Florence-Darlington Technical College to waive its Scholastic Achievement Test entrance requirement for nursing degree applicants over 24 years old who could successfully complete the science component of the associate degree nursing curriculum. Discusses effects of the policy change on grades, attrition rates, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Educational Change
Cerych, Ladislav – 1979
The process of implementation of higher education reforms at nine universities and colleges in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom is identified and compared; and a framework for implementation analysis is presented. After a brief review of the background for the study, the conceptual…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Achieve, Inc., 2009
To give states the information they need to sustain hard-fought education reform effectively, Achieve conducted research on state education reforms that have been sustained successfully for over a decade or more. Funded by the GE Foundation, Achieve hopes this work will help other state leaders, wherever they may be on their road to reform,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Change, Case Studies
Randall, Ruth E. – 1990
A new paradigm for putting school choice into perspective is offered in this paper, which argues that the administrative model of setting standards and increasing funding is not working for American schools. Choice, based on the market model, is advocated as a way to provide incentives and opportunities for change. Although choice programs take…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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