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Direct linkMartien Conjaerts; Slavi Stoyanov; Eric Edelman; Paul Kirschner; Renate de Groot – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: Overweight and obesity among school-aged children pose a threat to both their academic performance and public health. The Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) initiative was established to address this issue. Our objective was to explore the conditions that make HPSF sustainable based on the perspectives of relevant…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Parents, Administrators, Academic Achievement
Arethetta Ming – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Many households in America struggled to find healthy nutritious food options for their family within their local community. Families went hungry and needed access to food. The USDA reported in 2017 that nearly 41 million Americans faced hunger including 13 million children. This study identified solutions used by city and educational leaders in an…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Leaders, City Government, Public Officials
Hornak, Anne M.; Ozaki, C. Casey; Latz, Amanda O.; Royer, Dan W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Community college student affairs and services units are foundation to students' academic goals and success. As such, these professionals are often central to the critical initiatives and trends developing throughout 2-year institutions to support the overarching goals of student success. For the most part, these initiatives originated during…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Achievement
Rebora, Anthony – Educational Leadership, 2021
Miguel A. Cardona, the former commissioner of education in Connecticut, became the U.S. Secretary of Education on March 2, 2021, taking office in the midst of an historic pandemic that had profoundly reshaped the nation's schools. In his initial months on the job, Cardona- also a one-time public school teacher and principal--has focused closely on…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Public Officials, Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten
Download full textRosidin, Undang; Herpratiwi; Suana, Wayan; Firdaos, Rijal – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
This study was conducted to analyze (a) the suitability of National Examination (UN) and national-based school examination (USBN) implementation, which has been running on the current guidelines and efforts to improve students' achievements, (b) the final examination system that is relevant in measuring student competency achievement based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Program Implementation
Camphuijsen, Marjolein K.; Møller, Jorunn; Skedsmo, Guri – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This paper investigates how and why test-based accountability (TBA), a global model for education reform, began to dominate educational debates in Norway in the early 2000s, and how this policy has been operationalised and institutionalised over time. In examining the adoption and retention of TBA in Norway, we build on the cultural political…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Officials, Educational Policy, Standards
Potter, Halley; Toribio, Loris; Vadehra, Emma; Budhram, Nirvani; Burris, Michelle; Hackett, Jaylen; Lallinger, Stefan; Powell, Chansi; Villarreal, Rosario Quiroz; Welch, Allie – Century Foundation, 2021
For many New Yorkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted their ability not only to thrive, but to survive. This reality has been particularly true for the city's children and for the parents, caregivers, and educators who work hard to support them. The pandemic initially forced all of New York City's school buildings to close,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Pandemics, COVID-19
Vanessa Scherman; Brigitte Smit – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The issue of quality education is a critical topic of discussion, for South Africa facing the challenge of implementation amid a plethora of progressive policies. The purpose of the research reported here is to describe the procedures undertaken to explore the feasibility of implementing a monitoring system in the South African context. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Cultural Context, Information Systems
Domanico, Ray – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2022
New York State's system of public elementary and secondary schools is in steep decline, but it is salvageable. The roots of its problems pre-date the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, but the system's response to that challenge accelerated discontent with the schools and harmed students. The damage of those years will not be undone if…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Guirguis, Ruth; Pankowski, Jennifer – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to explore in detail the research by Hattie (2009) in order to then re-examine it through a new lens and better understand the research and possible bias. For this study, the unit of analysis were the studies used in Hattie (2009). The criteria for inclusion were based on strategies currently implemented in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Meta Analysis
Zimmer, Ron; Gill, Brian; Attridge, Jonathon; Obenauf, Kaitlin – Education Finance and Policy, 2014
In the academic and policy debates over the merits of charter schools, two things are clear: First, they are here to stay and, second, their quality varies widely. Policy makers therefore need to understand how to design charter laws that promote the creation of high-performing schools. Crucial to this discussion is the charter authorizing…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Quality, Public Officials, Educational Legislation
Ingle, Kyle; Thompson, Cynthia T.; Abla, Zipporah W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions: what characteristics do key Belizean educational leaders value in teacher applicants and why? What hiring tools do they use to ascertain whether teacher applicants have the characteristics they prefer? Design/methodology/approach: The authors utilized a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Teacher Selection, Administrator Attitudes
Scott, Caitlin; McMurrer, Jennifer – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
This article summarizes findings and lessons learned about implementing school improvement grant (SIG) initiatives in rural areas of the United States. The study examines state-level survey data based on the proportion of rural schools receiving SIG funds in the fall of 2010 in each state. In addition, the authors summarize related findings from…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement, Grants
Takayama, Keita; Lingard, Bob – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
This paper traces the complexities, contingencies and tensions involved in the creation of a new, 'scientific' assessment in what we call Prefecture A in Japan. We start with a thick, granular description of the complicated and ongoing narrative of a new policy emergence. This descriptive account serves as a precursor to our application of an…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Psychometrics, Public Officials, International Organizations
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
