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Whitman, David – Century Foundation, 2018
This report is in a series examining the troubled history of for-profit higher education, from the problems that plagued the post-World War II GI Bill to the reform efforts undertaken by the George H. W. Bush administration to the regulatory relapse under George W. Bush. From President Dwight Eisenhower to President George H. W. Bush, Republican…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Educational Legislation
Scafidi, Ben – EdChoice, 2023
In March 2022 a random sample of one third of Stride K12 families (37,856) were emailed a survey asking parents a series of questions about their families' experiences in their children's current Stride K12-powered online schools and their experiences in their children's former schools. 1,949 parents completed the survey, and of that total, 1,613…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes, Educational Technology, Virtual Schools
Koger, Marsha K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions of Maryland state legislators regarding a tuition-free community college education in the State of Maryland. All members of the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland State Senate were surveyed. The theoretical lens, which guides…
Descriptors: Legislators, State Officials, Attitudes, Community Colleges
Curnow, Joe; Davis, Amil; Asher, Lila – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
In this article, we explore longitudinal video data from the student activist group Fossil Free UofT to analyze what it means to become politicized. We argue that politicization is a sociocultural learning process, not merely a process of conceptual development or cognitive change, but a simultaneous process of conceptual, practical,…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Activism, Epistemology, Self Concept
The Association between School Policies, Practices, and Public Perception of Trans Youth in the U.S.
Persinger, Lisa L.; Persinger, Joey D.; Abercrombie, Sara – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2020
In this time, when social climate is particularly divisive with decreasing support for trans people in the U.S., we explore the general population's attitudes regarding protections for trans children. A survey of a nationally-representative sample of 765 U.S. adults yielded perspectives regarding policies and practices impacting trans children in…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, School Policy, Social Attitudes
Leslie K. Finger; Sarah Reckhow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Political parties in the U.S. are composed of networks of interest groups, according to the extended party network theory. Scholars have focused on national extended party networks. We use the case of education interest groups to explore how policy environments shape party networks on the state level. Using 145,000 campaign contributions from 2000…
Descriptors: Politics, Alignment (Education), State Policy, Politics of Education
Grossmann, Matt; Reckhow, Sarah; Strunk, Katharine O.; Turner, Meg – Educational Researcher, 2021
How did political factors and public health affect state and local education decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the continuation of in-person schooling? Using an original data set of state policies, we find that governors ordered school closures in spring 2020 but left decisions to districts in the fall, regardless of partisanship.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Political Affiliation, Politics of Education
Schleifer, David; Silliman, Rebecca; McNally, Erin – Public Agenda, 2021
After a challenging fall semester, a national survey from Public Agenda finds that K-12 teachers and parents are largely on the same page regarding education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just over half of both teachers and parents feel that their communities value teachers more now than before the pandemic. While only one-third of parents think…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Cargas, Sarita – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2018
In "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?," Neil Gross introduces research that suggests fifty to sixty percent of college professors are leftist or liberal, a much higher proportion than the seventeen percent of Americans in general. He posits the conservative fear that "bias" in higher education is a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Honors Curriculum, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Vukasovic, Martina; Birkholz, Julie; Brankovic, Jelena – European Journal of Education, 2019
While the European Parliament is increasingly involved in EU governance, its role in policy developments in domains of strategic importance for the EU has not been the focus of many studies. In this article, we analyse a new digital dataset containing more than 10,000 speeches delivered in the European Parliament plenary between 1999 and 2014 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Government (Administrative Body)
Mejri, Sami – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The number of international students studying at American colleges and universities has increased tremendously since 2000. The influx of global student mobility has had positive economic outcomes for higher education institutions in the U.S. and has given rise to voluminous literature concerning the cultural and educational experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Social Distance, Peer Relationship
Association of Community College Trustees, 2018
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) "Citizen Trustee Survey" is the most current look at the individuals providing leadership to community colleges across the country by serving on those institutions' governing boards. By conducting this survey, ACCT sought to gain a better understanding of trustees' backgrounds, roles,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Trustees, Governing Boards
Nitta, Keith Akio – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
Japan has made developing global human resources ("gurobaru jinzai ikusei") a national priority. The government has invested billions of yen annually to double the number of Japanese students studying overseas, double the number of globally competitive Japanese universities, and improve Japanese students' English test scores. A broad,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
Mancini, Christina; Cook, Amy K.; Smith, Jessica C.; McDougle, Robyn – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Recently, states have enacted teacher-carry laws. While controversial, little scholarship has tapped public attitudes toward such reforms. Because public opinion shapes policy, the public is an important stakeholder in this debate. Thus, we investigated three questions. First, how supportive is the public of arming teachers? Second, what…
Descriptors: Weapons, Teacher Role, School Safety, Public Opinion
Ghosn, Emma; Akkary, Rima Karami – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
Teacher unions worldwide are being criticized for disregarding their responsibility as professionals towards education and students. Critics have claimed that teacher unions tend to protect incompetent teachers, place their own needs and interests above their students, and continuously demand for financial increases even when there is more urgency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Unions, Neoliberalism