Despite significant physical, emotional, and cognitive benefits, outdoor and environmental education (OEE) is not regularly implemented within a K-12 setting. Yet there are some teachers across the United States who have embraced OEE in a thoughtful and innovative way, successfully overcoming noteworthy barriers. The goal of this study was to…

School superintendents face complex issues on a regular basis, these issues include but are not limited to scarce resources, the politics of the school board and conflicting demands from the community (Noppe, Yager, Webb, & Sheng, 2013). In March 2020, the United States faced an unprecedented event when the COVID-19 pandemic forced many…

News sharing has become a common user behavior in social networking services (SNS) and has been extensively studied as an emerging community practice. This dissertation presents four studies extending current news sharing knowledge. It also provides promising new directions for future investigation. Study 1: suggests that news sharing is a complex…

The study sought to understand the experiences of faculty engaged in curriculum reform to integrate social determinants of health in medical education. The continuing disparities in health are in part a result of lack of education at U.S. medical schools on social and structural inequities as root causes of health disparities. The study used a…

The role of intrusive advising in the persistence of community college students has not been well-studied even though intrusive advising has been touted as a practice to improve retention in U.S. community colleges. Student retention is important for sustaining community colleges that serve as open admissions institutions because they are…

Continuation high schools and the students they serve are often invisible and ignored to most Californians. However, state school authorities estimate that over 115,000 California high school students will pass through one of the state's 519 continuation high schools each year, to either graduate with a diploma, or to drop out of school altogether…

High school graduation has long been recognized as an important turning point to young adulthood, opening up the doors for future vocational and economic activities. In Washington State, students with disabilities still drop out at rates that are significantly higher than their peers, hampering their ability to achieve this graduation milestone.…

In order to update the status of the research on quality of life (QoL) of adults with ASD, a systematic review was carried out following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses' (PRISMA) protocol. Eleven articles were selected from different databases. Results show lower levels of QoL in people with ASD than in the…

This study sought to identify and a) describe current demographic patterns of school administrators and make relative comparisons to national trends, b) understand daily/weekly workload expectations, c) examine job satisfaction and consider the impact of COVID-19, and d) examine available training and supports for principals, the perceived impact…

This systematic review identified 10 process evaluation studies of positive youth development (PYD) programmes for disadvantaged young people, and aimed to assess the quality of reporting, methods used, and barriers and enablers to delivering programmes as intended. Four databases were searched: Web of Science, Psych INFO, Scopus, and Embase.…

There continues to be a problem with schools being able to effectively address the increase in student mental health issues and school shootings. America's educational system is under attack because some students decided to enter schools armed and prepared to inflict harm by killing students and staff members instead of learning. A need for this…

The CUPA-HR Higher Education Employee Retention Survey (ERS) was created to better understand the factors underlying the retention crisis that continues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic -- the reasons higher ed employees are looking for other employment, the characteristics of those at risk for leaving, and what higher ed leaders can do to…

This report summarises the findings of the EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group "Needs and wellbeing of students and staff", which was active throughout 2022. It outlines aspects of a higher education institution's activities which the group identified as having the most influence on individual wellbeing. The group conducted…

For organisations to thrive, their employees need to be trained and developed. The training must be specific and targeted to the benefit of both the individual employee and the organisation they serve. The training and development can be for the development of the individual which will directly benefit the organisation. In reverse, whole…

Autistic people are under-represented in university student populations, but their numbers are growing, and the barriers to their inclusion are being recognised. Outside of the student body, autistic people in academia are often overlooked, although this is starting to change with the growth in inclusive autism research. However, they remain…