The Massachusetts Multi-City Young Children's System of Care Project was a federally funded program to provide integrated early childhood mental health (ECMH) services in primary care for families of very young children (birth-six years old) with Serious Emotional Disturbances across three cities in Massachusetts, U.S.A. This study describes…

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), together with the Region 10 Comprehensive Center (R10CC), conducted a survey of educators in Minnesota public schools to better understand which schools are implementing competency-based education (CBE) practices and to learn more about their goals, successes, and challenges. These insights will help…

The COVID-19 pandemic created a world where technology access, resources, and the ability to communicate online were necessary to learn, teach, and lead. The problem addressed by this study was the technology skills gap exhibited by school leaders as they digitally transformed their schools through the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this…

Higher education institutions continue to make significant strides in increasing the number of women in leadership positions, however, there continues to be an underrepresentation of women in leadership positions at higher education institutions in the Western United States. To explore the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions, the…

This article presents the insights collected from an engaged interactive round table session, where participants came together to collaboratively brainstorm and deliberate upon best practices for effectively educating and mentoring Generation Z adult learners in both classroom and workplace settings. Drawing upon the extensive body of literature…

The problem to be addressed in this study was most special education high school teachers are not adequately teaching job transferable skills to students with intellectual disabilities in American. The purpose of this exploratory case study was to investigate the beliefs of special education high school teachers within a rural Colorado school…

The United States is becoming a more diverse nation but that racial/ethnic diversity is not reflected in the teaching workforce. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of underrepresented teachers in schools where there are diverse student populations but low teacher diversity. The goal of this descriptive…

This study examines the performance of female students in higher education institutions in Sierra Leone, with a focus on Njala University. Using a mixed methods research design, the study integrates quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews to obtain comprehensive data from female students across Njala University. A total of 700 of the 2029…

While there has been significant research on both how academic struggles impact college students, as well as factors that impact the sense of belonging for college students, there has been little research examining how a significant academic struggle impacts a students' perception of sense of belonging at that institution. This qualitative study…

The objective of this research is to look into the inclusion of children with neurological diseases in Indian education. According to the research, a substantial proportion of children in India have neurological disorders, and they frequently face barriers to education. The study examines the current situation of education for children with…

In order to function properly, education systems rely on effective coordination between different units, divided into different levels -- from central to decentralised -- and between various services and directorates. These units and actors are all involved in achieving a common goal: student success. To ensure this success, an open and fluid…

Academic leaders in higher education come by and large from majority white faculty. This article describes the development of a consortium-based faculty leadership program intentionally designed for Black and Latino faculty, the specific ways the program components addressed issues of race in the context of leadership, and the recruitment…

Dominican-born children of Haitian descent are frequently excluded from the public education system in the Dominican Republic. Barriers to participation include poverty, discriminatory government policies, and structural barriers within school settings. Females of Haitian descent face additional barriers due to gender discrimination. The current…

The body of work regarding gender bias in academia shows that female instructors are often rated lower by students than their male counterparts. Mechanisms are complex and intersectional and often associated with role congruity theory. Little research has examined parallel patterns in graduate teaching assistant (TA) evaluations. In research…

This study aimed to assess the fertility knowledge of Japanese education undergraduates who plan to become schoolteachers and examine related factors. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with 252 first-year education undergraduates at a Japanese university. The Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale (CFKS) was used to measure fertility…