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Stanford, Angela; Wilson, Connie; Barker, Emily – Science and Children, 2018
One plausible method for ensuring students are truly understanding science fundamentals beyond being actively and intellectually engaged is to consider how informal learning environments can provide meaningful relevancy by connecting to real-world instances. Transforming traditional science centers into informal learning centers will ensure that…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Science Education, Informal Education, Educational Change
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2018
The Ministry of Education role is to provide leadership and funding to the K-12 education system, through governance, legislation, policy and standards in British Columbia. It places student success at the centre of its mandate, by continually focusing on improving results and ensuring equity of access and outcomes for all learners. This year more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Preston, John – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
In the 1960s federal agencies in the US encouraged the building of protected schools designed to survive a nuclear attack. A number of designs, including underground schools, were constructed. In order to promote the building of protected schools, the US government produced a number of propaganda films for school boards and governors. In addition…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, War, National Security
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Yuliani, Sri; Hartanto, Dicki – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine the role of education and how the involvement of governments, companies and communities themselves in promoting education in the area, which in this case took the case to at Riau, Indonesia. Total population of this research was that people in the district of Pinggir Bengkalis, and the samples were 24…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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James-MacEachern, Melissa; Yun, Dongkoo – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: There is little research into small higher education institutions and international students' choice in selecting these institutions. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that influence international student choices in selecting a small institution. In particular, this study compares the differences between Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Choice
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Redford, Morag – Scottish Educational Review, 2017
This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2017), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between September 2016 and January 2017. The following bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from January to August 2017.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parliamentary Procedures, Committees, Educational Legislation
District of Columbia Public Schools, 2017
Just over a decade ago, Washington, District of Columbia (DC) made the choice to transform the way public education works for students, families, and educators in the District. In order to set more young Washingtonians up for success in school and in life, the choice was made to invest in the modernization of outdated buildings throughout the city…
Descriptors: Public Education, Equal Education, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Change
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DeLoatch, Eugene M., Ed.; McClain, Aliecia R., Ed.; Jackson, Leigh Miles, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2022
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) represent a valuable resource to expand the Department of Defense's (DoD) government and extramural workforce and science and technology enterprise. The more than 400 public and private HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Anwowie, Samuel; Amoako, Joseph; Abrefa, Amma Adomaa – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Higher educational institutions are increasingly placing greater emphasis on meeting students' expectations and needs as student perceptions of higher educational facilities and services are becoming more important. To investigate students' satisfaction of service quality at the Takoradi Polytechnic, a study was conducted using the SERVQUAL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Satisfaction, College Students, Expectation
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Bowers, Alex J.; Chen, Jingjing – Journal of Education Finance, 2015
The purpose of this study is to bring together recent innovations in the research literature around school district capital facility finance, municipal bond elections, statistical models of conditional time-varying outcomes, and data mining algorithms for automated text mining of election ballot proposals to examine the factors that influence the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Districts, Financial Support, Bond Issues
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Brkovic, Marta – Improving Schools, 2015
Since 2000, when education reform in Serbia began education goals, teachers' training, curriculum and teaching/learning methods have been modernised and improved. However, a closer examination of the schools built from 2000 onwards reveals that architectural design of primary schools rests on standardised school design schemes from socialist…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, School Buildings
Pons, Anna; Amoroso, Jeremie; Herczynski, Jan; Kheyfets, Igor; Lockheed, Marlaine; Santiago, Paulo – OECD Publishing, 2015
This joint OECD-World Bank report for Kazakhstan forms part of the OECD Review of Policies to Improve the Effectiveness of Resource Use in Schools. The purpose of the Review is to explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. School resources are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Betty A. Rosa, Contributor; Jeffrey Matteson, Contributor; Jason Harmon, Contributor; William Murphy, Contributor; Angelique Johnson-Dingle, Contributor; Ceylane Meyers-Ruff, Contributor; Michael Mastroianni, Contributor; David Hamilton, Contributor; Daniel Morton-Bentley, Contributor; Christina Coughlin, Contributor; Jennifer Trowbridge, Contributor; Lauren Moore, Contributor; J. P. O’Hare, Contributor; Laura Glass, Contributor; Anne Fiscarelli, Contributor; David Frank, Contributor; Michael St. John, Contributor – New York State Education Department, 2025
The New York State Education Department's Annual Report contains contributions from various program offices discussing initiatives for the 2024-2025 school year: (1) Advancing Equity and Excellence: A Transformative Year for the Office of Education Policy; (2) Elevating Equity and Excellence: A Year of Progress and Promise in Instructional…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Departments, State Programs, Educational Policy
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Murphy, Joseph – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive framework for capturing the complex concept the authors call school improvement. Design/methodology/approach: The author begins by anchoring that framework on an historical understanding of school improvement. The framework itself is then presented. Five dimensions are described: the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Construction Materials, Historical Interpretation, Educational History
Kinnaman, Maggie – Facilities Manager, 2013
Maggie Kinnaman is an APPA Emeritus Member, APPA Fellow, and Past APPA President. In this article she provides helpful tips for completing the APPA Facilities Performance Indicators (FPI) survey for 2013, which closed on December 16, 2013. She began by calling attention to some enhancements that have been added this past year, and encouraged…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Data Collection, Surveys, Facilities Management
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