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Curry, Cynthia – National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2018
A digital educational material or technology is accessible when a learner with a disability "is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a learner without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational Technology, Students with Disabilities
Hohman, James M.; Slasinski, Chase – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2018
Michigan's public school districts are government entities that occasionally use private contractors to provide them with support services. The 2018 privatization survey found that 70.5 percent of Michigan's school districts -- 380 of the 539 districts in the state -- contract out for food, custodial or transportation services. This is a slight…
Descriptors: School Surveys, State Surveys, Privatization, Public Schools
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Souto-Otero, Manuel; Bialowolski, Piotr – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
The link between higher education and employment is central to the understanding of social stratification and social mobility. We use three theories to analyse the importance of education and credentials in recruitment decisions in European graduate labour markets: human capital (HC), network capital (NC) and reputational capital (RC) theory.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Employment Potential, Social Stratification, Social Mobility
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Jakopovic, Paula; Gomez-Johnson, Kelly – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
The current pool of highly qualified secondary mathematics teachers is woefully inadequate to address the needs of schools across the United States and other countries internationally. In STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas, providing quality instruction in a changing world requires continuous change and innovation as…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Communities of Practice, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Buckner, Elizabeth; Lumb, Punita; Jafarova, Zahra; Kang, Phoebe; Marroquin, Adriana; Zhang, You – Journal of International Students, 2021
This article examines how a sample of 62 higher education institutions in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom discuss international students in their official institutionalization strategies, focusing on how ideas of race and diversity are addressed. We find that institutional strategies connect international students to an abstract…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Race, Student Diversity
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Tange, Hanne; Jaeger, Kirsten – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
The paper presents the case of international higher education in Denmark from 1999 to recent political moves to limit international student recruitment. Building on concepts adopted from theories on nationalism, the authors trace the origins of an anti-internationalisation discourse to the 2000s. An analysis of documents produced by universities,…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Higher Education, Political Attitudes, Foreign Students
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Kim, Grace MyHyun; Cooc, North – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
The lack of Teachers of Color in the United States raises questions about their recruitment and retention and the responsiveness of schools to racial and linguistic diversity. This article examines these issues with a focus on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) teachers. We conducted a systematic review of the research on AAPI teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Self Concept, Minority Group Teachers
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King, Madeleine; Courtier, Maxine; Shaw, Chet; Anderson, Cynthia; Widdowson, John – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of the research was to discover the views of three groups of International students who were undertaking their Higher Education (HE) in a publicly-funded college, rather than a university setting. A comparative survey was undertaken by International students attending an American Community College, an Australian Technical and Further…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Student Experience, Student Recruitment
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Garrett, Arnell; Carter-Johnson, Frances D.; Natali, Susan M.; Schade, John D.; Holmes, Robert Max – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2021
The Polaris Project, a National Science Foundation-funded program at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, aims to comprehensively address minority participation in climate and Arctic science research. The project implemented design principles to recruit, motivate, and retain African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans or Alaskan Natives, and…
Descriptors: Climate, Scientific Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Minority Group Students
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Abdulai, Muhammed; Roosalu, Triin; Wagoner, Brady – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
Attracting the best students into universities is a policy agenda driven by the state and universities in Estonia and Denmark. While the policy of internationalization of higher education (IoHE) in Estonia and Denmark is well crafted in the policy and academic domains, the value additions international graduates add to the learning environments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Universities
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Carlson, Julianna; Ulmen, Kara – Child Trends, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted early care and education (ECE) programs across the country in many ways, including changes to enrollment, staffing, and daily operations. Many programs closed or transitioned to providing virtual learning and services in response to state guidance and mandates, especially in the early months of the pandemic. ECE…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Child Care, Preschool Education
Shapiro, Eve; Sidhu, Lara; Desvarieux, Heather – Children Now, 2021
In 2019, the California Future Health Workforce Commission released "Meeting the Demand for Health," a report that highlights recommendations for addressing California's workforce gaps: the state does not have enough of the right types of health workers in the right places to meet the needs of its growing, aging, and increasingly diverse…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations, Student Diversity, Labor Needs
Fiddiman, Bayliss; Partelow, Lisette – Center for American Progress, 2021
Every child deserves access to a quality education, and teaching is a core determinant of students' educational experience. Quality teaching is correlated with better learning outcomes, increased student achievement, and higher salaries and other benefits in adulthood. In this report, the Center for American Progress proposes a new federal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Quality, Access to Education, Outcomes of Education
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
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Susan Colby; Tracie McLemore Salinas – Journal of Faculty Development, 2021
Higher education is challenged by its lack of women leaders but perhaps more so by the lack of unique skills and perspectives that women tend to bring to leadership roles. As part of a comprehensive program portfolio, Appalachian State University has intentionally designed leadership development opportunities that support and empower women and…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Females, Promotion (Occupational), Higher Education
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