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Schrecker, Ellen – Thought & Action, 2010
The enormous changes that took place on American campuses during the 1960s not only opened those campuses to new constituencies and new ideas, but also created a powerful conservative movement that sought to reverse those changes. Along with the rising cost of higher education, the right's campaign against the academic reforms of the sixties has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Political Attitudes, Public Support
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Xin, Tong; Yihui, Su – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
This article uses information from a 2009 survey of the employment circumstances of female college students from Beijing's higher education institutions to analyze the differences among college students in the process of job seeking. Such divisions are manifested in terms of gender, household registration, human resources, specializations, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Employment, Gender Discrimination
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Berry, Christopher; Wysong, Charles – Education Next, 2010
While school-finance lawsuits have attracted significant attention in the legal community and generated numerous state-specific case studies, nationwide analyses of the effects of school-finance judgments (SFJs) have been relatively few. This small pool of studies has produced some common conclusions, namely, that such judgments reduce funding…
Descriptors: Finance Reform, Educational Finance, School Districts, Court Litigation
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Yoon, Ee-Seul; Gulson, Kalervo N. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
This paper examines the links between language, social difference and political domination in the practices of parental school choice at the heart of a global city, Vancouver. Vancouver is a highly diverse city, especially in terms of language. Its inner city is replete with multiple languages whose exchange values are not equal. In this context,…
Descriptors: Middle Class, School Choice, Multilingualism, Social Differences
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Zhang, Shaoan – Action in Teacher Education, 2010
This article explores secondary preservice teachers' attitudes toward the use of teacher self-disclosure as a tool for citizenship education. Based on the notion that teacher self-disclosure may function as citizenship curriculum, this study addressed critical issues of teachers' sharing their knowledge about religions (including their own) and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Citizenship Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Kohli, Hermeet K.; Kohli, Amarpreet S.; Huber, Ruth; Faul, Anna C. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2010
Twofold purpose of this study was to develop a framework to understand cultural competence in graduating social work students, and test that framework for appropriateness and predictability using multivariate statistics. Scale and predictor variables were collected using an online instrument from a nationwide convenience sample of graduating…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, Predictor Variables, Social Work, College Graduates
Harbour, Edwanike C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
After thirty years of racial/ethnic identity development (R/EID) studies, research has shown little other than how racial identity is a reflection of one's political affiliation with a racial group. Recent research has shown that R/EID of college students affects psychological well-being (Kwan & Sodowsky, 1997; Yoo & Lee, 2005). However, Black…
Descriptors: Political Affiliation, College Students, Student Attitudes, Acculturation
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Lichtman, Allan – Social Education, 2008
The winds of political change are blowing through America in 2008 and will sweep the party in power from the White House next November. That is the verdict of the Keys to the White House, a prediction system that the author developed in collaboration with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, founder of the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory…
Descriptors: Elections, Prediction, Political Science, Presidents
Dasgupta, Shib Shankar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the adoption and implementation mechanism of the national e-Governance plan in the regional state of West Bengal in India. The questions that this dissertation seek to illuminate are (i) the various potentials and challenges in integrating the ordinary citizens in the implementation of the national e-Governance plan in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Governance, Internet
Howell, William G.; Henderson, Michael – Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 2010
Merit pay initiatives transparently alter the teaching profession and goings-on within classrooms, and thereby promise to stoke the self-interests of the two most prominent stakeholders in public education: teachers and parents. This memo summarizes the authors' ongoing efforts to empirically evaluate the extent to which public debates about merit…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Public Education, Governance, Educational Policy
Kniffin, Kevin M. – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2010
After nearly four decades of campaigning, faculty and academic staff union members across the University of Wisconsin (UW) System won the right to bargain collectively in June 2009 when the Governor signed legislation that modified state labor law. In this paper, I present historical and interdisciplinary analyses of the organizational structures…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Unions, State Government, Union Members
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Agrawal, Shantanu; Everett, Worth W.; Sharma, Sonali – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
Purpose: This study examined the impact of medical education on students' views of substance abuse treatment, public policy options and training. Method: A longitudinal survey was conducted on a single-class cohort of 101 students in a major American, urban medical school. The survey was administered in the Spring semesters of the first to third…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Addiction
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Joyce, Helen M. – Social Education, 2008
Given the low turnout among younger voters, it is important to seek innovative ways of engaging students in the electoral process, and a presidential year like this one offers exciting opportunities for doing so. In this article, the author describes her experiences with a schoolwide project designed by herself and colleagues that simulates the…
Descriptors: Elections, Political Campaigns, Simulation, Social Studies
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Talahongva, Patty – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2008
For the first time, the race to the White House included a woman and a man of African American heritage. U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both campaigned intensely to claim the Democratic nomination. While this may strike many Americans as historic, for some students attending tribal colleges, the election is still just that, the…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, Leadership, Presidents, Elections
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Park, Julie J. – Research in Higher Education, 2009
This paper examines student attitudes towards affirmative action over 4 years of college. Asian American and Latino/a students were more likely than White students to disagree strongly or somewhat with abolishing affirmative action after 4 years of college. A student's attitude towards the policy as a first-year student, peer group influence, and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Political Attitudes, Peer Groups, Affirmative Action
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