The purpose of this study was to explore administrators' and teachers' experiences and perceptions of how restorative practice strategies impact the execution of school discipline in an urban middle school. This study included a review of data collected from interviews with middle school administrators and teachers in a large school district. A…

Since its introduction in 2006, the flipped classroom model has notably impacted grade 12 science education in South Africa, offering a shift from traditional teaching methods. This phenomenological qualitative study examines the challenges and opportunities of the flipped classroom model in crisis-prone educational settings through…

Purpose: This study investigates the impact of digital transformation on employee mindsets within Oman's higher education sector. It examines how employees perceive and adapt to integrating digital technologies in teaching, learning, and administrative processes. The research aims to identify factors influencing employee receptiveness and…

With a more demanding post COVID-19 student, a surge in teaching requirement changes is taking place. Teachers are confronted with students who have access to knowledge and have undergone severe psychological lock-down consequences. This self-reporting quantitative study is conducted with 476 consenting anonymous students and their 32 respective…

The Albanian language until it became a written and a spoken language to all of the Albanians, passed through a long and a difficult path. If you go back in time, you see how many efforts were made to preserve Albanian language and identity. Albanian intellectuals and patriots got their visionary aim of its preservation at all costs. Albanian…

This article explores the practice of virtual learning in New Zealand schools. It reports on a study that examined how virtual learning has evolved over the last 30 years and how it is currently experienced by students and teachers, and makes recommendations for the future. Research participants were teaching principals selected from eight small…

Educator retention is closely connected to working conditions, including educators' working environment, compensation and benefits, and opportunities for professional development. For example, access to classroom resources impacts teacher morale and engagement and is important for establishing a working environment conducive to learning.…

The government spends billions on our behalf. How do we want this money to be spent? This report reviews a range of policies and asks the fundamental question which should be asked of every policy: Does it deliver value for money? In other words, what benefit does it deliver to people relative to its net cost to the government. This benefit/cost…

The Remediation report is in response to Ohio Revised Code section 3345.061 (H), which requires the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW), to issue a report recommending policies and strategies for reducing the need for academic remediation and developmental courses at state…

There has never been a more urgent moment to invest in educator preparation, success, and retention in Oregon. The 2024 Educator Equity Report is the ninth report published by Oregon's state education agencies since 2015 on educator workforce diversification efforts in Oregon. This report is produced by the Educator Advancement Council (EAC) in…

Students' gains from Pre-K converge with similar students who did not attend Pre-K in elementary school. One theory for convergence is that students who attend Pre-K enter kindergarten classrooms that are skill heterogeneous, and these students are positioned near the top of the classroom skill distribution. Kindergarten teachers, however, focus…

In executing purposeful actions, adults select sufficient and necessary limbs. But infants often move goal-irrelevant limbs, suggesting a developmental process of motor specialization. Two experiments with 9- and 12-month-olds revealed gradual decreases in extraneous movements in non-acting limbs during unimanual actions. In Experiment 1,…

The legacy of deindustrialization and associated underemployment continues to plague many former industrial communities. In these spaces, universities serve as anchors providing gateways for individual economic empowerment, and as "brain centers" charged with generating solutions for societal problems. This paper explores the development…

This concluding chapter discusses the main challenges currently facing institutional research at small- and medium-sized colleges and describes how the field may evolve.

The University of North Dakota (UND) Libraries have developed a multi-award winning Customer Service Program (CSP) involving longitudinal assessment and continuous improvement. The CSP consists of iterative training modules; constant reinforcement of Customer Service Principles with multiple communication strategies and tools, and incentives that…