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Fubara, Edward I.; Gardner, Matthew T.; Wolff, Jordan S. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
For a variety of reasons many Christian higher education institutions struggle to embrace issues of diversity. This paper explores some of the challenges facing Christian higher education institutions when it comes to embracing diversity, particularly in the area of employment. It begins with a discussion of basic diversity/diversity management…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Cultural Pluralism
Iowa Department of Education, 2013
This document provides guidelines for developing competency-based pathways in Iowa districts and schools and outlines waiver requirements and procedures. Competency-based pathways provide ways to validate learning of standards that occurs outside the structure of the traditional school and offer flexibility for schools to engage students in…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Guidelines, State Policy, State Departments of Education
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Simon, Catherine A. – London Review of Education, 2013
New Labour's extended schools initiative added to existing models of community schooling. The paper identifies the key principles behind extended schooling, making comparisons with historical models and contemporary trends in community education. Part one examines New Labour's use of extended schools to deliver their social policy agenda. Part two…
Descriptors: Community Education, Foreign Countries, Models, Public Policy
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Locke, Terry; Alcorn, Noeline; O'Neill, John – Educational Action Research, 2013
This article begins by raising issues around the way in which ethical approval for research is managed in university settings, where committees often base their assumptions on a principlist approach making a number of assumptions that we consider to be contestable, such as a neat separation between researcher and researched. However, collaborative…
Descriptors: Action Research, Ethics, Researchers, Research Administration
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Druzhilov, S. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
The phenomenon of harassment in Russian universities creates an environment that can be both threatening to the individual and a source of poor performance by the work group. Policies need to be developed to deal with this destructive form of behavior. [This article was translated by Kim Braithwaite.]
Descriptors: Higher Education, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Sexual Harassment
Kaiser, Harvey H. – Trusteeship, 2012
Dormitories, student centers, lecture halls, laboratories, athletic facilities, quads--just try to imagine a residential campus without them. Impossible. They are among its most important assets. As fiduciaries, boards must ensure that those assets are protected and enhanced over time. But how to do so effectively when growing internal and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governing Boards, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility
Jenkins, Judy; Pfeifer, R. Scott – Principal Leadership, 2012
Today's reform landscape transcends instructional leadership and data-based decision-making skills. This is not to say that those behaviors are not essential to a principal's success, but they no longer suffice. Principals do not need to be curriculum experts, but they do need to lead their schools with full knowledge of the Common Core State…
Descriptors: Expertise, State Standards, Instructional Leadership, Principals
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Stewart, Trevor Thomas – English Education, 2012
In this article, I present six English teachers' perceptions of the dialogue used by principals and superintendents to communicate policy mandates in their schools. I wanted to learn about the ways in which the discourse employed by these two kinds of policymakers influenced English teachers' experiences as professionals and how these policies and…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Organizational Culture
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Milligan, Julie; Neal, Gwen; Singleton, Jacques – Education, 2012
Since the initiation of PL 94-142 enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, special education has been mandated, funded and regulated by the federal government. There have been both benefits and drawbacks to this initiative. In positive terms and most importantly, children who require different educational services are identified, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Gifted, Administrative Principles, Administrator Education
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Dance, S. Dallas – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The members of the Large Countywide and Suburban District Consortium--a group of large, highly diverse, and successful districts across the country--have made great strides in achieving college and career readiness for all students. While they are succeeding, the consortium proposes that more could be done to accomplish their objectives through…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Accountability, Program Proposals, Federal Programs
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Pennington, Todd R.; Prusak, Keven A.; Wilkinson, Carol – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2014
"What we have is a systemic failure--one that involves the relationship of physical education programs in public schools with teacher preparation in higher education." (Siedentop & Locke, 1997). This assessment led Prusak, Pennington, Vincent-Graser, Beighle, and Morgan (2010) to an examination of a school district that seemed to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Public Schools, Physical Education Teachers, Qualitative Research
Myung, Jeannie; Martinez, Krissia – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2013
Across the country, districts are committing to observing, assessing, and giving feedback to teachers multiple times a year. Currently, school systems are dedicating an enormous amount of effort to accumulating data on teachers, but the field still has a lot to learn about how best to use data to support the improvement of teaching. This brief,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Change Strategies, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Evaluation
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Patterson, Shawna M. – About Campus, 2013
In this article, the author provides a model that juxtaposes leadership, critical theory, and learning to address the needs of educators, the organization, and students. This model provides educators with a foundational approach to nurture students' critical consciousness through self-awareness and to actualize transformational change within their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Subcultures, Cultural Pluralism, Change Strategies
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Schlosser, Melanie – College & Research Libraries, 2011
This paper provides background on planning and organizational culture change in libraries and describes a grassroots planning process taking place at the Ohio State University Libraries. Now in its third phase, the process aims to create a long-term plan for the organization while fostering a more collaborative, innovative culture.
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Library Development, Strategic Planning, Organizational Culture
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NJ1), 2011
Performance funding--the linking of allocation of resources to accomplishment of certain desired outcomes--is an idea that is once again finding favor with policymakers. It has intuitive appeal; what's not to like about paying for results? While it is a notion that makes common sense to most decisionmakers, it is an idea with a very checkered…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Design, Administrative Principles, Financial Support
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