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Turanli, Munevver; Taspinar Cengiz, Dicle; Turanli, Rona; Akdal, Serem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study investigates the effects of women's education and labor force ratio on the level of development in countries. We use a complete dataset covering 44 countries over the period 1990-2010. It comprises the following: education index, the ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education, income per capita, human development index,…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Labor Force, Regression (Statistics), Factor Analysis
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Tesar, Marek – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Government ideologies seek to produce ideal childhoods within their political and ideological frameworks. Using the analysis of a children's magazine in kindergartens in socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, this paper argues that children's literature produces political and ideologically charged childhood subjectivities. Tensions…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries, Ideology, Children
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Swain, Shurlee – American Indian Quarterly, 2013
In 1838 a child known as Mathinna was removed from the settlement for the remnant of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people on Flinders Island and taken to Hobart to live in the house of the lieutenant governor. Sir John and Lady Franklin, the historical record recounts, were impressed by her intelligence and wanted to bring her up as a companion to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Adoption, Children
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Zachary, Susan F. – English in Texas, 2015
Incorporating the arts into the classroom through the study of poetry and writing can improve literacy with the connection to the lyrical movement of dance, music, and art. Through the arts, teachers can guide students in exploring figurative language, tone, rhythm, and imagery as it pertains to the arts and its relationship to the voice and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Poetry, Visual Arts, Theater Arts
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Simic-Muller, Ksenija – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Ratio and proportional reasoning tasks abound that have connections to real-world situations. Examples in this article demonstrate how textbook tasks can easily be transformed into authentic real-world problems that shed light on issues of equity and fairness, such as population growth and crime rates. A few ideas are presented on how teachers can…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Relevance (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks
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Jónsdóttir, Arna H.; Coleman, Marianne – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
In this article, we explore the reality of Icelandic preschool teachers who are, as in most other countries, predominantly female. The gendered nature of the role and the current identity adopted by preschool teachers appear to impact on their perceived status and professionalism. In this process, stakeholders in early childhood education (ECE),…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Role
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Neumann, Richard – Social Studies, 2014
This article reports on an investigation to explore the possibility that ideology might be expressed in the treatment of corporate influence on federal government by social studies textbooks. Two textbooks were examined in the study--United States history and American government. Corporate influence involves activities that affect election and…
Descriptors: High School Students, History Instruction, Content Analysis, Textbooks
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Krzykowski, Linda; Kinser, Kevin – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
With the cost of higher education steadily increasing, many people are wondering what, if anything, students are learning on college campuses. In this environment, colleges are facing pressure to make information about what their students learn available to a range of stakeholders, including students and their parents, policymakers, and the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Disclosure
Research For Action, 2014
Charter school authorization, accountability, and funding will be key features of education policy debates in Pennsylvania over the next several months. One proposed policy, Senate Bill 1085, would amend significant aspects of the state's charter school law, including the system for charter school approval, specific criteria for evaluating…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Higher Education, State Legislation, Enrollment
Marchitello, Max – Center for American Progress, 2014
Beginning in 2010, more than 40 states adopted the Common Core State Standards. In the years immediately following their adoption, educators, parents, and policymakers familiar with the standards strongly supported them. Both Republicans and Democrats heralded the Common Core as one of the most promising school reforms in decades. Fast forward to…
Descriptors: Politics, Common Core State Standards, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Data Quality Campaign, 2014
The Data Quality Campaign and the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education prepared this document to help school board members respond to questions about education data, explain its importance to improving school and student performance, and understand how boards can help ensure student privacy.
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Data, Educational Improvement, Student Improvement
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Stonkuviene, Irena – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The article focuses on the research on the most massive children's organisation of the 20th century, i.e., Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, and its activities. The period of soviet pedagogy has been most actively investigated by Russian scientists, who have analysed its various phenomena, including pioneer activities, not only from…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Social Change
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Yemini, Miri; Dvir, Yuval – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This study comprises a comprehensive attempt to reveal the power relations and conflicting interests within the local-global nexus of the Israeli public education system. The perceptions of different stakeholders were explored, in regard to the implementation of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program as an example of a globally oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Power Structure, Advanced Placement Programs
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Pinto, Laura Elizabeth; Blue, Levon Ellen – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Globally, neoliberal education policy touts youth entrepreneurship education as a solution for staggering youth unemployment, a means to bolster economically depressed regions, and solution to the ill-defined changing marketplace. Many jurisdictions have emphasized a need for K-12 entrepreneurial education for the general population, and targeted…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Neoliberalism, Canada Natives, Discourse Analysis
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Daneels, Mary Ellen – Social Education, 2016
The College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards published by the National Council for the Social Studies advocates the need for students not just to acquire and produce knowledge, but also to live a life of active engagement in the workings of our democracy. Dimension Four of the C3 Framework articulates this…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Studies, State Standards, Democracy
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