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Hanna, Mark; Sanders, Karen – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2012
A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Public Officials, Age Differences, Journalism
Coleman, Mary Ruth; Shah-Coltrane, Sneha – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2015
In 1973, Jim Gallagher convened an interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars and practitioners to address the critical issue of underrepresentation of minority children within gifted education. Underrepresentation of culturally different children stems from a complex combination of societal, economic and political, and personal factors. J. J.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Educational Environment
Diko, Nolutho; Bantwini, Bongani D. – Perspectives in Education, 2013
Researchers are guided by their ideological and ethical viewpoints when conducting research. Doing research for government challenges them to confront these ideals head-on. This article explores the uncertain terrain researchers sometimes have to negotiate when conducting research for government, and discusses relations between researchers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Researchers, Public Officials
Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The content for the school science curriculum has always been an interplay or contest between the interests of a number of stakeholders, who have an interest in establishing it at a new level of schooling or in changing its current form. For most of its history, the interplay was dominated by the interests of academic scientists, but in the 1980s…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Stakeholders
Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X. – Center for American Progress, 2013
Mayoral control and accountability is one of very few major education reforms that aim at governance coherence in this nation's highly fragmented urban school systems. A primary feature of mayoral governance is that it holds the office of the mayor accountable for school performance. As an institutional redesign, mayoral governance integrates…
Descriptors: City Government, Public Officials, Governance, Public Schools
Fernandes Nogueira, Jaana Flavia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Historically, higher education has played an important role in the development of societies. Indeed, this has been the case in both Argentina and Brazil. The overall goal of this dissertation is to examine the historical development and the current situation of higher education in Argentina and Brazil. In relation to history, it discusses the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
Scott, Janelle; Jabbar, Huriya – Educational Policy, 2014
The rise in the influence of and spending by educational philanthropists and foundations over the past two decades, especially in the area of market-based reforms, such as charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay, is evident across the United States. Largely due to philanthropic investments, relatively new educational intermediary organizations…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Philanthropic Foundations, Politics of Education, School Choice
Reeves, Jenny; Drew, Valerie – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This paper offers a new way of exploring some of the complexities inherent in attempts by policy makers and others to promote educational change. The focus of this study is on the current drive in education policy to alter the basis of teacher professionalism through the application of principles of lifelong learning to teachers' professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Officials, Educational Change
Hochbein, Craig – Journal of Educational Change, 2011
Educators, researchers, politicians, and the media have committed considerable time, attention, and effort to chronically low-performing schools. Although many have chided the schools for their unacceptable performance or designed strategies to improve them, few have sought to understand how these schools became chronically low-performing in the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Academic Achievement, Researchers, School Effectiveness
Niederdeppe, Jeff; Shapiro, Michael A.; Porticella, Norman – Human Communication Research, 2011
Informed by theory and research on attributions and narrative persuasion, we compared the effectiveness of narrative and nonnarrative messages in changing attributions of responsibility for causes and solutions related to obesity in the United States. We randomly assigned 500 adults to view one of three messages (narrative, evidence, and a hybrid…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Obesity, Responsibility, Public Officials
Coles, Emma; Watt, Celia; Freeman, Ruth – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To use a qualitative exploration to evaluate whether "Something to Smile About" (STSA), an oral health intervention, had increased the oral health capacity of staff working with homeless people. Setting: A National Health Service board area in Scotland. Method: A purposive sample of 14 staff members from STSA-participating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Dental Health, Intervention
Deggs, David M.; Miller, Michael T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
A level of consistency between community college leaders and community leaders is necessary to demonstrate behaviors, actions, and beliefs that shape, represent, and support expected community values. Likewise, communities, which are collectives of suborganizations, play an important role in aiding individual development, especially related to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Leaders, Educational Attitudes, Public Officials
Hadebe, Lillie Beth; Mpofu, John – African Educational Research Journal, 2013
The major problems facing urban residents particularly women are poverty, poor food security, growing urban population, hunger and lack of formal employment. Due to lack of employment, the majority of women in urban centres are involved in urban agriculture. The major focus of this research was to establish to what extent women are being empowered…
Descriptors: Food, Safety, Urban Areas, Females
Ark, Tom Vander – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2013
It is time to rethink charter school authorization. There are approximately 5,000 charter schools in the United States (about 5 percent of schools) and a push from parents and the Department of Education for more. Given that many charters authorized during the initial wave of charter applications have not proven themselves to be any better than…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Community Support
Hill, Robert – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
The aim of the research was to investigate the most effective ways for small rural primary schools to work together in order to improve provision and raise standards. The project sought to examine the circumstances and context of small rural schools in Lincolnshire and evaluate their different leadership models (such as collaborations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Schools, Rural Schools, Cooperation