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Tota, Pasqua Marina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This article discusses the involvement of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in transnational education policy-making, with particular reference to the global initiative Education for All (EFA). EFA is a policy process carried out by international governmental organisations (IGOs) with the main aim to achieve basic education for…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Nongovernmental Organizations, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Beckett, Lori; Wrigley, Terry – Improving Schools, 2014
This article presents a model of teacher research supported by academic partners to develop a better understanding of the barriers to education faced by young people growing up in poverty. It critiques politicians' demands for teachers to "close the gap" for ignoring the cumulative intergenerational effects of deprivation. The authors…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Barriers
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Lincove, Jane Arnold; Osborne, Cynthia; Dillon, Amanda; Mills, Nicholas – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Despite questions about validity and reliability, the use of value-added estimation methods has moved beyond academic research into state accountability systems for teachers, schools, and teacher preparation programs (TPPs). Prior studies of value-added measurement for TPPs test the validity of researcher-designed models and find that measuring…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Accountability, Politics of Education, School Statistics
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Noguera, Pedro A.; Wells, Lauren – Berkeley Review of Education, 2011
A substantial body of evidence has shown that past reforms have largely failed to improve schools in urban areas. After reviewing some of the major reforms that have been undertaken over the last 20 to 30 years the authors conclude that prior efforts failed to address the numerous ways in which poverty influences student academic outcomes and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement
Giroux, Henry A. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
"Education and the Crisis of Public Values" examines American society's shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade's growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Charter Schools, Democracy, Public School Teachers
Oztaskin, Ozlem Bektas; Kucukali, Ridvan – Online Submission, 2011
Schools are the significant places where new information and skills are obtained and practised. There are some problems in the social and educational development of organizational activities learned at schools. Change, share and distribution of knowledge, transfer of knowledge to students, fruitful and effective use of organizational aims,…
Descriptors: Educational Development, School Culture, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Collins, Donald R. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
This book outlines a methodology for viewing multiple generations of African Americans, specifically those who were called or called themselves Negro, Colored, Black, or African American (NCBAA). Within this framework, African Americans of varying ages describe their lives and educational experiences, allowing researchers to address a variety of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Grounded Theory, Black Studies
Ushomirsky, Natasha; Hall, Daria; Haycock, Kati – Education Trust, 2011
Whether through reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or using the Department of Education's waiver authority, federal policymakers must fix what No Child Left Behind got wrong, while salvaging what it got right: a focus on improving achievement and closing gaps for all groups of students. In this report, The Education Trust…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, Accountability
Kirylo, James D. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
The unfolding of Paulo Freire's philosophy, uniqueness, and the lens through which he viewed the world, which ultimately brought this gentle spirit of a man onto the world stage, began at a young age in his hometown of Recife, Brazil. Remarkably grounded in the wisdom of humility, yet gifted with a determined strength, deep insight, and perceptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Critical Theory, Educational Theories
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Mirabella, Roseanne M.; Balkun, Mary M. – Journal of General Education, 2011
Seton Hall University's new core curriculum includes a pair of Signature Courses and a third-year Signature Course developed within departments, two composition classes, a university life course, and five proficiencies. This article describes the process leading to the development of this new curriculum and provides advice on general education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Core Curriculum, General Education, Group Unity
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Gilbert, Rob – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
Successful curriculum development in any school subject requires a clear and established set of elements: agreed and widely appreciated goals; effective criteria for the selection of important knowledge content; and an explicit and well-integrated explanatory base for authentic problem-solving related to the subject goals. The article shows that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, National Curriculum
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Warren, Simon; Webb, Darren; Franklin, Anita; Bowers-Brown, Julian – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
This paper sets out the theoretical and methodological approach of a study of the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest in relation to the Trust schools initiative in England. Drawing on the discourse theoretical approach of Laclau and Mouffe the paper argues that the politics of consensus associated with New Labour reconfigures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Administration, Governance
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Blumenreich, Megan – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
Scholarly research is crucial to teaching and learning because it keeps the work of teacher educators and the teaching and learning in schools of education dynamic. Research fosters habits of critical reflection, encourages teacher educators to learn throughout their careers, and ensures that concepts in teacher education adapt to current…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Scholarship, Schools of Education, Teacher Educators
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Bekerman, Zvi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This article presents an in-depth analysis of two commemoration events in a first-grade classroom of a bilingual school in Israel. The two events presented--the commemorations of the Holocaust Day and the Memorial Day--derive from a longitudinal ethnographic study of integrated bilingual schools in Israel. The analysis of these events shows…
Descriptors: Grief, School Desegregation, Bilingual Schools, Ethnography
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Lingenfelter, Paul E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners share a sincere interest in improving the human condition. Academics may be tempted to fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully, but policy makers and practitioners want academics to tell them "what works" in order to find a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Action Research, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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