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Barkanic, Stephen – Business-Higher Education Forum, 2016
The United States faces a pressing national security and competitiveness challenge rooted in a shortage of a diverse, highly skilled workforce, particularly in vital cross-disciplinary fields such as data science and analytics, cybersecurity, and information technology. To address this challenge, Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) launched the…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Postsecondary Education, Labor Needs, Strategic Planning
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Bhattacharya, Somdatta; Deb, Swarupa; Nair, Hari; Shukla, Tanu; Yadav, Anupam – Higher Education for the Future, 2017
This article brings together critical perspectives on a broad range of issues that emerge from a reading of the National Policy on Education 2016. The issues vary from accountability to transdisciplinarity and from the marginalization of transgender people to value education. Such a complex task of critiquing this policy document cannot be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Criticism, Accountability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Donegan-Ritter, Mary; Kohler, Frank W. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2017
Preparing early childhood teachers for inclusion requires the blending of high quality developmentally appropriate practices with environmental adaptations and individualized instructional practices. This article describes how a field experience was redesigned to incorporate evidence based practices in teaming and collaboration, environment and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Inclusion, Evidence Based Practice
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Mainali, Bhesh Raj; Heck, André – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
A teacher-centered, examination-driven instructional approach emphasizing knowledge of facts and standard methods through drill-and-practice without use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is still dominant in Nepalese high schools. In this article, we present a classroom study in which the traditional instructional approach has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
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Sadeh, Shanna; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
In this article, we discuss conflict between law and science relative to the presumption in special education law that multidisciplinary teams and others identify the causes of problems giving rise to special education needs. First, we explain eligibility criteria, highlighting ambiguities therein and why criteria constitute a mandate for causal…
Descriptors: Ethics, Legal Problems, Guidelines, Educational Policy
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Guldberg, Karen; Parsons, Sarah; Porayska-Pomsta, Kaska; Keay-Bright, Wendy – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Experimental intervention studies constitute the current dominant research designs in the autism education field. Such designs are based on a "knowledge-transfer" model of evidence-based practice in which research is conducted by researchers, and is then "transferred" to practitioners to enable them to implement evidence-based…
Descriptors: Autism, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level, Technology Uses in Education
Mongkolrat, Raveema – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Thailand's education has not succeeded in meeting the Ministry of Education Thailand's goals for Thai language. The problem manifests in students' substandard Thai reading comprehension. Results of the Thailand's standardized national test showed that students, especially those with economical disadvantages, have performed poorly in Thai reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Case Studies, Control Groups, Evidence Based Practice
Morris, Carrie Elizabeth Eubank – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Traditionally, models of instructional leadership espouse data-informed decision making in response to student assessment outcomes as one of the core school leader behaviors. In recent years, rising expectations from accountability policies and related assessment practices have myriad implications for school districts, specifically in the areas of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Practices, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
Excelencia in Education, 2017
Through "Examples of Excelencia," "Excelencia" in Education recognizes programs that accelerate Latino student success in four categories: the Associate, Baccalaureate, Graduate levels as well as Community-Based Organizations (CBOs). Over the 12 years of Examples, "Excelencia" has recognized many evidence-based…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Hispanic American Students, Higher Education, Success
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2017
The National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) assists State Education Agencies, Local Education Agencies, State VR agencies, and VR service providers in implementing evidence-based and promising practices ensuring students with disabilities, including those with significant disabilities, graduate prepared for success in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Oakes, Jeannie; Maier, Anna; Daniel, Julia – National Education Policy Center, 2017
This brief examines the research on community schools, with two primary emphases. First, it explores whether the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opens the possibility of investing in well-designed community schools to meet the educational needs of low-achieving students in high-poverty schools. And second, it provides support to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Improvement, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Tollit, Michelle A.; Sawyer, Susan M.; Ratnapalan, Savithiri; Barnett, Tony – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2013
The purpose of this review is to examine and describe the current state of the evidence about the effectiveness of education support services for children and adolescents with a chronic health condition. To date, there appears to be little research detailing the types and effectiveness of models of educational support services for children and…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Chronic Illness
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Dinham, Stephen – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
There have been persistent concerns over teacher pre-service education for decades. The basic model of university or college coursework plus practice teaching has been found wanting. Despite attempts to rectify this, beginning teachers in Australia rate themselves as not being well prepared when they begin full-time teaching. This article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Farrell, Peter – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
Peter Farrell provides some interesting insight into the importance of teacher research and gives examples of his own research from his personal classroom experiences. The importance of disseminating findings from the classroom as professional development is discussed.
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Information Dissemination, Professional Development, Educational Practices
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Nicholas R. Fyfe – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: The paper focuses on current debates about police professionalism. It explores the nature and meaning of what has been termed "old" professionalism, which focuses on the role of the police as "professional crime fighters", and then assesses the extent to which there has been a transition to a "new"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Police Community Relationship, Crime Prevention
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