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Chad Williams Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As schools have been required to provide more and more services and as more and more people have left rural areas, school consolidation has become the answer. During the 1990s, it was ruled that the state of public school funding was unconstitutional. To solve this problem the state legislature passed Act 60 of 2003. Act 60 set the minimum…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Community Change, Economic Impact, Educational Improvement
Lauren C. Russell; Michael J. Andrews – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We exploit historical natural experiments to test whether universities increase economic mobility and equality. We use "runner-up'" counties that were strongly considered to become university sites but were not selected for as-good-as-random reasons as counterfactuals for university counties. University establishment causes greater…
Descriptors: Income, Labor Market, Economic Opportunities, Education Work Relationship
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Polat, Suat; Ozgul, Ibrahim; Bayram, Huseyin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
In this study, it was aimed to perform an in-depth examination of the opinions of social studies teachers on how citizenship education should be given. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. The study group of the research was formed with 17 social studies teachers working in different regions of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Citizenship Education
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Mohamed Ahmed Nur Sh Ali; Necla Sahin Firat – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2023
This paper examines challenges faced by novice school principals in Somalia using quantitative research. The International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP) survey was employed with a sample of 181 principals serving for a maximum of three years. Data were collected from primary and secondary schools in Mogadishu and the Puntland region.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Novices
Bunney, Kanoe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While increases in the number of K-12 teachers of color have been linked to decreases in achievement disparities between White students and their Black and Latino counterparts, a demographic divide continues to persist between teachers and students. Teach for America has made efforts to match teacher and student backgrounds in hopes of alleviating…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Disadvantaged, School Community Relationship, Professional Identity
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Ana Costa; Diana Moreira; Joana Casanova; Ângela Azevedo; Armanda Gonçalves; Íris Oliveira; Raquel Azevedo; Paulo C. Dias – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Because it is crucial for psychosocial adjustment and lifelong learning, education is the most relevant tool for ensuring inclusion and reducing inequalities. Due to its relationship with positive outcomes, such as life satisfaction, mental health, job performance or SES, academic achievement is a significant phenomenon that impacts students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, High School Students, Gender Differences
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José María Roa Venegas José María; Nelly Gromiria Lagos San Martín; Carmen Fernández Prados; Maritza Palma Luengo; Carmen Verónica López López – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: The present work is based on the theoretical model "Expectancy Value" of achievement motivation, and from a socio-cognitive perspective. Its objective is to describe achievement behavior in the classroom context of students from different cultural backgrounds. Method: A post-hoc study was carried out with 310 participants…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Academic Achievement
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Francisco Arturo Santelli; Jason A. Grissom – AERA Open, 2024
Research suggests that longer commute times may increase employee turnover probabilities by increasing stress and reducing job attachment and embeddedness. Using administrative data from a midsized urban school district, we test whether teachers with longer commute times are more likely to transfer schools or exit the district. Both descriptively…
Descriptors: Travel, Transportation, Time, Proximity
Riley Acton; Kalena E. Cortes; Camila Morales – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment decisions across race and socioeconomic status. Leveraging rich administrative data, we first document substantial differences in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, Proximity, School Location, Public Colleges
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2021
Charter schools are public schools established under charters, typically with state or local entities. In return for more flexibility and autonomy, charter schools must meet specific accountability standards. This briefing from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes: (1) the challenges charter schools face when attempting to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Educational Facilities, Accountability
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Hipolito, Mark Floricar G. – Research on Education and Media, 2022
This study was conducted to explore the experiences of novice elementary teachers assigned in far-flung schools in the time of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, anchoring on reflective practice using Kolb's (2015) experiential learning theory. As a strategy to understand the experiences of novice teachers, the researcher employed…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Education, Teaching Experience, COVID-19
Houlihan, Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative phenomenological study was used in this study to explore the reasoning behind a parent's decision to send their child to a suburban, predominantly white, private school in the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, where high-income families are highly prevalent. Ten parents of newly enrolled high school students were recruited to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Decision Making, Parent Attitudes
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Guyol, Genevieve G.; Chen, Futu; Boynton-Jarrett, Renée – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the association between neighborhood median income, child race/ethnicity, and parental perspectives and practical considerations regarding preschool program location. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of parents in Boston, Massachusetts planning to enroll in preschool (N = 1171). Questions measured parental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parents, School Location, Neighborhoods
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Ghirmai, Daniel Jambo; Hongde, Lei – South African Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of the study reported on here was to explore the effects of principals' distributed leadership (DL) practices on learners' learning achievement as mediated by teachers' commitment. In the study we employed survey data with a sample size of 603 learners from 8 technical and vocational education training schools in Eritrea. The proposed…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Teacher Motivation
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Lee, Se Woong; Mao, Xinyi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
School principals play an invaluable role in schools', teachers', and students' success; therefore, it is of particular importance that we learn, through empirical research, about the factors related to recruiting and selecting school principals. This study critically reviewed 64 empirical literature studies that were published in the United…
Descriptors: Principals, Recruitment, Personnel Selection, Literature Reviews
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