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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"educational policies"”.
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IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND STRUCTURES ON STUDENTS’ FUTURE OUTCOMES
… examines two key aspects of higher education policies and their impact on students’ outcomes. The first chapter investigates the labor market implications of grade inflation induced by Pass/Fail grading reforms at a top-ranking university in Singapore. By employing a Difference-in-Regression …
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Educational *Policies and Practices in Lived Context: Puerto Ricans Schooled in Chicago
… research presents a glimpse of the complexity of educational polices within a lived context by providing a brief history of educational policies that speak to the reception and value of Latinos in the United States (US), coupled with an examination of schooling experiences of Puerto Ricans in …
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The mediatization of educational policies in Chile: discourses and governance in a neoliberal education field
… movement. I have studied the mediatization of educational policies in Chile, using Critical Discourse Analysis as a qualitative research method. I have analyzed editorials and columns published by the two most influential newspapers in Chile to identify major discourses about education in a …
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A Community Arts Advocacy Group and Its Educational *Policies, Actions and Activities: A Case Study
The direct significance to arts educators is in how groups like ACI can create connections within a community between (a) arts groups; (b) arts groups and schools; and, (c) between the community, arts groups and the schools. ACI also showed an ability to secure unique sources of funding for arts …
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The Liberal education bills: conflict and compromise in religious issues and Liberal Party educational policies 1906-1908
This study follows the religious and educational issues which formed the background to the Education Bills of the Liberal Government in the period 1906-08. The role of the churches and their place in society in the 19th and early 20th Centuries is outlined. The problems of educational provision and …
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Evaluation of the educational policies of the Sudan, 1972-1992 : impact and implications on educational development in the Southern Sudan
… defined Sudanese society. The framework of educational policies showed a consistent trend towards the building of an Arab-Islamic society. The government's determination to uphold this trend was showed by the persistent policy of centralisation of education policy development. There was in …
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Education in the National Interest
… examination of the democratic viability of educational policy devoted to serving "national interests." It begins with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation at Risk, which prescribed …
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Fee-Free Educational Policy for Social Development: Examining the Conditions and the Social Benefits of Cost Elimination at the Upper-Secondary Level in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and sufficient for adopting cost-elimination policies, commonly known as fee-free educational policies, at the upper-secondary level, and the social benefits of these policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Some conclusions are reached subject to a review of the theoretical and empirical …
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An analysis of the nature and function of the education policies at colleges of education in the National States in South Africa
… purpose of this study was to investigate how the educational policies formulated by the Department of Education and Training as well as the Departments cf Education and Culture, influence the functioning of the colleges of education in the National States in South Africa. It was also to determine …
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The art of self-reflection : adult learners' encounters with portfolio-based assessment
In adopting educational policies that promote portfolio assessment, educational theorists and practitioners have argued that portfolios provide a framework within classrooms where self-regulated learning processes and higher order thinking skills can be nurtured. However, academic research in the …
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Student persistence in STEM fields: school structures and student choices in Finland, Sweden and the United States
… that different structures (including contrasting policies of stratification and differentiation, specialist magnet schools and enrichment programmes) have on students’ intentions to persist in STEM fields. This study supports the theory that educational policies mediate student persistence both …
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
Although the policies and practices of special education are openly constructed around a premise of mobility and opportunity, students from low income backgrounds (‘at risk’ youth) are twice as likely to be labeled “special.” Moreover, of all the special educational categories, learning …
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Perspectives of a Twitter public on disciplinary practices in a moment of classroom conflict
… viral mediated school disciplinary incident and policies related to school discipline in South Africa. The study found that online articulations reflected the gaps, ambiguities, and clashes within educational policies related to school discipline, and shows how multi-disciplinary approaches to …
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A comissão europeia e as políticas europeias de educação superior: uma análise a partir do Processo de Bolonha e do Método Aberto de Coordenação
… of the European Commission in the European policies in higher education and to understand if there has been an increase in this participation in comparison to the participation of the States. Besides the research in the existing literature, this paper used documents produced by the European …
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On the front lines in the classroom: The careers of white and American Indian women teachers at the Carlisle Indian school, 1875-1933
… the ways teachers responded to federal Indian educational policies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that were designed to assimilate Native Americans into modern America. These federal policies attempted to solve ‘the Indian problem’ by creating a curriculum that was crafted …
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Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980
… Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai, which were educational institutions in Samoa, an island in the Pacific. Establishing these schools for students with intellectual and physical disabilities, excluded from attending formal schools based on the misconception that they were "uneducable". In this …
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Significados sobre calidad educativa en los profesores de educación superior
ABSTRACT This research addresses the meanings of educational quality from the perspective of a group of university professors, from the Vigotskyan sociocultural approach. Here, the professor is prioritized as a research subject, understanding how the university professor in Colombia defines …
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RACIAL AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH THE EYES OF PUBLIC-SCHOOL EDUCATORS
… as it relates to their classroom practice and educational policies. The focus of this research (1) describes and analyzes my personal experiences through the use of qualitative approaches, (2) shares the experiences and perceptions of three public-school educators, and (3) advocate for …
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