News tagged with education policy
Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance
The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Acceptance is protection: How can parents support gender nonconforming and transgender children?
How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist ...
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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Policy reforms 'demoralizing' teaching profession, scholar argues
A provocative new article in the American Journal of Education argues that many teachers in the age of rigid curricula, high-stakes testing, and reduced classroom autonomy are finding it difficult to access the "moral reward ...
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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In-state tuition for undocumented students not a partisan issue, study finds
Political ideology and partisanship don't play much of a role in whether a state considers extending in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants, according to a new study in the American Journal of Education.
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Jul 25, 2011 |
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Value of test-driven education questioned by UB researcher
Research by Jaekyung Lee, PhD, professor of counseling, school and educational psychology at the University at Buffalo, is helping to expose failures in America's controversial test-driven educational policies.
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Jul 12, 2011 |
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Study suggests financial aid enhances college success among the most unlikely graduates
Results from an ongoing random assignment study of a private grant program in Wisconsin indicate that low-income students who receive Pell Grants and are unlikely to finish college get a sizeable boost in college persistence ...
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Jul 08, 2011 |
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Americans' views of college access varied, often inflated
A study by Indiana University sociologists found that many Americans had inflated views of minority students' opportunities to attend college, yet a large contingent - around 43 percent of people surveyed - believed that ...
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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'Taking children seriously'Ж A new report on the EU childhood education for sustainable development
Small children are capable of engaging in issues concerning sustainable development. Their interests and rights must be better safeguarded in rules and policy decisions that concern the education of the youngest ...
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Jan 11, 2011 |
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Exclusions and power structures in the wake of an open higher education system
In recent decades, Swedish universities and university colleges have become the target of a range of reforms under the banner of openness and flexibility. But a thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that the good ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Using complex systems approach to study educational policy
Educational policy is controversial: positions on achievement gaps, troubled schools and class size are emotionally charged, and research studies often come to very different conclusions.
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Oct 08, 2010 |
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Large national study strongly links educational leadership to student achievement
A new study released today, the largest of its kind, offers important new evidence affirming the strong connection between what school leaders do and student achievement -- and sheds new light on what effective leadership ...
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Jul 21, 2010 |
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Are school wellness policies stuck in the Ice Age?
The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, 2004, requires that all school districts have a Wellness Policy if they participate in federal school meal programs. As part of the Wellness Policy, schools are mandated to ...
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Florida's Class-Size Reduction Mandate Did Not Improve Student Achievement: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that Florida's 2002 constitutional amendment mandating a reduction in the size of classes in school districts throughout the state had no discernible impact upon student achievement, either ...
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May 14, 2010 |
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A report card on DFID: The Lancet calls for a post-election independent review to protect its successes and fix its prob
The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet focuses on global health within the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID)—its mixed successes and failures to date, the challenges it faces with the possib ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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A computer per student leads to higher performance than traditional classroom settings
A dozen years into the "1 to 1" computing movement's push to pair every schoolchild and teacher with a laptop, studies show the students in these programs outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms, according to researchers.
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Jan 21, 2010 |
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