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Mohd Nor, Mohd Roslan; Senin, Nurhanisah; Mohd Khambali Hambali, Khadijah; Ab Halim, Asyiqin – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper attempts to explore the transformations taken by madrasah, especially in preparing students both in religious and academic field. Besides, this paper aims to demonstrate measures taken by madrasah in instilling the religious and racial cohesion far from conservatism and extremism that has always been labeled to their students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Religious Education, Institutional Survival
Carr, Chad R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Columbus Preparatory Academy (CPA) was a school in Academic Emergency and in jeopardy of being closed in 2007. In 2016, CPA was ranked "Excellent with Distinction" and has been the top-ranked academic school for five consecutive years. There have been many "how-to" books written about how to turn schools around, but few…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Charter Schools, Institutional Survival, School Turnaround
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Nespor, Jan; Voithofer, Rick – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: Virtual schools--free, state-funded, credit-awarding elementary and secondary schools offering curricula and programs exclusively online--are a rapidly expanding sector of U.S. education. Some of the largest of these schools have low graduation rates and receive "failing" rankings on state accountability metrics. They…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Online Courses, Accountability, School Effectiveness
Glickman, Carl – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
The 50th anniversary of the creation of "Foxfire" magazine and the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center merits the question of how that innovative program of teaching and learning influences education today. Despite its troubled history, the program continues to exist and won the 2015 Georgia Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Periodicals, Educational Practices, Intellectual History
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Zeliff, Nancy; Williams, Ruthann – Journal of Applied Research for Business Instruction, 2016
The closing of smaller enrollment programs at public universities in recent years has led to the closure of business teacher education programs. At the same time, existing business teacher education programs are experiencing low enrollments. To use faculty resources efficiently at four state universities in Missouri, required business education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Online Courses, Educational Cooperation, Institutional Survival
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Tarabini, Aina; Curran, Marta; Fontdevila, Clara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article aims to revisit the relationship between school-level variables and students' educational opportunities through the lens of institutional habitus. This approach is particularly well suited to explore the notion of school culture because it brings to the forefront the impact of social context, avoiding some of the limitations typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Context Effect, Secondary Schools