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Caralee Adams – Education Next, 2024
Involving students in policy debate is one of the most impactful academic interventions for secondary school students, according to a study, which between 2007 and 2017 followed about 3,500 students who were part of the Boston Debate League (BDL). The nonprofit supports debate teams in Boston Public Schools, which have a large concentration of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Debate, Public Policy, Clubs
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Donghyun Kang; TaeYoung Kang – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
South Korea implemented many-pronged educational reforms, notably to transition from heavy reliance on a high-stakes standardised test to more diversified assessment for university admissions. Nonetheless, this effort created another arena of competition towards meritocratic credentials--such as academic publications. The South Korean government,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Writing for Publication, Competition
Bailey J. Borman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this study, I explore a 20-plus-year process of how one research-intensive university in the United States integrated entrepreneurship into a university-wide initiative to develop an entrepreneurial culture. This research study focuses on the process of how entrepreneurial culture was developed through the implementation of three social…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Competition, Speech Skills, Ethnography
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Sofy Carayannopoulos; Vesna Damnjanovic – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: Case competitions are growing in popularity, in part because they are believed to build the skills and employment opportunities that higher education institutions are struggling to provide. We add to the nascent research on case competitions and answer calls for more exploration of career-related aspects of case competitions by exploring…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Student Participation, Competition, Skill Development