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Akin-Sabuncu, Sibel – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This qualitative study examines teacher educators' articulations about their beliefs and motivations for preparing the next generation of teachers. The study also explores how teacher educators conceptualise their roles as the teachers of prospective teachers. Employing case study design, the participants included 10 teacher educators who serve at…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Educators, Social Change, Teacher Education Programs
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Ruutiainen, Ville; Alasuutari, Maarit; Karila, Kirsti – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
In accordance with the Nordic welfare model, the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has traditionally been based on public provision and the idea of universalism. However, over the last twenty years the ECEC system has undergone market-oriented reforms. As a result, the share of private for-profit ECEC provision has grown…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Petrilli, Michael J. – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
As noted by many historians, the modern tale of American education is one of a pendulum swinging between concerns about excellence and those about equity. In many matters of policy and practice, excellence and equity are in tension, if not actual conflict. It can be assumed that progressives will always take the "equity" side. So if…
Descriptors: Excellence in Education, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Keddie, Amanda; Jacobs, Charlotte; Nelson, Joseph Derrick – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
Many elite schools proclaim a commitment to racial and other aspects of student diversity and inclusion. Pursuing this commitment is highly complex and contentious given the traditions of exclusion elite schools are founded upon. This paper examines some of these contentions drawing on research conducted at Cherry Tree Academy, an elite pre-K-12…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Race, Equal Education
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
For far too long, the United States has neglected and wasted an enormous amount of human potential--much of it among groups that have never been given the opportunities they deserve. We're talking about bright students, advanced learners, striving pupils, and those with high but untapped potential--especially those who are Black, Hispanic, Native…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Advanced Courses, Human Capital, Talent Development
Lu, Ying; Weinberg, Sharon L.; McCormick, Meghan – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
Using proprietary data collected prior to the establishment of the public Universal Prekindergarten program in New York City, this study finds statistically significant differences in test-taking rates for the city's Gifted & Talented (G & T) program between two matched samples of students--those who attended a public prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Correlation, Preschool Education, Kindergarten