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Direct linkKoo, Anita – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
The rise of China as the world factory in the last few decades has been accompanied by a rapid expansion in vocational education. A growing number of youth from rural backgrounds now have the chance to receive post-compulsory education in vocational training schools. Using human capital theory as an analytical focus, this study examines their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Neoliberalism, Psychological Patterns
Kaplowitz, Tracy – Journal of Jewish Education, 2015
The context for this study is the increased focus on school-community partnerships in the United States. With limited research having been conducted on high-achieving schools, this is a case study of one of America's top 100 high schools, a Jewish day school; this article reports on its school-synagogue partnership. Like most research on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Jews, Judaism, Day Schools
Download full textTennessee Department of Education, 2013
Across Tennessee, student test scores have risen steadily in every subject since tests were revised in 2009-10, so that nearly 91,000 additional students are performing at grade level in math and nearly 52,000 additional students are performing at grade level in science. This report focuses on some of the schools that are making this possible.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Cervantez, Sammie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceived changes in cultural, human, and social capital as a result of professional development. Research in the area of effective professional development is substantial. Similarly, the body of research on cultural, human, and social networks is extensive. This research is significant in…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Case Studies, Human Capital, Teacher Attitudes
Marling, David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Native American Nations have perpetually had the highest rates of poverty and unemployment and the lowest per capita income of any ethnic population in the United States. Additionally, American Indian students have the highest high school dropout rates and lowest academic performance rates as well as the lowest college admission and retention…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Paying for College, Poverty, Unemployment
Mushkin, Selma J., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
In the past few years an important beginning has been made toward defining and exploring the major issues in the economics of higher education. The research of economists covers a wide range of problems, from that of the Nation's requirements for college-trained people, to detailed questions of financing. Perhaps no single area of this work offers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Economics, Higher Education
