After eight years of piloting, China's National Assessment of Education Quality (NAEQ) was administered for the first time in 2015. The NAEQ was introduced during the country's transition from exam-oriented to quality-oriented education. The public, in particular parents and students, were required to subscribe to this reorientation. To ensure…

Little is known about parents' perspectives on school-based bullying victimization of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in China. This study began by interviewing 16 parents about their experiences with their children (7 to 15 years old) at school in China under the inclusive education policy. Most of the parents' responses indicated…

Bilingual education is burgeoning in Asia, and most bilingual practices are impacted by national language policies. However, top-down policy implementation and bottom-up practices may spark mismatches, constraints, or possibilities. Taiwan was selected as a research context to investigate the perceptions of administrators and teachers (including…

Research has documented that service provision for English learners (ELs) with disabilities is a complicated endeavor in K-12 schools. Recent studies have examined how English language development and special education services are often in tension with one another, as logistical and ideological barriers hinder efforts in schools to provide these…

Antiblack geopolitics and educational policies continue to produce oppressive systems, making it difficult for educators to acknowledge Black families' actions as contributions to produce equitable education. Policy processes have the potential to transform oppressive systems of power. Conceptualizing policy as a practice of power permits local…

Statewide assessments in reading and math are required every year under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, at an annual expense of billions of taxpayer dollars. Analyzing 10 years of school-level results from public schools in two states-- Nebraska and Texas--we found that year-to-year correlations of schools' test scores were…

The notion of cultural capital, defined in its Arnoldian sense, of "the best that has been thought and said", has been at the centre of the Conservative government's education policy for the last few years in England. While it is clear that this version of cultural capital--different from the sense in which it was used by Pierre…

This study aims to investigate the views of active primary and secondary education teachers in Greece while implementing educational administration in the modern Greek school for issues related to multiculturalism and their intention to take an active role in co-shaping internal education policy, considering the country's centralized educational…

This paper examines the experiences of a group of 16- to 18-year-old students in two publicly funded London schools who did not conform to expectations and rejected university as a post-school destination. The students' experiences offer insights into how current Higher Education (HE) policy in England combined with a competitive school market…

Students designated as English learners (ELs) make up a substantial and growing portion of the K-12 population in the U.S., so all teachers should expect, at some point, to be teachers of language learners and will need to address the complexities of managing a multilingual classroom. This management is considered classroom-level educational…

In February 2018, the IIEP-UNESCO Office in Dakar, with the support of Agence Française de Développement, launched a programme to support the monitoring of education quality in sub-Saharan Africa. The programme's primary objective is to assist education authorities in diagnosing and regulating their practices across all levels, contributing to the…

This article examines documentation from a previously unpublished architectural survey of English comprehensive secondary school music classrooms, conducted between 1976 and 1978 by a team of Department of Education and Science architects led by David and Mary Medd on behalf of a Schools Council music curriculum research project directed by John…

This study explores the discourse about health promotion and the role of the teacher in Swedish upper secondary schools. The material consists of student health plans from schools and local authorities that were analysed using discourse analysis. The results show that health promotion is largely an empty or floating signifier. The teacher is…

This secondary data analysis of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS) examined math efficacy among 9th-grade students with disabilities (n = 2,065), as well as the instructional efficacy among the mathematics teachers to whom they were assigned (n = 1,478). Follow-up tests showed both positive and negative relationships between each of…

School choice is an umbrella term that describes an array of policies offering alternatives to publicly provided schools. Throughout the history of American education, various school choice policies have been devised to accomplish different goals. This paper focuses on New York City's high school choice policy through the empirical strategy of…