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Kretchmar, Kerry – Educational Forum, 2023
Parents make choices about their children's education within a neoliberal, racist system. Measurable metrics are used to evaluate school quality within a competitive, market-based system, yet those indicators often do not align with parents' definitions of a good school, and they obscure the role of race. This paper examines how white, privileged…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Whites, Advantaged, Decision Making
Alyssa Nguyen; Michelle White; Darla Cooper – RP Group, 2023
The California Community Colleges (CCC) Attendance Decisions Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall 2022. This survey was administered in late summer/early fall 2022 and included responses from all 116 CCC…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Decision Making
Mark Hatcher; Jasmine Howard; Jessica Mason; Rachel Blume; Victoria Salinas; Chelsea Hood; Kelle Parsons – American Institutes for Research, 2023
In this report, AIR shares an exploratory analysis of how the past and present experiences of adult learners of color shape their perceptions of college and decisions they make. Existing research highlights some common motivations, strengths, and barriers for adult learners (see, e.g., Patterson, 2018); however, it does not deeply explore the full…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Minority Group Students, College Enrollment, Decision Making
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Castro Olivo, Sara Maria; Ura, Sarah; dAbreu, Ana – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2022
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students face more complex social-emotional and socio-cultural challenges than their mainstream peers as part of their development and socialization in U.S. schools. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to be beneficial in the academic and social success of all students; however, limited…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, English Language Learners, Social Emotional Learning, Competence
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Melissa Abeyta – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2022
This qualitative study examined the experiences of formerly incarcerated students in community colleges. In this study, participants described how they made meaning of their postsecondary education experience through their decision to start college, the college preparation, and faculty interactions that collectively influenced their academic…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Community College Students, Postsecondary Education
Aldeman, Chad; Lewis, Brandon – Bellwether Education Partners, 2021
Do employees at public colleges and universities have better retirement benefits than K-12 employees? This is the central question in the new report "Choice and Quality Among Retirement Plans for Educators." To answer this question, we evaluate the quality of higher education and K-12 retirement plans using five key variables: (1)…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Fringe Benefits, Debt (Financial), Decision Making
John Aubrey Douglass – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Since establishing its first campus in 1868, the University of California (UC), California's land-grant university, developed into the nation's first multi-campus system in the United States, and is today widely recognized as the world's premier network of public research universities. This short essay provides an historical brief on the role that…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Development, Participative Decision Making, Governance
Guillem Belmar Viernes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a significant diaspora of Mixtec people residing along California's Central Coast, mostly working in the agricultural sector. The new realities in the diaspora have brought Mixtec varieties in contact in new contexts where they co-exist with other Mexican Indigenous languages, as well as with Spanish and English. We urgently need more…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Immigrants, American Indians
RP Group, 2024
The California Community Colleges (CCC) College Attendance Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall of 2023. This report summarizes the second administration of this survey in late summer/early fall 2023 and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Attendance, Community Colleges, College Choice
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Samuel, Michelle L. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
A common concern of faculty members is student evaluations of teaching scores. Many factors influence student evaluations of teaching including how the course is designed. This study investigated student evaluations of teaching across three pedagogical techniques: the traditional lecture (where lectures were not recorded), recorded lectures, and a…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Huguet, Alice; Coburn, Cynthia E.; Farrell, Caitlin C.; Kim, Debbie H.; Allen, Anna-Ruth – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
Using over 350 hours of observational data from district-level meetings, we investigate how leaders support their interpretations of problems and proposed solutions during closed-door negotiations around three policy decisions, and how they invoke race, class, and language in the process. District leaders primarily cite constraints from…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Instructional Leadership, Race
Darrick L. Rice – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe the perceived impact of Patterson's (2003) 7 servant leadership constructs on high school principals in establishing a culture of high performance. Methodology: The qualitative phenomenological study described the lived experiences of high school principals who lead…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness
Buckner-Capone, Anji – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Academic outcomes and health outcomes are interconnected and reciprocal and school climate has emerged as a way to capture some of this relationship. An increasing trend in education policy is using multiple measures of school success, including school climate, such as California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). As school climate evolves as…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Educational Environment
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Maaranen, Katriina; Afdal, Hilde Wågsås – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In this study, we explore teachers' professional space as an alternative to, and/or expansion of earlier conceptualizations of teacher autonomy. Professional space is here understood both as an objective space with e.g., physical, juridical, economic features, and as the teachers' subjective negotiation of this objective space, where teachers are…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Vanessa R. Mininger – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this instrumental case study, I investigated the factors leading to school administrators' high attrition rates at a small private Christian school in central California. Across the United States, only 35% of public school K-12 administrators had been at their school for more than two years as of 2019 (Levin & Bradley, 2019). According to…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Religious Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics
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