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Tiumeneva, Yu. A.; Kuzmina, Ju. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The PISA 2009 data (in reading) investigated the effectiveness of one year of schooling in seven countries: Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. We used an instrumental variable, which allowed us to estimate the effect of one year of schooling through the fuzzy method of regression discontinuity. The analysis was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Meyer, Elizabeth J.; Tilland-Stafford, Anika; Airton, Lee – Teachers College Record, 2016
Context: A growing body of work reflects the ways in which gender-creative and transgender students are ill-served by current social climates in the vast majority of public schools. Few studies have explored this topic from an educator's perspective. Purpose: This study was designed to develop a conception of the barriers and supports that exist…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Sexual Identity
Schwartz, Heather Lee – School Administrator, 2010
As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education. With a significant rural contingent, charter schools are no longer just an urban phenomenon. Partly in response to the growth in charter schools, Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education,…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts, Foreign Countries
Davies, Scott; Aurini, Janice – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Private tutoring is a growing industry that is being transformed by an evolution from "shadow education" provision into "learning center" franchises. Traditional shadow educators closely follow the school curriculum, offering short-term homework help and test preparation. Learning centers develop their own curricular and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Learning Centers (Classroom), Business
Brown, Dan – Education Canada, 2001
Canada's public schools may be neglecting average students by failing to give them the structure and care their parents think desirable. A "soft" form of school choice, such as British Columbia's traditional schools option, allows greater parental influence. As parents gain more influence in schools, they must take more responsibility…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Magnet Schools
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Khan, Sar B.; Traub, Ross E. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1980
Teachers conducting more open programs and/or teaching in architecturally open schools had significantly more positive attitudes towards education, teaching, pupils, and educational innovation than did teachers conducting less open programs and/or teaching in architecturally closed or partially closed schools. This apparently reflects more…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Educational Facilities Design, Interior Space, Job Satisfaction