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Malcolm Tight – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
This article presents a literature review of published research focused on challenging cheating in higher education. A brief overview of the literature on cheating in higher education is offered, showing the global interest in the topic, the varied ways in which it has been defined, and evidence on its incidence and causes. The range of methods…
Descriptors: Cheating, Higher Education, Global Approach, Discipline Problems
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Lynch, Ingrid; Swartz, Sharlene; Isaacs, Dane – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Racism is a moral issue and of concern for moral educators, with recent social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter highlighting how far we are from obliterating racial oppression and the unearned privilege whiteness confers. To contribute to a more formalised approach to anti-racist moral education, this article systematically reviews 15 years of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Multicultural Education, Moral Development, Literature Reviews
Tanner, Julian – Education Canada, 2009
It is now over 10 years since the shootings at Columbine High School in April 1999. While Columbine was not the first school shooting in the United States, or the last, it remains the most important. For many people, but especially for parents, the name "Columbine" has become a one-word summation of fears and concerns about the condition…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Uniforms, Zero Tolerance Policy, Policy Analysis
Sloggett, Joel – School Business Affairs, 2009
Many school districts in North America have adopted policies to permit cameras on their properties and, when needed, on buses used to transport students. With regard to school buses, the camera is typically a tool for gathering information to monitor behavior or to help investigate a complaint about behavior. If a picture is worth a thousand…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Policy, Photography, Bus Transportation
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Pomerantz, Shauna – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007
In this article I explore the gendered assumptions in the new generation of dress codes that have swept through North American schools in response to how girls are dressing these days. Through a feminist poststructural examination of a particular case in Langley, British Columbia, I locate three contradictory discourses in one school's dress code…
Descriptors: Females, Dress Codes, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
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Pellegrini, Anthony D.; Bohn, Catherine M. – Educational Researcher, 2005
The authors suggest that the recess period serves a positive purpose in the primary school curriculum, counter to the current practice of minimizing recess in many schools across North America and the United Kingdom. The authors' position is embedded in the larger debate about school accountability; they argue that school policy should be based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, School Policy, Elementary Education