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Emily Markovich Morris; Laura Nóra; Richaa Hoysala, Contributor; Max Lieblich, Contributor; Sophie Partington, Contributor; Rebecca Winthrop, Contributor – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2024
This report is the result of the participation of hundreds of students, families, school educators, and researchers who dedicated their time and energy to investigating the critical role that families and communities play in ensuring students and schools can flourish. It is a culmination of over two years of collaborative research and hundreds of…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Educational Researchers, Academic Achievement
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Nivedita N – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
The article explores the distinct upward social mobility trajectories of six high-achieving Dalit women in government services in Chennai in south India. Their mobility, primarily driven by education, makes them a very 'select' group given the larger relatively abysmal social, educational and occupational inequality of the Dalits as minority caste…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Females, Educational Mobility
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Thilanka Juliyabadu Gunathilake; Kelly-Ann Allen; Emily Berger; Fiona May; Christine Grove; Lefteris Patlamazoglou; Gerald Wurf; Nicholas Gamble; William Warton; Andrea Reupert – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Students' sense of school belonging is associated with healthier psychological functioning and improved academic outcomes. Currently, most research on school belonging has been conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, resulting in school belonging practices and interventions largely biased towards Western school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Sense of Community, Student School Relationship
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Anagha M. Nambisan; Shailja Rana – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
Academic compliance is originally an externally handled action, which means that students tend to follow the directions provided to them by various authorities such as teachers, administration, and so forth. Modern trends in education are based on the principal assumption that students can make choices that are in their best interest. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compliance (Psychology), Student Empowerment, College Students
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Diane L. Lorenzetti; Liza Lorenzetti; Lorelli Nowell; Michele Jacobsen; Tracey Clancy; Georgina Freeman; Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci – Journal of International Students, 2023
As the number of international students in higher education continues to grow, so do concerns regarding systemic obstacles, discrimination, and social isolation that can impede students' academic success. Peer mentorship has been shown to support graduate students through academic socialization and achievement in higher education (Lorenzetti et…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Student Experience, Peer Relationship
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Maheshwari, Saurabh; Mukherjee, Tuheena – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
The debate on the positive and negative impact of Facebook on youth particularly on their academic performance has become prevalent in academic discourses. The previous studies show mixed findings of the effect of Facebook on academic performance as well as on other education-related variables. Though the role of Facebook in academics is well…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Peer Acceptance, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
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Panigrahi, Manas Ranjan – International Journal of Instruction, 2014
The study aims to investigate the relationship of School Effectiveness with regard to classroom teaching at primary level of education. The objectives of the study were to identify the more-effective and less-effective schools; to find out the differences between more-effective and less-effective schools in relation to physical facilities, Head…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Elementary Education
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2014
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2014 proceedings: (1) Legal Profession in the Technological Era with Special Reference to Women Lawyers in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Lawyers, Females
Roy, Prodipto; And Others – 1968
Under contract with the United States Agency for International Development and Michigan State University, a study was made comparing diffusion of innovations in Brazil, Nigeria, and India. In India, the study was in two phases: a survey of 108 villages in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal; and a study of adoption behavior among 680…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Production, Agriculture
Sharma, Satish – 1979
Two rural villages with similar characteristics were selected in Punjab (northern India) in order to study attitudes towards planned socio-economic development programs. All household heads (married males) in Bhagpura (123) and Khaira Bet (116) were interviewed; other data were derived separately. Program acceptance (modernism) in both villages…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Caste
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Cottom, Carolyn – Educational Leadership, 1996
The City Montessori School, a private, nonprofit school in Luchnow, India, provides an exemplary education for K-12 students by focusing on both academic excellence and children's emotional and spiritual well-being. Four building blocks (universal values, excellence, global understanding, and service) are guiding principles for educating the whole…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Altruism, Child Welfare, Citizenship Responsibility
Pillai, K. Sivadasan – 1978
An attempt to integrate socioeconomic development with literacy through nonformal education programs in Kerala, India, involved illiterate and semi-literate adults (1050 men, 450 women) in two pilot literacy projects organized by the Sanghom (library organization), Mitraniketan, and state government. Two literacy primers were developed, using an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Age Differences
Carron, Gabriel; Chau, Ta Ngoc – 1996
This report details a study combining qualitative and quantitative research tools to compare the functioning of schools in China, Guinea, India, and Mexico and in different development contexts within each country. The focus of the analysis was on the critical factors determining the quality of the interactive process taking place in schools, how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect