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Kimberly A. Rode – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduating from high school is an important step toward becoming a successful adult. It is evidence that one has met the standards set by the public school system. Standards-Based Reform has been pursued since the 1980s and culminated in the development of the Common Core State Standards that were implemented by most states between 2011 and 2015.…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Equal Education
Dawn Reid – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advocates for marginalized students have worked to understand the equity implications of public policy and its application on educational performance gaps. This study investigated equity policies in a southern California community college intervention program: the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS). EOPS is an equity program created…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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Yiting Chu – Multicultural Perspectives, 2024
This narrative study examines Asian (American) educators' motivations to become teachers. Adopting tenets of the Asian Critical Theory, findings suggest that participants attribute their initial interests in teaching to their inequitable schooling experiences characterized by Asian (American) marginalization and misrepresentation. They are thus…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Career Choice
Jessica D. Huffman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Community Colleges have an open-door policy that publicly states all are welcome but after acceptance, the student encounters the hidden locked door of placement testing. For some students, placement testing is the key that unlocks the door and provides them access to their path toward their academic journey. But for most students, placement…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Student Placement, Placement Tests
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Matthew Berman; Dayna Jean DeFeo – Educational Policy, 2024
Measuring the appropriate level of teacher compensation for different working conditions requires overcoming a number of empirical challenges, including defining and measuring differences in qualifications, effects of non-wage compensation, financial constraints, and lack of market clearing. We address those challenges in a study of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Qualifications
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Veronico N. Tarrayo; Rafaella R. Potestades – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Efforts to promote gender equality/equity in education have received much focus in recent decades. The area of English language teaching (ELT) has contributed to this development by emphasizing gender concerns. However, the views of LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other genders) educators are often…
Descriptors: Equal Education, LGBTQ People, Teacher Characteristics, Diversity (Faculty)
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Roberto S. de Roock; Darlene Machell de Leon Espeña; Sasha Raj Lawrence – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
This article overviews the realities of so-called "low achieving" students in Singapore, efforts to support them better, and the place of educational technology in this support. We undertook a comparative case study of lower tracked Normal Technical (NT) secondary school students and their teachers in two schools in Singapore. We found a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Kelly León; Paul M. Rogers; Reyes L. Quezada; Sobeida Velázquez – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
Social-justice teacher education literature is widespread, but research highlighting the perspectives and insights from those who lead is far less common. This interview-based case-study of 20 deans from the Schools of Education across the United States addresses this gap and explores insights that pertain to the leadership and implementation of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education, Deans, Schools of Education
John P. Iorio Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study examines equity in the Central City School District's (CCSD) AHSEP Youth HSE program referral process. Through an equity audit and interviews with educational leaders, the research identifies systemic barriers, including inconsistent referral practices, limited communication, and inequitable access to support services. These…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Guided Pathways, Youth Programs, Barriers
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Marta Estellés; John O'Neill – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
In this article, we continue Martin Thrupp's critical work in education policy in Aotearoa New Zealand by examining the policies of the Sixth Labour-led Government (2017--2023) and the Sixth National-led Government (2023-present). We consider their attempts to mitigate social injustice via education policy and the social imaginaries that underpin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Policy, Educational History
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Sarah Lavan; Lindsay Malone; Rosalind Threadgold – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
This practice-based paper provides a case study of the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board's (WWETB) Rainbow Connection Initiative. The initiative employs badges as a visible symbol of inclusivity and staff commitment, actively seeking to address issues and challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Barriers, Minority Group Students, Adult Education
Del Siegle; Talbot S. Hook; Kenneth J. Wright – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
What are the key challenges facing the field of gifted education? In this qualitative study, we posed this question to some of the field's eminent leaders and scholars. Overwhelmingly, our respondents mentioned problems of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). Respondents also discussed problems concerning identification, the…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Barriers, Diversity, Equal Education
Wafa Alnasser – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As schools shift towards online and hybrid educational models, they increasingly rely on existing and emerging technologies to facilitate their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic required elementary schools to shift to online and virtual instruction. Current literature frequently has examined these issues from a technical perspective and at the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Barriers, Electronic Learning
Jenna Duncan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Americans pursue college degrees with hopes that this achievement will open doors and create opportunities for life- and family-sustaining, professional employment. But due to systemic barriers, institutionalized racism and intentional denial and exclusion of women of color, many would-be graduates are still denied access to a college degree…
Descriptors: African American Students, Blacks, Females, Womens Education
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Sachin Maharaj; Stephanie Tuters; Vidya Shah – Critical Education, 2024
Across Canada, school districts have been confronting a backlash to their equity and social justice initiatives. Critics of public education have been arguing that the solution to these controversies is to increase school choice. Using several examples from the United States, this paper argues that the endgame of these strategies is to undermine…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, School Choice, Private Schools, Public Education
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