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Rich, Wesley Dowless – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative action research study investigates the common barriers encountered by successful undergraduate ethnic minority students enrolled in majors that serve as a pipeline for professional health sciences. Through specialized focus group interviews and individual interviews, this study explores the perceived barriers to student success…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, School Holding Power, Action Research, Focus Groups
Warschauer, Mark; Matuchniak, Tina – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In this chapter, the authors take a broad perspective on how to analyze issues of technology and equity for youth in the United States. They begin with "access" as a starting point, but consider not only whether diverse groups of youth have digital media available to them but also how that access is supported or constrained by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Access to Computers, Computer Science Education
Smith, Sandra Covington; Bost, Loujeania Williams – National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, 2007
As states grapple with collecting post-school outcome data, many are seeking guidance on strategies for improving response rates, especially for students who exit school early and informally by dropping out. This practice brief is intended for state and local education agency personnel charged with designing systems to collect post-school outcome…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Outcomes of Education, Test Construction, Disabilities
Stanton, Geoff; David, Miriam; Hall, Geoff; Brown, Richard; Ebdon, Les; Kendall, Steve; Watters, Kate – Learning and Skills Network (NJ3), 2008
Over a decade has gone by since the report of the Widening Participation Committee--"Learning works"--was presented to the Further Education Funding Council. Ten years on, this report asks how far have we come in the decade since "Learning works"? What progress have we made? And what barriers have we yet to overcome? Bringing…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Access to Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
Abosi, Okey; Koay, Teng Leong – International Journal of Special Education, 2008
Education has three main roles: it is developmental because it develops the unique qualities of a child; it differentiates between learners because it treats every child as an individual, appreciating individual differences; and it is integrative because it accommodates people of varying backgrounds (culture, beliefs and values) thereby allowing…
Descriptors: Play, Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Social Values
Goode, Jackie – Disability & Society, 2007
Recent UK legislation, operational from December 2006, places a duty on all public authorities, including higher education institutions, to actively promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities. The university studied here has a number of initiatives in place to develop good practice in this area, but how do students themselves…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation
Chang, Chen-Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In this dissertation, I study how Taiwanese vocational students as an oppressed group within the higher education system perceive, interpret, adapt or resist, and struggle to change the inequitable social structure. The theoretical framework in this research is constructed from Paulo Freire's ideas in "Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Two Year College Students, Vocational Education, Higher Education
McOuat, Robert C. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2008
A qualitative case study design was used to investigate the extent that special education program serves the student or serves the organization. If special education serves the student, then a researcher should be able to identify resulting agency and emancipation among the students. However, if special education is serving the organization, then…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers
Sedwal, Mona; Kamat, Sangeeta – Online Submission, 2008
The Scheduled Castes (SCs, also known as Dalits) and Scheduled Tribes (STs, also known as Adivasis) are among the most socially and educationally disadvantaged groups in India. This paper examines issues concerning school access and equity for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities and also highlights their unique problems, which may…
Descriptors: Social Class, Elementary Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Role of Education
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2008
In 2005, the Stuart Foundation funded two of its grantees--the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning and Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.--to both model and achieve greater collaboration between the public education and child welfare sectors. The two organizations share a philosophical commitment to narrowing the profound gaps…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Focus Groups, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Phadraig, Brian MacGiolla – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
This article traces the development of policy in regard to the provision for children with special educational needs from the report of the Special Education Review Committee in 1993 to the enactment of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act in 2004. It begins with definitions of the terms special educational needs and pupils…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
US Government Accountability Office, 2009
Research suggests that more students with disabilities are pursuing higher education than in years past, and recent legislative changes, such as those in the Higher Education Opportunity Act and Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, have the potential to increase the number and diversity of this population. GAO was asked to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Disabilities, Technical Assistance, Special Needs Students
Rodriguez, Gloria M.; Cruz, Lisceth – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The analysis contained in this article was commissioned by the Social Science Research Council's Transitions to College project. Although the historical context and contemporary issues associated with English learners (ELs) and undocumented immigrant students are in many ways distinct, the project team strongly believed that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Attainment, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness
du Plessis, Pierre; Conley, Lloyd; Loock, Coert – Educational Research and Reviews, 2007
The Constitution provides the ground rules to create obligations on the state and to transform the education system by introducing human rights in line with the best developed democracies. This article is not about state-compelled school attendance, but rather the observe: the right to attend school. So while the right to attend school is part of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Legislation
Naicker, Sigamoney – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2007
The advent of a democracy in South Africa ushered in refreshing changes within the South African context. Given South Africa's dark apartheid history, every policy intervention had to ensure a human rights ethos prevails. Inclusive Education, through the publication of the policy document Education White Paper 6 on Special Needs Education:…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Democracy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries