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Lareau, Annette; Weininger, Elliot; Cox, Amanda – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Most research on "elite" schools has focused on the private sector. However, as a result of economic residential segregation, a number of public school districts exist which may plausibly be construed as socioeconomically elite. Districts of this sort remain relatively understudied. In particular, few researchers have…
Descriptors: School Districts, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, High Schools
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Milne, Emily; Aurini, Janice – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2017
This study examines how staff working for one Ontario school board perceive two distinct approaches to school discipline policy: the Safe Schools Act (Bill 81) and Progressive Discipline and School Safety (Bill 212). The more centrally controlled and rigid Safe Schools Act was criticized by interviewees and cited for human rights violations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Case Studies, Discipline Policy
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Saultz, Andrew – Peabody Journal of Education, 2017
In 2011, Washington was one of only eight states that did not have a charter school law in state policy heading into the Race to the Top (RTTT) competition. The RTTT competition incentivized local education agencies not only to allow charter schools, but also to increase or eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools that a state allowed to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Policy, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Gibbons, Lynsey K.; Cobb, Paul – Elementary School Journal, 2016
Many districts are using content-focused coaching as a strategy to provide job-embedded support to teachers. However, the current coaching literature provides little guidance on what coaches need to know and be able to do to engage teachers in activities that will support their development of ambitious instructional practices. Furthermore, little…
Descriptors: School Districts, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Heffernan, Amanda – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Australia's schooling systems, like many around the globe, are currently pursuing a 'school improvement' policy agenda. Schools, and school leaders, are under pressure to improve student achievement as measured through high-stakes testing, the results of which are often publicised with little contextual information attached. Research has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
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Park, Vicki; Datnow, Amanda – American Journal of Education, 2017
Despite data-driven decision making being a ubiquitous part of policy and school reform efforts, little is known about how teachers use data for instructional decision making. Drawing on data from a qualitative case study of four elementary schools, we examine the logic and patterns of teacher decision making about differentiation and ability…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Individualized Instruction, Data, Decision Making
Atkins, Kemal M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Crisis management is a critical issue facing higher education. Higher education leaders and campus safety advocates agree that the Virginia Tech massacre changed perceptions and approaches to campus safety at colleges and universities nationally. In the University of North Carolina System, it was the two murders of University of North Carolina at…
Descriptors: School Safety, Crisis Management, Violence, Homicide
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Shields, Timothy D. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2016
The Fair Use exemption to copyright infringement is a difficult concept for those within the legal community because of its unique "case-by-case" application. Without any red line rules, providing guidance to typical users is even more challenging. This paper reviews several recent cases regarding the application of Fair Use and how the…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Court Litigation, Legal Responsibility, Federal Legislation
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Dirks, Doris Andrea – Review of Higher Education, 2016
This article examines the language used to discuss transgender people on university campuses. This study asks how, despite seemingly benefitting transgender people, the discourses carried by the documents that discuss trans people may actually undermine the intended goals of policy initiatives. For example, a report on the status of transgender…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, College Students, School Policy, Language Usage
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Asada, Yuka; Hughes, Alejandro; Chriqui, Jamie – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Background: Recent federal policies aimed to ensure that all children have equitable access to healthy school nutrition environments. However, historically, disparities have persisted in the quality of school nutrition environments across geographic and socioeconomic groups. There is limited literature addressing if and how recent efforts to…
Descriptors: School Policy, Nutrition, Qualitative Research, Health Promotion
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Reindl, Diana; Glassman, Tavis; Price, James; Dake, Joseph; Yingling, Faith – Journal of American College Health, 2014
Objective: To identify college presidents' support for tobacco-free campus policies (TFCP), perceived barriers and benefits to implementing such policies, and activities that might initiate policy adoption. Participants: Participants were 405 presidents (51% of 796 delivered surveys) from a national sample of eligible 4-year institutions in…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Smoking, School Policy, Campuses
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Hammons, James O.; Orf, Michael A. – Community College Enterprise, 2016
This study aimed: (a) to determine the prevalence of faculty rank among two-year colleges in the United States; (b) to identify the criteria used to determine faculty rank upon initial employment for transfer and vocational faculty; (c) to identify the criteria used to determine promotion for transfer and vocational faculty; and (d) to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Two Year Colleges, Teacher Promotion
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Myende, Phumlani Erasmus; Samuel, Michael Anthony; Pillay, Ansurie – South African Journal of Education, 2018
Research studies on financial management in South African public schools expands recurrent literature, most of which have largely pathologised school leadership and management, and rural schools in particular. This article instead draws from a qualitative case study of success, which examined how five novice principals in a rural setting went…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Public Schools, Case Studies
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Netshitangani, Tshilidzi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the reduction of school violence from the management point of view. It reflects on the utterances by teachers, principals, learners and members of school governing bodies (SGBs) to establish the influence that school management practices can have on the prevalence of school violence.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Leadership Responsibility, Teacher Attitudes
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Alborno, Nadera Emran – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
The Ministry of Education (MOE) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched the "School for All" inclusive education initiative in 2010. This article investigates the implementation of this initiative in three primary schools from stakeholders' perspectives. Using a multiple case study approach, data were collected over a full school year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Disabilities, Elementary Schools
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