This article reinterprets Sauvé's typology of Environmental Education (EE) as an analytical framework to study the EE conceptions of 11 primary school teachers working in Monterrey, Mexico. Each teacher engaged in a sequence of three face-to-face semi-structured interviews that explored their ideas and teaching experiences in relation to EE.…

The mental health needs of school principals have been consistently overlooked in the field of educational leadership and in the preparation and professional development of principals. This mixed-method study compares rates of burnout and secondary trauma of principals in one urban school district along the U.S.-Mexico border with other…

Most teachers in Mexico are not experts on Information and Communication Technologies, some rural areas lack a good internet connectivity or even electricity. This context led us to determine: How can teachers keep the pace of educational leadership? and How they cope their teaching task with the COVID-19 pandemic? The sample included 329 teachers…

This chapter explores how systemic functional linguistics (SFL) can contribute to secondary teachers' effectiveness for teaching disciplinary literacies to refugee youth in the United States. The chapter describes the Milltown Multimodal/Multiliteracies (MMM) Collaborative, an SFL-based professional development partnership between a large public…

This report on "Responsive School Systems" constitutes the second of three thematic comparative reports bringing together findings from the OECD's School Resources Review. Evolving educational objectives, changing student needs and demographic developments require school systems to be highly responsive to new patterns of demand and adapt…

The overarching goal for American education under President Barack Obama has been to increase college enrollment and completion rates. The pressure to achieve this goal has been keenly felt in the postsecondary community, especially as federal and state funding have become increasingly tied to achieving higher college completion rates. Yet the…

The theoretical insight and ethnographic rigor of this collection of essays from participants at Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (DIE) of the National Polytechnic Institute about the role of the public school in Mexican social and political life promote understanding of educational processes in different contexts, including rural and…

Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual…