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Ryan Kerr – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the ways that school policies are understood and taken up by teachers. A review of the relevant literature suggests that much school policy, even that which is explicitly designed to ameliorate inequities that exist within schools and school systems, often have an inverse effect. It is also established that teachers, for many…
Descriptors: School Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices, Professional Identity
Cynthia A. Waldeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this comparative case study was to understand the creation and implementation of the medical withdrawal policy and differences of the return from withdrawal policies in the University State System in the context of students with severe and persistent mental illness. This study focused on two specific institutions in the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Withdrawal (Education), Mental Health, Comparative Analysis
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj; Ayesha K. Hashim – Journal of School Choice, 2024
Some school districts have centralized school operations as a means to ensure universal access to schools of choice. Yet, centralization can infringe on charter school autonomy. We explore how district and charter school leaders in three contexts perceive and negotiate the trade-offs between centralized versus school-based autonomy. We find that…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Institutional Autonomy, Consolidated Schools, Student Transportation
Christin Rickman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the landmark case Larry P. v. Riles and its impact on addressing the disproportionality and overrepresentation of Black and/or African American students in special education within California. Despite the court's ruling, which prohibited the use of IQ tests for Black students for special education placement due to…
Descriptors: Special Education, African American Students, Racial Discrimination, Alternative Assessment
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Martinez, Magdalena; Henkle, Jason – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This article examines how university presidents who led their institutions to achieve Carnegie "R1 Highest Research Activity" managed policy tensions created by prestige priorities and worked with groups and coalitions internally and externally. Striving to achieve R1 status requires U.S. universities to re-calibrate their focus,…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Educational Policy, Entrepreneurship, Reputation
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Nengyanti; Imania, Katriza; Yusnaini; Santoso, Anang Dwi – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Indonesia's policy on preventing and responding to sexual abuse in universities is a difficult and confusing policy that attracts national and international attention, both inside and outside the universities. As university environment evolves, the requirement to comply with these regulations encourages institutions to confront sexual assault…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, School Policy, Prevention
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Quentin Maire – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
The advent of global citizenship agendas marks a transformation in citizenship education policy and practice internationally. However, research has revealed a highly diverse collection of visions and models for global citizenship. This article seeks to make two main contributions to the study of global citizenship in education. Empirically, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, School Policy
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Zhang, Mengqi; You, Zheng – European Journal of Education, 2022
This article presents two Chinese international branch campuses located in Europe as cases. Semi-structured interviews and document analysis were undertaken to clarify the motivations of establishing international branch campuses, their governance models, and operational challenges. We found that authorities' regulatory policies and public norms…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Foreign Countries, Motivation, Global Approach
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Ian Hardy – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
This article utilises recent Australian schooling policies and associated international educational policies as a stimulus to reflect on the extent to which schooling provides genuinely 'educational' opportunities for students. To do so, the article draws upon Gert Biesta's notion of the 'risk' of education to analyse the extent to which recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Risk, Educational Opportunities
Alejandra Miranda; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025
This report is focused on the uptake of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) subjects in England in 2023. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Exit Examinations, Data Analysis
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Brooke E. DeSipio; Christina Pallotti – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
To address sexual assault on college campuses, many universities have adopted affirmative consent. Despite the adoption of these policies, there has been little research understanding the nuances of sexual consent. Drawing from sexual script theory, this study uses qualitative methodology to explore how college students understand sexual consent.…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Rape, College Students, School Policy
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Blerina Rusiti; Simone Gad Kjeld; Susan Andersen; Lotus Sofie Bast; Dina Danielsen – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: In Denmark, more students smoke in vocational schools than in upper secondary schools. Smoking-prevention initiatives may reduce the prevalence of smoking but may also introduce unforeseen challenges. This study examined the significance of smoking and dilemmas related to smokefree school hours (SFSH) among established smokers in Danish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Smoking, Prevention
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Ginny Chadwick; Page D. Dobbs; Kathryn Gluesenkamp; Delanie Vinzant; Kevin D. Everett – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To develop an instrument to examine tobacco-free campus policy components. Participants: Missouri two- and four-year, specialized/technical, and religious colleges and universities (N = 76). Methods: The instrument was informed via literature review and expert interviews. Coder agreement was strong ([kappa] = 0.80). Qualitative policy…
Descriptors: Smoking, School Policy, Colleges, College Environment
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Dorah Ataphia Akporehe; Osiobe Comfort; Blessing Egoh – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Policy implementation has presented the Nigerian educational system with countless obstacles cum problems. This research explored the principles and problems of policy implementation reconsiderations for effective secondary school administration. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The study population was 286 principals. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Policy
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Wessam Mohamed; Taghreed Almuqayteeb; Ibrahim Abd El Sattar; Taghreed Al-Ghamdi; Ghazi Alotaibi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the best practices to institutionalize the internal quality of student assessment (SA) when a gap emerges between quality conceptualization and practice work, using Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University (IAU) as a case study. Design/methodology/approach: A single-embedded case study research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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