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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Corbin High School is located in a small, rural community of approximately 8,000 residents in southeastern Kentucky, midway between Lexington and Knoxville, Tennessee. The mission of Corbin High School is to provide opportunities that will help each student prepare for a successful transition to college, the workplace and life. This report…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, High Schools, Rural Schools
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Kracke, Nancy – Journal of School Public Relations, 2009
It is tempting to assume that we know what our parents, our community, and our employees want from our schools. It is comforting to think that we know what they support. It is also dangerous. This article encourages school systems to let go of assumptions and to start asking the important questions that will lead school boards and administrators…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, School Districts, Information Sources, Stakeholders
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Li, David C. S. – AILA Review, 2009
Despite the Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) government's determination to implement the "mother tongue education" policy amid strong social resistance one year after the handover, English remains a prestigious language in society. The need for Putonghua (Mandarin/Standard Chinese) is also increasing following ever-expanding…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
NCSSSMST Journal, 2009
Keystone Science School and Keystone Center for Science and Public Policy programs blend learning in the natural world with developing mediation and conflict resolution skills. Since 2004, these two divisions of The Keystone Center in Colorado have partnered with the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and…
Descriptors: Fuels, Obesity, Conflict Resolution, Consortia
Menon, Siddhartha Shankar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Broadband holds a critical position in the progress of economic and social indicators by connecting consumers, businesses and governments. South Korea has consistently been the global leader in broadband deployment since 1999. In the last ten years the Korean government has pursued several strategies for its broadband policy. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Social Indicators, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Hohenthal, K. Darcy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Bolman and Deal (2003) Four-Frame Model was adapted in this qualitative phenomenological research study to describe how stakeholders experience student service-learning. The study presents how students perceive the positive benefits and critical challenges encountered in their service-learning experience; how professors perceive the positive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Assignments, Student Attitudes, Service Learning
US Department of Education, 2010
This report presents the Administration's National Education Technology Plan. This plan calls for applying the advanced technologies used in everyone's daily personal and professional lives to the entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Technology Planning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Technology
Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Slater, Doug – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2010
Launched in 2003, "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count" is a multiyear national initiative designed to improve educational outcomes for community college students, particularly students of color and low-income students. Supported by Lumina Foundation for Education and other funders, the initiative has grown to include 98…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, National Programs, Educational Change, School Readiness
Rosenkvist, Morten A. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning using student test results in OECD countries. Initially the report provides an overview of how student test results are reported in OECD countries and how stakeholders in these countries use and perceive of the results. The report then reviews the literature relating to using student test…
Descriptors: Test Results, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Literature Reviews
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
State education data systems have often been described as data rich but information poor. Historically, these systems were created for compliance purposes and, therefore, designed and managed as information technology projects, but a culture change is under way. Educators and other stakeholders are beginning to value data as a tool to inform…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Needs, Stakeholders, Data Collection
Adamson, Lena; Becerro, Maria; Cullen, Peter; Gonzalez-Vega, Laureano; Sobrino, Juan Jose; Ryan, Norma – ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), 2010
Learning outcomes are described as written statements of what a learner is expected to know, understand and/or be able to do at the end of a period of learning. At the beginning of the 90s, a EU pilot project on ECTS showed that study programmes were much easier to compare if they were described in terms of outcomes, instead of inputs. The…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Stakeholders, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
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Cumming, Jim – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
In Australia, as in the UK, much of the skills debate in research education has reflected a deficit model, whereby candidates are deemed to be in need of supplementary training. In response to the demands of employers and governments, most universities have added employability skills to postgraduate curricula, while simultaneously boosting their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Graduate Study, Research
Desmond, Snoeks, Ed.; Elfert, Maren, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2008
Family literacy is a form of intergenerational learning that is based on the fundamental connection and interaction between the education of children, young people and adults. The family--in its broader sense--builds the foundation for lifelong learning. This book was published to help promote literacy by raising the understanding and awareness of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Adult Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Community Education
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Wright, Michael D.; Washer, Barton A.; Watkins, Larae; Scott, Donald G. – Journal of Technology Education, 2008
Akmal et al. (2002) and Sanders (2001) acknowledged the 100-year debate on the purpose[s] of technology education (TE) and its debatable ties to industrial arts. The debate has been further fueled by the fact most states classify TE as career and technical education. However, some of these states allow Carl D. Perkins federal funding to support TE…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Technology Education, Stakeholders, Educational Assessment
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Meyer, M. H.; Bushney, M. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
A multi-stakeholder-driven model for excellence in higher education curriculum development has been developed. It is based on the assumption that current efforts to curriculum development take place within a framework of limited stakeholder consultation. A total of 18 multiple stakeholders are identified, including learners, alumni, government,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Management Systems, Stakeholders
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