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Beck, Jori S.; Hinton, KaaVonia; Butler, Brandon M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Teacher leadership recently has gained prominence as an important method for school improvement and reform, yet the ranks of teacher leaders do not match the racial and ethnic diversity of the students they serve. Jori S. Beck, KaaVonia Hinton, and Brandon M. Butler conducted a study of teacher leadership that garnered almost 800 survey responses…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Minority Group Teachers
Straw, Suzanne; Julius, Jenna; Faulkner-Ellis, Henry; Classick, Rachel; Keightley, Gillian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
Apprenticeships are a key training route to help young people enter the labour market and for upskilling existing workers. Apprenticeships also have the potential to act as a vehicle for social mobility for young people (SMC, 2020). Significant reforms have been introduced to the apprenticeship system over the last decade which have led to a…
Descriptors: Youth, Apprenticeships, Barriers, Youth Opportunities
Higher Education Policy Institute, 2022
In this collection, different experts from a range of backgrounds consider the current plan to defund many Business and Technician Education Councils (BTECs) and other popular Level 3 Applied General qualifications. Together, the chapters argue this could close off a useful and proven route for students from a wide range of backgrounds, including…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships
Jobs for the Future, 2022
The Framework is designed to support workforce boards in building regional data capacity to identify, coordinate, and track the impact of regional activities. In addition, the Framework outlines how workforce boards can strategically align to statewide goals focused on increasing equitable upward mobility. Demonstrating equitable economic growth…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Data Use, Economic Development
Webster, Dustin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Education is often portrayed as the means to provide economically disadvantaged students with opportunities for mobility in order to reduce the wealth and income gap. Achieving this goal is difficult and involves a number of costs and tradeoffs for poor students--costs and tradeoffs which are deemed acceptable only if mobility is successfully…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Outcomes of Education, Costs, Economically Disadvantaged
Thomas, Joshlyn D. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The representation of Black women in senior leadership positions within higher education hovers at a dismal 5.8% (Wilder et al., 2013). Though Black women's degree attainment has increased substantially in comparison to other racial groups (NCES, n.d.), they are not recruited and supported in these roles (Jackson & Harris, 2007), especially in…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, African Americans, College Administration, Gender Bias
Johnson, Kristy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Rural elementary teachers faced challenges to professional development which differed from their urban or suburban peers. With the increasing popularity of social media at the time of this study, rural elementary teachers had the opportunity to use social media to find and engage in professional development which might otherwise be unavailable to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Social Media, Faculty Development
Erica J. Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to describe special education teachers' use of technology pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic, how the technology and the COVID-19 pandemic factored in student performance, and differences in student performance pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions of the problem, purpose, research questions,…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Special Education, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19
Angela Atkinson Duina; Mella McCormick; Patrick Hartnett; Amy Johnson; Kristin Rogers – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2022
Each year, the Maine Education Policy Research Institute conducts policy research in select topic areas for the Maine Legislature's Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs. Ideas for studies are proposed in winter by a steering committee of education stakeholders, and final selections are made in late spring by the legislators. The issues that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Equal Education, Racial Relations, Influences
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Bogiannidis, Nikolaos; Southcott, Jane; Gindidis, Maria – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
In developed countries, digital technologies are disrupting every facet of students' lives. It is no longer an option to turn off devices and disconnect from the outside world at the school gate. Educators are struggling with the number of technologies being introduced and how to safely and effectively integrate these tools in classrooms that have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Technology
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Zvavahera, Promise; Chirima, Ngonidzashe Elizabeth – Perspectives in Education, 2023
This study sought to investigate the impact of COVID-19-induced flexible work arrangements (FWAs) on gender differences in research outputs during COVID-19. A mixed research methodology was used, focusing on higher learning institutions in Zimbabwe. Purposive sampling was applied to select 250 researchers from the 21 registered universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Bias, College Faculty
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Buchan, Jena; Pitcher, Christian; Pascoe, Deb; McGowan, Courtney; Clanchy, Kelly; Sealey, Rebecca – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
Support from industry professionals is essential to meet the increasing demand for high-quality work-integrated learning (WIL) that forms a core component of university curriculum in various health professions. This qualitative study used an online survey to investigate the current landscape of exercise science and physiology WIL opportunities in…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Exercise Physiology, Practicums, Supervisors
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Brewster, Barbara Jane; Miller, Tess – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
Competency in mathematics is needed to respond to the vast employment opportunities available in the STEM sectors. These employment opportunities all require basic foundational mathematics skills, yet there is a shortfall of mathematics abilities due, in-part, to mathematics anxiety. Mathematics anxiety can surface as fear and avoidance of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Anxiety, Intervention, Cognitive Processes
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Drange, Ida; Pietilä, Maria; Reisel, Liza; Silander, Charlotte – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Which gender equality measures do Nordic universities use, and to what extent are the measures effective in increasing the share of women in top academic positions? Based on theories that distinguish between actor and structure-oriented measures, and between strategies of inclusion and transformation, we identified four types of measures: career…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), College Faculty
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Rapp, Anna Cecilia; Knutas, Agneta – Educational Research, 2023
Background: Educational opportunities and access vary according to location. In rural areas, the cultural, social and material consequences for local communities depend on the nature and degree of support for rural schools. There is a need to understand more about how the organisation of vocational education and training (VET), and the activities…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Vocational Education, Rural Education, Access to Education
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