The purpose of this article is to report the findings of a systematic review of school leadership and gender in Africa, and to identify gaps in the literature, to prompt and encourage further research. The literature search focused on school leadership and gender, linked to all 54 African countries. The review focused on articles in non-predatory…

Teacher hiring is a critical lever for improving school outcomes. However, the availability of supply is a significant barrier that affects principals' processes for teacher staffing. Drawing on sensemaking theory and concepts of fit, this study investigates how principals make sense of recruitment and hiring in a local labor market with severe…

Since the mid-2010s, Czech Republic has been implementing inclusive education measures on a wide scale. Five stages of supportive measures have been introduced, including the assignment of teaching assistants (TAs) for students with special educational needs. In the four years since the main reform, the assignment of TAs has become the most…

The research explores why some public affairs graduate programs choose to develop fully online degree offerings while others do not. The study attempts to address questions surrounding how different institutions and programs are pursuing degree offerings and the potential influence of faculty workload. The research utilizes a quantitative,…

Higher education endowments are an indispensable resource for covering escalating costs, strengthening financial resilience, supporting important campus initiatives, providing financial aid to students, and keeping higher education affordable. Because of the importance of these assets in the revenue mix, the work of college or university…

As a provision of the Read by Grade Three law in Michigan, the state legislature appropriated funds through Section 35a of the State School Aid Code to assist Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) with employing early literacy coaches. Section 35a also provides funding to the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Early Literacy…

As a provision of the Read by Grade Three law in Michigan, the state legislature appropriated funds through Section 35a of the State School Aid Code to assist Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) with employing early literacy coaches. Section 35a also provides funding to the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Early Literacy…

As a provision of the Read by Grade Three law in Michigan, the state legislature appropriated funds through Section 35a of the State School Aid Code to assist Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) with employing early literacy coaches. Section 35a also provides funding to the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Early Literacy…

As a provision of the Read by Grade Three law in Michigan, the state legislature appropriated funds through Section 35a of the State School Aid Code to assist Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) with employing early literacy coaches. Section 35a also provides funding to the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Early Literacy…

This dissertation-in-practice (DIP) outlines a quantitative cross-sectional exploratory pilot study on the topic of interviewer gender identity and job applicant evaluation. Through the introduction of the topic, review of literature, and methodology, the real-world relevance and challenges surrounding equal-opportunity employment for women in the…

Healthy and effective faculty members are vital to student learning and ultimately to institutional effectiveness (Finkelstein et al., 2016; Y. K. Kim & Sax, 2017), yet recent challenges and changes to higher education have significantly affected the faculty role and faculty well-being, resulting in increased dissatisfaction, stress, and…

African American school psychologists are very much underrepresented in school psychology; over 85% of school psychologists who completed the 2020 National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) membership survey were White, while just 3.9% of members identified as Black or African American (Goforth et al., 2021). This represented a slight…

Women and people of colour are underrepresented in physics in many parts of the world, to the detriment of the field. How do academics' beliefs about the role of 'brilliance' in career success contribute to these representation gaps, and what can be done to address them?

With the increasing global interest in preparing school headteachers over the past two decades, educational systems have developed numerous means by which aspiring headteachers are prepared for the role. Reflecting this global trend, local governments in Taiwan have launched a new type of headship preparation approach, namely, the aspiring…

This paper examined the actual circumstances of the recent teacher shortage in public elementary and junior high schools in X Prefecture. Although teacher shortages had been reported, few previous studies had investigated them empirically. With the cooperation of all five branch offices of the Board of Education, data were collected through three…