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Education policies for gender equity: Probing into state responses 26 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
The implementation of non-discriminatory sex legislation provides theoretical and empirical grounds to examine responses by the state to gender equality. Tracing the trajectory of one such law in the ...
How Universities Work: Understanding Higher Education Organization in Northwest China 19 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
This study explores models of educational management used in postsecondary institutions in the five northwestern provinces of the People’s Republic of China (Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, and Nin...
School autonomy in Portugal: The case of the educational community in Algoz – Silves 12 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
Promulgated in 1976, the autonomy of the Portuguese education system has experienced many ups and downs ever since. Nowadays, in the context of the economic crisis, we are witnessing an orientation to...
Why do policy leaders adopt global education reforms? A political analysis of SBM reform adoption in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 Aug 2013 | 03:46 am
This paper presents a political analysis of school-based management reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). School-based management (SBM), based on the principle of school autonomy and community parti...
Addressing the inclusion imperative: an urban school district’s responses 28 Jul 2013 | 05:49 pm
Over the past forty years, schools across the United States have become more inclusive for students with disabilities. However, in many high-poverty urban school districts, a disproportionate number ...
El significado de estudiar para los jóvenes de bachillerato 22 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
El En el año 2008, en México se implantó la Reforma Integral de la Educación Media Superior. En este artículo utilizamos como estrategia metodológica un estudio de caso para analizar, en el marco de e...
Significant Trends in the Development of Finnish Teacher Training Education Programs (1860-2010) 14 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
The roots of teacher training in Finland extend to the 1860s. The evolution of teacher training was closely connected to the history of elementary education and changes in educational policy and the F...
Public entrepreneurs and the adoption of broad-based merit aid beyond the Southeastern United States 8 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
The concentration of broad-based merit aid adoption in the southeastern United States has been well noted in the literature. However, there are states that have adopted broad-based merit aid programs ...
The transformative potential of boundary spanners: a narrative inquiry into preservice teacher education and professional development in an NCLB-impac... 30 Jun 2013 | 07:34 am
This narrative inquiry uses pedagogic discourse theory and organization theory to frame pre-service teacher education and in-service professional development initiatives in a school district facing te...
Assessing Pre-service Teachers Prior to Certification: Perspectives on the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) 30 Jun 2013 | 07:31 am
This study focuses on pre-service teachers’ perspectives regarding how the process of completing the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) affected them academically, professionally, a...
