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Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world’s least developed countries. The country faces numerous social and health problems such as widespread household poverty and a high rate of HIV/AIDS infections, with severe consequences for children...
Teacher retention is an area of importance for school leaders. Attrition rates are especially high in international schools (Hayden & Thompson, 2008). School leaders working in small West African international schools (500 students or...
SES related differences in children’s early language skills influence their later language development. Parent-child verbal interactions during the initial years of children’s life play an important role in children’s early language...
Disparities in school discipline for Black students has been a problem for decades. The negative effects of exclusionary discipline have been well-documented. This problem must be addressed by educational stakeholders in order to take...
Data Driven Decision Making (DDDM) is the process of using assessment data to determine instruction in class. Contemporary use of DDDM has grown from the No Child Left Behind’s emphasis on using standardized testing results to measure...
Principals implement a variety of strategies to improve the quality of instruction within their school buildings. These strategies can range from teacher development to professional learning communities to teacher evaluation systems to...
Research finds that students with specific learning disabilities have disparate academic performance, increased amounts of grade retentions, increased health and behavioral problems, and lower chance of obtaining employment or attending...
Due to the greater attention on child-centered and creative pedagogies, the Reggio Emilia approach (REA) has become a famous and favored approach worldwide since 1991. More and more educators apply REA to foreign contexts and realize the...
Parental Leave and Primary School Academic Achievement: An Exploratory Comparative Study of National Policies and Their Relationships with Assessment Scores in Mathematics, Science, and Reading
This study used mixed methods to investigate the relationships between parental leave policy components and academic achievement measured by TIMSS and PIRLS. Qualitative document analysis was used to analyze the policy documents and...
The shift from the traditional self-contained classroom to the departmentalized classroom structure in upper-elementary classrooms is increasing as the stakes are higher than ever for public schools. Teachers prefer departmentalization...
Only 11% of students who are Pell-eligible and the first in their family to attend college graduate with a bachelor's degree. Upward Bound is a federal-funded project that seeks to 1) improve the motivation and skills of disadvantaged...
The role that high schools play in the preparation of college students has long been under debate. There are differing perspectives presented by those who make up the secondary and post-secondary systems. However, the most critical voice...
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